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Oregon Ducks Gain Commitment From Four-Star Linebacker Tristan Phillips
The No. 1 Oregon Ducks got the commitment from class of 2026 tight end, Tristan Phillips.
Phillips spoke to On3 about what stands out about Oregon.
“I was rooting for Oregon as a kid, then as time went on and I got into high school football, the dream became reality,” Phillips said. “Oregon has it all. What Oregon has to offer is unmatched. The training facility, the staff, the education, they have it all. What Oregon has as a whole and how they are building something special made me want to be a part of the program.”
Phillips is also a big fan of Oregon coach Dan Lanning.
“Coach Lanning is a great coach and person. I love his energy and he plays a role in the atmosphere around the program,” Phillips said. His personality gets great players and coaches together in one place. That is why they are the best.
Tristan Phillips Player Profile
Tristan Phillips is a 6-3, 215 pound linebacker out of Ventura, California. Phillips is rated a four-star prospect and ranked as the 13th best linebacker in the class of 2026 per 247sports. Here’s what 247sports’ national recruiting analyst Greg Biggins had this to say about Phillips.
“Long athletic linebacker who also players basketball. Has a very projectable 6-3, 210 pound frame, is a fluid athlete, runs well and can hit,” Biggins said. “Reactionary athlete with some quick twitch to him, can drop, comfortable in space, makes plays sideline to sideline and can get there in a hurry.”
Phillips has shown versatility and it could make him a big time player at the next level.
“(Phillips) shows the positional versatility to play inside or outside linebacker and could even move to edge rusher depending on how much bigger he gets over the next few years,” Biggins said. “High major power four prospect with the talent to play for anyone out west.”
Ducks Have Bright Future Ahead
Tristian Phillips is the 10th player in the class of 2026 to commit to Oregon. He is also the first commitment the Ducks have received from the tight end position.
Oregon has had an incredible 2025 recruiting class that ranked in the top three according to numerous experts. The Ducks are getting off on the right foot in 2026.
The Ducks have now received the commitments from eight players that are rated as four-star recruits in the class of 2026. Coach Dan Lanning has shown the ability to recruit at an elite level since taking over at the helm in 2022.
Oregon has improved each year since Lanning became the coach. The Ducks went 10-3 in 2022, 11-2 in 2023, and have started 2024 with a 12-0 record and are ranked as the No. 1 Team in the country heading into Saturday night’s Big Ten Championship game vs. Penn State.
The Ducks are here to stay.
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FALLS CITY, Ore. — A 63-year-old was sentenced to life in prison for shooting and killing a man with a shotgun during a fight at a Falls City, Oregon property back in 2024.
A jury convicted Terry Lawrence Allwen of second-degree murder back on March 20, the Polk County District Attorney’s Office said.
He was sentenced Friday to serve life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years.
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Allwen was also convicted of other charges like manslaughter, assault, and felon in possession of a firearm, but the sentences for those crimes will be served concurrently with the life sentence.
Court records show that Allwen was staying in an RV parked on a property owned by the victim, 79-year-old Bo Johnson.
At about 9 a.m. on May 31, 2024, Allwen and Johnson got into a verbal fight over some personal property. During that fight, Allwen got a shotgun from his trunk and shot Johnson once, killing him.
“Mr. Johnson had many more years to spend with his family. His senseless murder destroyed the dreams and plans of so many that loved him. I hope that the fact Mr. Allwen today received the maximum possible sentence will bring the family of Mr. Johnson some relief and sense of justice.”
If Allwen is granted parole, the judge also ordered that he have a lifetime of post-prison supervision.
The Oregon Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of a Lane County man who once photographed child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey and was convicted in 2021 on several child pornography charges.
Randall DeWitt Simons, 73, of Oakridge, was charged in 2019 with 15 counts of first-degree encouraging child sex abuse. He was later convicted on every count and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Simons was first arrested after authorities began investigating a report from a restaurant in Oakridge that someone had been using the restaurant’s Wi-Fi to download inappropriate and concerning images.
Law enforcement officers directed the business to track, log, and report all of the user’s internet activity to the investigating officer for more than a year, without a warrant.
Police tracked the computer’s IP address from the restaurant’s Wi-Fi system, which led officers to a man who lived near the restaurant and had given Simons a computer, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in Lane County Circuit Court. Investigators obtained a warrant to search the laptop in Simon’s home, relying on information they had collected over time. He was subsequently arrested.
On March 26, the court ruled warrantless internet surveillance on public Wi-Fi violates privacy.
In an opinion written by Justice Bronson D. James, the court held that the Oregon Constitution recognizes people have a right to privacy in their internet browsing activities and the right is not extinguished when they use a publicly accessible wireless network. It’s even true in cases where that access is conditioned on a person accepting a terms-of-service agreement that says a provider may monitor activity and cooperate with law enforcement, James wrote.
During criminal proceedings in the Lane County Circuit Court, Simons moved to controvert the warrant and suppress the evidence obtained by police, arguing the business was a “state actor for purposes of Article I, section 9, and that its year-long warrantless surveillance was an unconstitutional, warrantless search attributable to the state,” the Supreme Court opinion said.
The Circuit Court denied Simon’s motion. The Oregon Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s decision in part and stated Simons had no cognizable privacy interest in his internet activities performed on a third-party network.
The Oregon Supreme Court rejected the state’s argument.
“The mere fact that a person accesses the internet through a public network does not eliminate their Article I, section 9, right to privacy in their online activities,” according to James. “Even when access is expressly conditioned on a user’s acceptance of terms-of-service provisions purporting to alert the user that the provider may monitor activity and cooperate with law enforcement.”
Justice K. Bushong suggested in a partial dissent the Court should reconsider its approach in a future case to what constitutes a “search” under the Oregon Constitution. The court’s decision reverses the Court of Appeals and sends the case back to the Lane County Circuit Court for further proceedings.
Simons has maintained his innocence since he was arrested in 2019.
Simons had been a photographer for 6-year-old Colorado beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey a few months before her still-unsolved 1996 murder, the Associated Press reported in 1998.
In October 1998, Simons was arrested on a charge of indecent exposure in Lincoln County, Colorado. According to the book “Perfect Murder, Perfect Town” by Lawrence Schiller, Simons was arrested in 1998 for allegedly walking nude down a residential street in the small town of Genoa, Colorado. Simons allegedly offered to the arresting deputy unprovoked, “I didn’t kill JonBenét.”
Haleigh Kochanski is a breaking news and public safety reporter for The Register-Guard. You may reach her at HKochanski@gannett.com.
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