The Civil War was last night.The University of Oregon Ducks beat the Oregon State Beavers 37-33 and will represent the Pac-10 in the Rose Bowl on January 1, 2010. They will take on the Buckeyes of Ohio State. It was a great game but not as great as the story I am about to make you aware of. Sometimes it is about so much more than the game. Just a little Oregon Duck history, the University of Oregon has Disney's permission to use a Donald Duck look alike as their mascot. Sometimes that mascot will make people smile. Even a non-sports fan like Pat will like this story. I would strongly suggest a tissue or two while reading the before an after
Before the game:
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/sports/23702231-41/story.csp
What happened:
http://blog.oregonlive.com/behindbeaversbeat/2009/12/civil_war_angel_at_autzen_as_a.html (Note: Chip Kelly is head coach of Oregon. This is his first year as head coach and he was coaching the biggest game of life last night. He still made time to make someone else smile.)
CHRISTMAS CONTEST ANNOUNCED!
I am proud to announce the first annual "The Dahn Report Christmas Challnge." First prize will be a seventy-five dollar gift card of your choice. Second prize will be a fifty dollar gift card of your choice. Third prize will be a twenty-five dollar gift card of your choice. If two tie for any of the prizes there will be a coin flip to determine the winner. If more than two tie for any of the prizes all of the names will be placed in a hat and the winner will be drawn from the hat, first name drawn will be given the lowest prize, and the last name drawn given the highest prize. The contest will BEGIN AT 7 AM PACFIC STANDARD TIME ON DECEMBER 8, 2009 AND END AT 5 PM PACIFIC STANDARD TIME ON DECEMBER 10, 2009. The contest will be twenty-five to thirty questions. While most of the questions will be based on the people in history we have learned about with the who am I questions there may very well be new people introduced in the contest. There may even be a red herring or two. There may be some bonus questions. Point values will be assigned to each question with the most points winning the contest. ANYONE CAN ENTER. ANSWERS POSTED ON THE BLOG WILL BE IMMEDIATELY DELETED, YOU MUST SEND ALL CONTEST ENTRIES TO ME BY EMAIL AT WILLIAMJDAHN@AOL.COM NO LATER THAN 5 PM PACIFIC STANDARD TIME ON DECEMBER 10, 2009. Winners will be announced sometime on December 12, 2009 and may be announced earlier. Get your game face on and try these practice questions:
Yesterdays answers:
Liza Redfield was the first woman to conduct an orchestra on Broadway. She leads a 24-piece orchestra in The Music Man
Ann Bancroft was the first woman to walk on the North Pole
Sally Jean Priesand was the first woman rabbi
Today's practice questions:
Who was the first woman to earn a glider pilot license?
Who was the first African-American tennis player to win a singles title at Wimbledon?
What first is Ileana Ros-Lehtinen famous for?
Are you ready for a contest?
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6 comments:
Lovely story, Bill, even for a non-sports-fan like me. {g} What a terrific young man. And kudos to the mother that taught him, too.
Hope you're managing to be optimistic about the stress test. I am. Optimistic, that is.
Am I ready for a contest? Not sure. Maybe.
Bill, thanks for sharing the stories. Kudos to the young man for getting things started, to his mom for "raising hime right" and to all the other fans who made things happen. What a lovely gift to the little girl and her family and they'll have the pictures and scrap book and special shirt to hopefully help them through the surgery next month.
Hi Pat
I thought you might like the story!
I'm still really worried about the test.
Bill
Hi DR
I think you also have to give kudos to the coach, if they had regular tickets she probably wouldn't have been able to go, but in the coach's private box she was able to withstand the noise etc.
I loved everything about the story!!!
Bill
Bill, nice story, as usual. Where do you find the time?
Try to not stress about the upcoming stress test. That's easier said than done huh? Have you had one before?
Contest? So soon? Again where do you find the time..... (Hopefully not the source of the stress?)
Hi Dona!!
It doesn't really take a lot of time for the stories. I read two papers a day in the morning with my coffee and breakfast, so finding the stories is just going to the papers' web sites and cut and paste.
The contest saves time because the day the contest comes out I don't post any other blog entry. I already have a checking sheet. So checking them is easy.
And thanks to you I am getting a little more comfortable with the stress test.
Bill
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