Ducks in hot water

If THE DANGED OL' BEAVERS were smart, they'd show up to next year's CIVIL WAR FOOTBALL GAME dressed in police uniforms.
I can't think of a better way to put MY BELOVED OREGON DUCKS off their game than seeing fake cops across the line of scrimmage -- heaven knows they've seen enough of the real thing this off season.
Star quarterback Jeremiah Masoli is the latest Oregon football player in serious legal trouble -- authorities charged Masoli with second-degree burglary yesterday, following an incident in which two laptops and a guitar were stolen from a Eugene fraternity house.
Add Masoli's arrest to star running back LaMichael James' domestic-violence charges, and the (at least) three other Ducks facing legal problems, and the Oregon football program finds itself in a deep crisis, appearing to have no control on a group of players known on some sports blogs as "THE OREGON THUGS."
Masoli's brush with the law, if true, saddens me the most.
I cheered particularly loudly for Masoli, a Daly City, Calif., native who played at City College of San Francisco before making the trek up north.
A Multnomah County deputy district attorney told the Oregonian newspaper that a person without a significant prior record would probably face probation if facing Masoli's charges.
That would keep the quarterback out of jail, but it would do nothing to repair Oregon's damaged reputation.