Washington
Oregon crushes Oregon State, sets up rematch with Washington in Pac-12 title game
BY ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer
EUGENE, Ore. — Bo Nix threw for two touchdowns and ran for another, securing No. 6 Oregon a spot in the Pac-12 championship game with a 31-7 victory over No. 15 Oregon State on Friday night in the final scheduled matchup between the in-state rivals.
The Ducks (11-1 overall, 8-1 Pac-12, No. 6 CFP) will face No. 4 Washington next Friday night in Las Vegas, the last conference championship game before 10 of the league’s teams bolt next season. The winner has a chance at earning a spot in the four-team College Football Playoff.
It was Oregon’s sixth straight win since a 36-33 loss at Washington on Oct. 14. The rematch next week will mark the first meeting between the teams in the Pac-12 title game.
Nix, among the Heisman Trophy favorites, completed 33 of 40 passes for 367 yards. Troy Franklin caught nine passes for 128 yards and a score.
Former St. John Bosco standout DJ Uiagalelei threw for 220 yards and a touchdown for Oregon State (8-4, 5-4, No. 16 CFP), which is one of two teams not to leave the Pac-12, along with Washington State. Oregon is heading to the Big Ten next season, along with USC, UCLA and Washington.
While Washington and Washington State have agreed to continue the Apple Cup as a nonconference rivalry game, no such deal has been struck between the Ducks and the Beavers.
The Huskies (11-0, 6-0, No. 4 CFP) sealed their spot in the conference championship last weekend with a 22-20 victory over the Beavers. Washington hosts Washington State on Saturday.
Bucky Irving caught a short pass from Nix and ran for a 14-yard touchdown on the Ducks’ first drive, which took 8:41 off the clock.
Nix scored on a 16-yard keeper early in the second quarter. The Ducks converted on fourth down on both scoring drives.
Uiagalelei’s 9-yard touchdown pass to Silas Bolden narrowed the score to 14-7 with 54 seconds left in the first half, but Nix led an efficient Oregon series that ended with his 41-yard scoring pass to Troy Franklin to make it 21-7 at the break.
It was Franklin’s 14th touchdown this season. It was also the 25th of his career at Oregon, a school record.
After Camden Lewis made a 35-yard field goal for the Ducks in the third quarter, Jordan James pushed the lead to 31-7 with a 1-yard TD in the fourth.
Nix has 37 touchdown passes with two interceptions this season and he’s run for six more scores.
THE TAKEAWAY
Oregon: It was Oregon’s ninth straight victory over Oregon State at Autzen Stadium. … Oregon has won 11 games for the first time since 2019, and the eighth time in program history. … Arizona was eliminated from a shot at the conference championship, no matter what happens when the Wildcats play rival Arizona State on Saturday afternoon in Tempe. Arizona needed an Oregon State win to stay alive.
Oregon State: While the Beavers still have a bowl to look forward to, there has been rampant speculation this week that the rivalry game was Coach Jonathan Smith’s last for his alma mater. Smith has been linked to the vacancy at Michigan State. On Wednesday, Beavers athletic director Scott Barnes issued a statement that said his top priority is keeping Smith in Corvallis.
END OF AN ERA
Fans on both sides were sad about the end of the rivalry between the state’s two biggest universities, which are only about 40 miles apart in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Friday’s game was the 127th time the Beavers and Ducks have met.
“It’s very deeply rooted and everyone has respect for one another. It’s like camaraderie. It brings the state together. It’s really sad that we won’t be able to continue that in the years ahead,” said Donna Moore, who graduated from Oregon in 1990.
UP NEXT
Oregon: The Ducks play Washington in the Pac-12 championship next Friday night in Las Vegas.
Oregon State: The Beavers await their bowl bid. The Pac-12 has agreements with six bowl games. Normally the Rose Bowl is the destination for the winner of the conference, but this year it’s a playoff site.
Washington
Graham-Kapowsin vs. Sumner: Live score, updates of Washington high school football in ninth week (11/2/2024)
After splitting up into divisions, the winners will meet for the overall 4A SPSL championship Friday night.
And it is two teams very familiar with each other – No. 7 Graham-Kapowsin vs. No. 2 Sumner.
The two teams meet at 7 p.m. Pacific time at Sunset Chev Stadium in Sumner. A live feed is available on NFHS Network (subscription only).
SBLive is tracking scores across the state of Washington through Week 9. Stay with us for the latest score and game updates from pregame to teardown. Refresh this post and scroll down for the latest.
PRE-GAME: GRAHAM-KAPOWSIN VS. SUMNER
FIRST QUARTER
Will be updated once game starts.
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About Graham-Kapowsin
Key players— WR/DB Kase Betz, TE Noah Flores, DL Jonathan Haas, OL/DL Kaleb Leatigaga, QB A.J. Tuivaiave.
About Sumner
Key players— TE Carter Cocke, QB Nate Donavan, LB Austin Glivar, WR Braylon Pope, RB Steele Isaacs.
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Longtime Washington Post columnist Hugh Hewitt quit the newspaper on Friday, he told Fox News Digital.
Hewitt, a conservative who hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, had been a contributing columnist for the newspaper since 2017 and has written hundreds of pieces.
“I have in fact quit the Post but I was only writing a column for them every six weeks or so,” Hewitt told Fox News Digital, adding he’d recently offered to write another pro-Trump column for the paper ahead of the election. He informed editorial page editor David Shipley on Friday morning.
His last piece was published on Tuesday, where he called on the MAGA movement to evolve if Trump was elected president again. He was a rare pro-Trump voice at the liberal outlet, whose opinion roster and editorial board lean sharply to the left, but his pieces touched on a wide variety of topics.
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Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt has quit his gig as a Washington Post contributing columnist. (Washington Post)
A clip of Hewitt went viral earlier on Friday when he walked off the Washington Post’s online show the “First Look” with liberal columnists Jonathan Capehart and Ruth Marcus on its “Washington Post Live” platform. It came during a discussion of Trump rhetoric around election integrity.
“Does it seem like Donald Trump is laying the groundwork for contesting the election by complaining that cheating was taking place in Pennsylvania?” Capehart asked Marcus. “By suing Bucks County for alleged irregularities, and this is on top of his continual assertion that if he loses, it’s because of cheating.”
Marcus said Trump had been preparing to blame an election loss on cheating for months.
“No election can be fair in Donald Trump’s mind unless Donald Trump wins it,” Marcus said.
As Marcus went on, Hewitt tried to interject, but Capehart snapped, “Let Ruth finish, Hugh.”
“Well, I’ve just got to say, we’re news people, even though it’s the opinion section,” Hewitt said. “It’s got to be reported. Bucks County was reversed by the court and instructed to open up extra days because they violated the law and told people to go home. So that lawsuit was brought by the Republican National Committee, and it was successful. The Supreme Court ruled that Glenn Youngkin was successful.
JEFF BEZOS ADDRESSES WASHINGTON POST ENDORSEMENT FIASCO, CITES DISTRUST IN MEDIA LED TO ‘PRINCIPLED DECISION’
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks during Turning Point’s United for Change rally on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, in Las Vegas. (Madeline Carter/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
“We are news people, even though we have opinions, and we have to report the whole story if we bring up part of the story,” Hewitt added. “So, yes, he’s upset about Bucks County, but he was right and he won in court. That’s the story.”
After a brief pause, Capehart said, “I don’t appreciate being lectured about reporting when Hugh, many times, you’ve come here saying lots of things that aren’t based in fact.”
Hewitt stood up and said, “I won’t come back, Jonathan. I’m done. I’m done. This is the most unfair election ad I’ve ever been a part of. You guys are working. That’s fine. I’m done.”
With that, he left, leaving a blank corner of the screen while Capehart went back to Marcus to talk about her column saying the stakes of the election were democracy and “decency.”
But then Marcus’ screen froze, and further technical difficulties derailed the show from there.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Washington Post for comment.
WASHINGTON POST OWNER JEFF BEZOS WANTS MORE CONSERVATIVE OPINION WRITERS AT PAPER: REPORT
Hewitt’s leaving the Post comes on the heels of the decision, at the behest of owner Jeff Bezos, not to endorse a candidate for president this year. The Post’s abdication set off an uproar among staffers and readers, leading to resignations and hundreds of thousands of canceled subscriptions.
Bezos also has reportedly called for having more conservative opinion writers, so Hewitt’s departure is a blow to that goal.
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. (Getty Images)
The Post was set to endorse Kamala Harris – it hasn’t backed a Republican for president since it began regularly offering White House endorsements in 1976 – before Bezos pulled the plug, citing efforts to rebuild trust with readers skeptical of the media.
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Not a regular columnist for the newspaper, Hewitt had written only seven pieces for the Post in 2024 after penning 48 pieces for it alone in 2023.
One person is dead and two others wounded after a shooting in the food court of the Vancouver Mall in Vancouver, Wash. Thursday night and the suspect is at large, police say.
CBS Portland, Oregon affiliate KOIN-TV reports that authorities believe the shooter was still “possibly armed.”
Police say they responded to a report of a shooting at about 7:30 p.m. local time and found a person who’d been killed and the two who were wounded. Those two were taken to an area hospital. There was no word on the extent of their wounds.
In posts on X late Thursday night, police said there “is currently no active threat inside the mall and police are making contact with people who were sheltering in place inside the mall. … Anyone that has been sheltering in place inside the mall can leave through any open exit.”
In a statement, police added that there hadn’t been any more injuries reported.
“Detectives from the Vancouver Police Department Major Crime Team are reviewing videos from inside the mall in an attempt to identify the suspect,” police said.
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