![On Beaver and Duck football, reffing in the NBA this season, Keanon Lowe’s movie, Terry Baker and the Heisman and death of a champion …](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea2905595d0806eaca343b1/1608211023350-8H9QSE2OSOZP86I8803V/_DSC6415.jpg)
On Beaver and Duck football, reffing in the NBA this season, Keanon Lowe’s movie, Terry Baker and the Heisman and death of a champion …
Knocking it around on a variety of subjects on a drizzly Sunday in the Willamette Valley …
• I can’t imagine Jonathan Smith got much sleep Saturday night.
Oregon State’s 27-24 loss to Stanford couldn’t have been much more painful for the third-year Beaver coach.
Losses like that are daggers to the heart a coach trying to build a program.
![A game for the ages in the fog at Reser](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea2905595d0806eaca343b1/1606610132307-BL45P14AJJ0YVY3UEXB6/gallery_image+%281%29.jpg)
A game for the ages in the fog at Reser
Here is what’s on my mind after Friday’s epic 41-38 Oregon State victory over Oregon in the foggy, eerie solitude of Reser Stadium …
• The Beavers’ come-from-behind win over the ninth-ranked Ducks becomes an instant classic in this, the strangest of all football seasons in the most unsettling year of our lifetime.
![Beavers flop, Ducks hop In their season openers](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea2905595d0806eaca343b1/1604977606158-Q1396N9TAHZK99UYYNLH/_DSC5686.jpg)
Beavers flop, Ducks hop In their season openers
A few observations on the Beavers and Ducks after debut Saturday of Pac-12 football …