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Oregon Ducks Offensive Line Named Joe Moore Award Semifinalists: Best Unit In College Football?
The No. 1 Oregon Ducks are eyeing down the final two games of their regular season, which also means seasonal award lists are narrowing down their candidates. One massive (literally and figuratively) award recently announced their semifinalists today, and the Ducks are included.
The Joe Moore Award, given to the best offensive line unit in the country, named the Oregon Ducks as one of their coveted semifinalists. Joining the green and yellow on this list includes No. 9 Alabama, No. 16 Army, No. 5 Indiana, No. 8 Notre Dame, No. 2 Ohio State, No. 6 Tennessee, No. 3 Texas, and finally No. 25 Tulane. This is the third season in a row the Ducks have emerged as semifinalists for this honor.
“This year has been unique—many of the units we expected to excel have struggled, and week-to-week performance has been oddly unpredictable at our position,” said Cole Cubelic, the Chairman of the Joe Moore Award voting committee.
Cubelic’s statement certainly can apply to Oregon’s unit. At the start of the 2024 season, many pointed to the offensive line as the biggest weak point for the squad. Against their opening game vs. the Idaho Vandals, the offensive line only allowed 2.9 yards per rushing attempt; a statistic so shocking that Oregon offensive line coach A’lique Terry wore a shirt with the number to the following weeks’ practices to motivate his athletes.
The inside of the line was the biggest struggle for Oregon to overcome. With injuries to last year starter Dave Iuli and transfer Matthew Bedford, and the loss of center Jackson Powers Johnson to the NFL Draft last year, a sure path ahead wasn’t certain for the Ducks in terms of a clean pocket for quarterback Dillon Gabriel and open gaps for rushers like Jordan James. The Ducks had things figured out on the exterior with preseason All-American Ajani Cornelius and former starter Josh Conerly Jr., but the interior was a question mark.
By their bout against Oregon State, the Ducks figured out a switch at left guard and center was essential, allowing Iapani “Poncho” Lalolou to take over snapping duties and Nishad Strother to emerge from the bench and a previous injury to take over the left guard position. Both men have excelled so far, with Lalolou’s communication at the helm creating a strong base to strengthen the trenches.
Since the Ducks have figured out their core rotation, with Dave Iuli back in the mix at right guard after Marcus Harper II was placed on the injury list after Oregon’s win over Michigan, their statistics have shined. In the last seven of their eight contests, Oregon’s offensive line helped create over 150 rushing yards per game. In their last eight games, the Ducks have only allowed three sacks. Though the start of the season significantly heightens their sack statistics (bringing the number up to ten), this drastic improvement should show how impressive it is the Oregon offensive line and Terry were able to right the ship.
On top of all of that, in their win against the Maryland Terrapins, the Oregon offensive line helped Gabriel score his record-breaking touchdown with backup Gernorris Wilson suiting up in 91 instead of his usual jersey number 75 to catch a 3-yard touchdown pass. Conerly Jr. followed up the score with his own two point conversion. In what’s usually a third quarter slump for the Ducks, their only points in that period came from two offensive linemen.
Though the Ducks won’t find out who wins the Joe Moore Award till Tuesday, December 3rd, their impressive performance and ability to course correct is already something Duck fans can be proud of.
The trench monsters will be back to keep moving the rock on Saturday, November 16th at 4:30pm as the Ducks take on the Wisconsin Badgers at Camp Randall Stadium.
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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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