Figured I may as well share the fruit of my bored clicking:

As an Oregon fan, I knew that we had the longest home winning streak after the Sooners and the Broncos lost earlier in the year. As an LSU fan, after getting home from the Ducks' loss, I decided to go poking on ESPN.com into the past schedules of teams undefeated at home this year. Turns out all but four of them lost in 2010. Those four are:

• LSU: 16 game streak dating to October 10, 2009 loss to Florida
• Wisconsin: 15 game streak dating to October 17, 2009 loss to Iowa
• Auburn: 15 game streak dating to November 27, 2009 loss to Alabama
• Michigan State: 14 game streak dating to November 21, 2009 loss to Penn State

(subject to the correctness of ESPN.com, and my counting correctly while listening to podcasts)

The first order of business, a few weeks ago PodKATT said that he expected pictures from the NCAA Track and Field Meet. I did take them (although there's plenty of UO in there with the LSU) and they're up, but still mostly unlabeled on my Flickr page.

Secondly, there are current, future, and former Tigers competing in Des Moines this weekend. RunnerSpace.com has both a live feed and archives of previous events and some events will be televised. But if you're like me, you don't care to watch the whole meet, but would like a schedule of when the LSU-affiliated runners are competing or what events in the archive have Tigers. To that end, here it is:

Thursday

12:10 - Junior Women's 100m 1st Round - Takeia Pickney (freshman) (1st 11.38Q)
2:20 - Junior Women's 100m Final - Pickney (1st 11.30)
4:45 - Women's 800m 1st Round - LaTavia Thomas (senior) (7th 2:02.41Q)
5:05 - Men's 800m 1st Round - Richard Jones (senior) (11th 1:47.76q)

Friday - ESPN 7:00-9:00

4:45 - Women's 100m hurdles 1st Round - Lolo Jones(former) (1st 12.82Q)
5:00 - Men's Hammer - Walter Henning (junior)
7:15 - Women's 800m Semis - Thomas
7:30 - Men's 800m Semis - Richard Jones

Saturday - ESPN 12:00-1:30, NBC 2:00-3:00

1:15 - Women's 100m hurdles Semis - Lolo Jones
2:00 - Women's Long Jump - Jen Clayton(recruit)
2:52 - Women's 100m hurdles Finals - Lolo Jones
4:05 - Men's 200m dash 1st Round - Xavier Carter (former)
4:50 - Men's 110m hurdles 1st Round- Barret Nugent (sophomore), Ryan Fontenot (former)

Sunday - ESPN 12:00-1:30, NBC 2:00-3:00

12:05 - Men's 200m dash Semis - Carter
12:30 - Men's Long Jump - Jeremy Hicks(former)
12:30 - Men's 110m hurdles Semis - Nugent, Fontenot
1:50 - Women's 800m Final - Thomas
2:00 - Men's 800m Finals - Richard Jones
2:20 - Men's 200m Finals - Carter
2:50 - Men's 110m hurdles Finals - Nugent, Fontenot

This is pretty much what the Beavers' season has felt like recently. (Photo by Brent Wojahn via oregonianphoto.com)

Baseball takes on OSU in a 3-game conference series this weekend. The Beavers are reeling, having won just 1 of their last 12 games and coming off a sweep by Cal in which they were outscored 34-10. After spending the last 7 games on the road, the Beavers return to Corvallis for the next 9.

The Ducks' momentum is in the other direction, as they've risen to No. 15 in the Baseball America poll. Oregon is looking to win its 5th straight conference series, behind a weekend rotation with a combined ERA of 2.71. The Ducks' last game was a 3-1 loss to Portland in which Eddie Rodriguez accounted for 3 of the Ducks' 5 hits, including a solo shot in the bottom of the 9th.

No 15 Oregon Ducks (30-15, 10-8) at Oregon State Beavers (21-17, 4-11)
Goss Stadium at Coleman Field (3,248)
Series: OSU leads 155-148 all-time, Oregon leads 1-0 on the season

All four games will be broadcast on 95.3 FM in Eugene and 95.5 FM in Portland.

Fri, May 07 5:30 PM (No TV, unless you want to pay $9.95 to osubeavers.com)
Oregon - LHP Tyler Anderson (6-3, 2.62)
OSU - RHP Greg Peavey (3-2, 3.27)

Sat, May 08 1:00 PM (KEZI 9.2, FSNNW)
UO - RHP Justin LaTempa (4-2, 2.64)
OSU - LHP Tanner Robles (4-4, 3.82)

Sun, May 09 1:00 PM (OSN; former Beaver Jim Wilson will be working alongside Giasante)
UO - RHP Zack Thornton (7-0, 2.87)
OSU - TBA

Original Tuesday vs. Portland post after the jump:

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So, just about the only chance I'll get to see the Braves live this year is the road trip to San Francisco, and I was wondering if anyone else was planning to do so as well and would be interested in a meetup.

The series is 1:35 on Friday 9 Mar, 7:05 on Saturday 10 Mar, and 1:05 on Sunday 11 Mar (all Pacific); as I'm a student at UO right now, I'd probably be making Saturday and Sunday, but might or might not be able to do Friday. There also could be a second student coming, who's from the area and a Giants fan, but he's not yet sure if he can do that weekend or not.

So, first, since search tells me that this was never posted on the front page...volleyball went up to Pullman on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and took down WSU 3-1. They then headed over to face the No. 4, Pac-10 leading Huskies. After falling behind 2-0, the Ducks rallied back behind Sonja Newcombe to beat the Huskies 3-2, breaking a 17-match losing streak to UW and preventing the Huskies from clinching a share of the Pac-10 championship.

Sonja Newcombe, in the midst of kicking Fusky ass. Mmm, 36 kills.

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Just in case you feel like you weren't thinking about Duck sports enough this weekend with the football game, it seems that we have all the other fall and winter team sports at home this weekend as well, and there was also a post this Tuesday announcing a lacrosse alumni weekend "Friday at 2 in Autzen," which one would normally assume means "this Friday." But College GameDay outside and a game vs. USC the next day are not normal. So, you may, in fact, be able to catch up to five sports in three days, or six in five:

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So, after seeing a similar post on And The Valley Shook, I figured this would be an interesting thing to post on a week we're not playing on Saturday. And after Thursday night, distractions are good.

So, as the title says...what college football teams do you root for besides Oregon?

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