The I-5 Corridor's Traffic Report

Welcome back to The I-5 Corridor’s Traffic Report, where this week Tyson and Justin are just about done with replay. Maybe it’s the end of the Timbers’ 3-3 draw with LAFC that did it for them. Maybe it’s the last two minutes of NBA playoff games that can take an hour. Whatever it may be, our two hosts are back from vacation and back yelling at technology to get off their lawns. Plus: Oregon spring...

Hello, Friends, and welcome to Masters Week here on The I-5 Corridor. In this week’s episode, we preview Justin’s upcoming trip to Bandon, discuss whether Dan Lanning has set himself up as the “coolest” football coach Oregon has ever had, long for the days of a good Blazers playoff run, and then bring on Corridor 2024 Masters correspondent Kevin Palmer — who isn’t too happy about this year’s crede...

The Traffic Report went for a bit of a field trip this week. On today’s episode, Tyson and Justin are back from their Wednesday outing at Joe Etzel Field, where the No. 15 Ducks and Portland Pilots had an ending that neither one of us had seen in person before. We discuss the game, our pre-first pitch celebrity encounter, Justin’s trip to Vegas and why Oregon MBB doesn’t just put together an NIL s...

Hello everyone and welcome to The I-5 Corridor’s Traffic Report. On this week’s episode, Tyson Alger and Justin Myers recap the first week of the NCAA Tournament and discuss whether or not there’s still room for Cinderella before diving deep into our thoughts on Opening Day of the Major League Baseball season. Then, we check in on Shane Hoffmann down in Los Angeles for a quick discussion on the Ti...

On this week’s Traffic Report, Tyson and Justin talk Oregon at the Big Ten Tournament, Dan Lanning’s new contract (for real this time), Scott Rueck and Oregon State’s improbable run back to the NCAA Tournament and what Dana Altman’s Ducks need to do to be remembered as one of those teams. For more, listen to this podcast in the player above or find us over on Apple or Spotify. — Tyson Alger, The I...

OK, so we don’t actually cover Dan Lanning’s new contract in today’s episode of The Traffic Report — we recorded Wednesday afternoon — but the big man signing a big $$$ deal is news enough that it’s worth leading today’s post. The terms? The fourth-year Ducks coach has reportedly agreed to an amended contract that will increase his salary to nearly $11 million per year through 2031. The contract w...

Happy Thursday, folks. We here at The I-5 Corridor’s Traffic Report hope you’re listening to this week’s episode from your lawn mower. Because with sunny skies and temperatures rising into the 60s, Justin Myers and Tyson Alger have a full episode for you where they: * Talk about being yard guys. * Dive into the latest turnaround for Oregon men’s basketball. * Figure out what it will take to suppor...

We’re almost out of the doldrums, folks. Yes, mid-to-late February can get a little slow for sports news. Luckily, there’s sun on the horizon. Pitchers and catchers have long since reported to Arizona for spring training and March Madness is just around the corner — same with spring football and the start of the MLS season. And here at the I-5 Corridor, Tyson and Justin have thawed out from last w...

Welcome to The Replayables, where The I-5 Corridor’s Traffic Report hosts Tyson Alger and Justin Myers revisit one classic game in Oregon history every month. Well friends, we sure hope you didn’t leave this one early. Yes, Oklahoma was up 10 points with four minutes to go. Yes, the Sooners had the ball, in the red zone, with quite possibly the best run-out-the-clock running back in college footba...

The I-5 Corridor Traffic Report went for a field trip this week. With the Super Bowl coming up on Sunday, I spent a couple of hours earlier in the week over at Lombard House, home of the North Portland Bird Watchers Society, where I sat down with owner Brian Koch and regular Nick Calcaterra — the older brother of Philadelphia Eagles tight end Grant Calcaterra — to talk about the big game, the Eagl...

We have a bit of everything on this week’s I-5 Corridor Traffic Report. We begin with a deep conversation about how very uncool it is to get injured doing athletic activities as you age, we move into talk about why it seems everyone hates the Kansas City Chiefs so much, we veer right into an inquisitive discussion about which sports conspiracy theories might actually be true, then we try to figure...

And with that, the 2024 College Football season has officially come to a close. The Ohio State Buckeyes won the tournament. The Oregon Ducks won a consolation prize. And on this week’s Traffic Report, Tyson Alger and Justin Myers give their final thoughts on a historically different season of college football. Then, they try to figure out how someone could justify leaving Ichiro Suzuki off of thei...

Welcome to The Replayables, where The I-5 Corridor’s Traffic Report hosts Tyson Alger and Justin Myers revisit one classic game in Oregon history every month. With the national championship coming up on Monday, we kick off this new series by transporting listeners back to January of 2011, when the Oregon Ducks and the Auburn Tigers met in Glendale, Arizona with all the Tostitos on the line. The fi...

Yes, there’s still plenty of football to talk around these parts. The Oregon Ducks have been very active in the transfer portal, the College Football Playoff semifinals are this weekend and there’s still a bit of #Legacy talk to sort out. However, after 14,000 fans came through Matthew Knight Arena for two quality Big Ten opponents last week, Tyson and Justin attempted to answer that age-old quest...

And just like that, it’s over. The 2024 Oregon Ducks are now a team spoken about in the past tense. This week on The I-5 Corridor’s Traffic Report, Justin Myers and Tyson Alger attempt to understand what that means. Plus: Is Tez Johnson the best Oregon receiver ever? For more, listen to this podcast in the player above or find us over on Apple or Spotify. Bonus: I know nobody really wanted to see...

Well, folks, the Oregon Ducks have a game to play. Four days from now, the No. 1 Ducks will face the No. 6 (8-seeded) Ohio State Buckeyes in a good-old-fashioned Pac-12 Big Ten vs. Big Ten showdown. And after a week of pretty obnoxious college football discourse, Tyson and Justin can’t wait to get this Rose Bowl quarterfinal game underway. The two preview the game in this week’s Traffic Report. Th...

Well, folks, the playoffs are finally here. After all that talk, college football’s new 12-team bracket makes its debut Friday night with No. 7 Notre Dame hosting No. 10 Indiana with the temperature expected to plunge below freezing. Justin Myers and Tyson Alger preview the playoffs in this week’s Traffic Report. They also discuss the Heisman Trophy, Oregon’s advantage at attracting high-level qua...

Tyson survived his trip to Indy. Justin’s truck is back up and running. There’s little that can stop them now. The two got together for this week’s Traffic Report, where Tyson gave Justin a behind-the-scenes look at how the Big Ten Championship felt before Justin dives into his grand plan to save the College Football Playoff. For more, listen to this podcast in the player above or find us over on...

Boy, did Justin Myers and I have a bit to catch up on. Back from our one-week Thanksgiving hiatus, Justin and I caught up on the Washington game, Oregon’s 12-0 start, Dan Lanning smashing a Washington helmet in, the ridiculous notion of throwing the Big Ten Championship game, signing day and more. For more, listen to this podcast in the player above or find us over on Apple or Spotify. The I-5 Cor...

Former Washington and current Oregon cornerback Jabbar Muhammad may consider Saturday’s Ducks vs. Huskies rivalry tilt to be “just another game,” but old man Christian Caple over On Montlake and I have been around too many years of this to know that’s not the case. So this week, we decided to podcast about it. I filled in over on Caple’s Say Who, Say Pod this week, where we broke down what the lat...

It’s been a week, folks. Justin’s car broke down, JJ and I spent all of Thursday battling internet trolls and a JetSki would have been more proper for the drive back from Corvallis last night. However: Justin and I managed to get together on Thursday before hoops to share a bit of our misery before we turned our thoughts to the Washington game, Oregon clinching an appearance in the Big Ten champio...

The Oregon Ducks are undefeated. They haven’t lost since December and, frankly, haven’t even flirted with defeat in more than a month. They’re No. 1 in the country — and they’re the team whose last few wins are being skipped over in the national discussion and needled a bit locally. Every week can’t be the Ohio State game, which is why in this week’s Traffic Report, Justin Myers and Tyson Alger di...

Happy Friday everyone and welcome to a new(ish) era of The I-5 Corridor’s Traffic Report. For the rest of the football season, I’ll be joined by friend of the show Justin Myers, who will bring his Oregon football insight, history and much better broadcasting skills to this program weekly. This week, we begin by talking about why that’s possible before getting into a discussion about this week’s Or...

For the last decade, even as Oregon reached a national championship game under Mark Helfrich and won a Rose Bowl under Mario Cristobal, it’s felt like the UO program had still been chasing the ghost of the Chip Kelly era. The coolness. The popularity. The branding. The dominance. But after Saturday’s win against Ohio State, that era is finally beginning to feel like a long time ago. Justin Myers j...

This one has been in the works for a long time. The Ohio State and Oregon home-and-home series was initially announced in October of 2012. The Ducks and Buckeyes would play in Eugene in 2020 and Columbus in 2021. And of course, it didn’t happen that way. But now, as conference rivals, the No. 2 Buckeyes will finally make their trip out to Eugene for the first top-5, top-4, top-3 matchup in Autzen...