Food & Drink UPDATE 1:56 pm, May 2: Dueling Chips! This appears to be the real deal, as evidenced by actual potato chips and crazy-goopy confit. This one was sent in by Kevin Finn's daughter, who brought a real camera into play. Are we having fun yet? Is this like the Avignon pope? This second burger is the true monster we always believed it might be: insane vicosity and trashy crunch and shameless devotion ...   More

News Ten days after it was announced that Chip Kelly was returning to Oregon, the coach was instead hired away by the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles. Kelly’s short but successful tenure at the school leaves a long shadow, but as WW hypothesized last month, he just might have been too good to stay at the college level.Some reports have suggested that current Oregon offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich will ...   More

News  After Chip Kelly done run off to the big city for the weekend—and then, very unexpectedly, returned home last night to Phil Knight's farm—speculation has run rampant in the sports biosphere about why the Oregon Ducks coach would spurn the National Football League's glamour and cash. We're as puzzled as anybody. But it's worth remembering that Kelly is hardly coming back to a cardboard box ...   More

Cover Story When the Oregon Ducks plucked a little-known offensive coordinator named Chip Kelly out of the University of New Hampshire in   More

News If you're wondering how star running back LaMichael James will play this afternoon when undefeated Oregon plays Arizona at Autzen Stadium, you're not alone. After our story this week about the recently concluded NCAA probe into where James got a 2003 Range Rover, Oregon Coach Chip Kelly and the UO Athletic Department were quick to react to those reports—with Kelly assuring reporters after ...   More

News On the front page of ESPN.com is a story that might interest University of Oregon fans wondering how new coach Chip Kelly is internally addressing the Bizarro LeGarrette Blount debacle in Idaho. Answer: loudly. Turns out the Worldwide Leader's reporter Ivan Maisel was in the locker room after the Boise State game, and listened in as Kelly gave the Ducks a proper bollocking. Highlights: "That ...   More

News Here are four insta-takeaways after watching Oregon football coach Chip Kelly's news conference this morning to announce the prospect that senior running back LeGarrette Blount may play this season after all. 1) Kelly never said his initial decision the day after the Boise State game was wrong. "I made the right decision Sept. 4," Kelly said. 2) Instead, Kelly says Blount's actions — ...   More

News By all accounts, Oregon football coach Chip Kelly will announce this morning some sort of plan that creates enough wiggle room for him to back off his once set-in-stone decision to not let senior running back LeGarrette Blount play this season after Blount lost his mind for a few minutes on national TV following the Ducks' opening-game loss to Boise State. Good. The original decision was a hasty ...   More

News I had my ups and downs with Mike Bellotti when he coached Oregon football. I'm never going to hate completely on a guy who elevated the football program when he took over in 1995. But Bellotti's announcement today that he's leaving the athletic director's post less than a year into it for an ESPN analyst's job definitely smacks of "when the going got tough, Bellotti got going to a much easier job." I'm ...   More