The Mighty Oregon Podcast

Former Oregon great Kenjon Barner was on some of the most explosive teams in Duck football history, playing alongside some of the Ducks’ greatest players and winning at an unprecedented clip. To Barner, his success stems from being raised in a large family and doing whatever it takes to win. Barner left his home in Southern California and headed up the coast to play for Oregon, where he became a c...

Oregon great and all-things-golf Peter Jacobsen has had quite the journey. He’s played in the world’s top tournaments, befriended some of the greats of the game, and lived a life around the sport he loves. But before he became a household name in the golf world, he and his family just wanted to play golf. Jacobsen turned his early life lessons with his family into a very successful golf playing ca...

Oregon head football coach Mario Cristobal has lived a life of football since a very young age. But at the end of his football playing career, Cristobal entertained other options for his future work life, but eventually chose football, and life has never been the same. Cristobal has learned from the best throughout his coaching career, and he’s taken those lessons to great heights for the Ducks si...

From the bottom to the top. That’s a good way to describe Oregon women’s soccer coach Graeme Abel’s career path. Abel played soccer at small schools in his first foray into American life and his move was a culture shock. Bye-bye big city. Hello rural Kentucky. Abel wound his way around the country as an assistant coach at Nevada, Washington State, and Oklahoma before securing the goalkeepers’ coac...

Eugene Omoroyi has lived quite a life. Emigrating from Nigeria to Canada as a young boy, he has seen his share of obstacles. Although he lived a Canadian life outside of his home, inside it was Nigerian language, Nigerian customs, and an appreciation for the sacrifices his family has made for him. After playing soccer growing up, Omoruyi came around to the sport of basketball late in high school a...

The Canadian Larry Bird. Duck women’s basketball great Bev Smith was an early pioneer of the women’s game, and people in her native country knew all about her skills on the court. At 6′1″, Smith was playing center for her high school team, but she knew she had to develop a different skillset for her to advance her athletic career. Her skill development took her to the University of Oregon, where s...

For Oregon volleyball star Brooke Nuneviller, volleyball is an integral part to her family life. Her father and brother played competitively. And her mom was a star player at the collegiate level and spent time coaching in Division I volleyball. Her family’s influence has shaped her into a leader on the court and there’s not too many things she hasn’t accomplished on it. After a complicated recrui...

Quarterbacks are, more often than not, the face of a team. And when you’re talking about Akili Smith—who helped launch Oregon into the stratosphere of the college football elite—it’s quite a legacy … one that established a quarterback-producing powerhouse. But legacies are complicated, and to know Smith’s is to understand the tough love he got from a father who didn’t want his son to make the same...

For former Duck standout David Peterson, there has always been one constant throughout his life to help him through good times and bad. The game of baseball. All of the hours of playing and practicing turned into an All-American career with the Ducks, which included semifinalist nods for national player of the year awards. He was so good, he once struck out 20 Mississippi State batters in a single...

For Oregon softball standout Haley Cruse, is she as authentic as she seems on social media? For someone with over 20 million likes on Tik-Tok, she has a lot of eyeballs watching her every move. How did she achieve such social media stardom? Cruse, now in her fifth year with the Ducks, has seen her career go from one roller coaster to another. In her freshman and sophomore seasons, the Ducks go to...

How would you like to be Devon Allen? If you laid out a 110-meter hurdle setup, you could count on one hand the people on the planet Earth that are faster than you. That’s it. But there is more to Allen than the track. And when he was deciding on a college choice, he was going to make sure that he was going to find a place where he could diversify his athletic experience. Success followed Allen th...

Joey Harrington. Captain comeback. Oregon fans will forever have his late-game heroics embedded in their memories and his career vaulted the Ducks into the national conversation for football success. It always seemed if he was born for those moments. Born and raised in Portland, Harrington’s dad played quarterback with the Ducks. His grandfather played at the University of Portland. He truly is an...

It’s been over 20 years since Oregon men’s golf coach Casey Martin was at the heart of one of golf’s biggest controversies. Martin wanted to play golf at the highest levels and needed a golf cart to do so because of a disability. The Professional Golf Association had other ideas and challenged Martin in a case that eventually reached the Supreme Court. The biggest names in professional golf were a...

Oregon women’s basketball coach Kelly Graves has seen it all. From coaching at the junior college ranks to reaching the Final Four at the Division One level, the Oregon women’s basketball mentor has had transcending success. But for Graves, success is more than what happens on the basketball court. Graves values family. And togetherness. And people. Those are not empty catchwords for him or his pr...

It’s hard to believe that one of football’s all-time great quarterbacks was overlooked in high school. But Dan Fouts, who had been around the game his whole life, took advantage of his only scholarship offer and transformed himself into a Duck great. Fouts’ experience before his playing career was one that many looked upon with envy and awe, having dinner with NFL greats and being on the sidelines...

LaMichael James likes to do his own thing. And for Oregon fans and supporters, they are very thankful for that. It brought him to the Pacific Northwest. And it helped him escape an upbringing that would have ruined someone that lacked his independent spirit. James’ story is a fascinating one. Unique. Trail-blazing. And inspiring. But overcoming his hardships was not an easy process. James’ career...

Oregon native Payton Pritchard may not be the most athletic guy in basketball. Or the biggest. But something about the 6’2 guard has pushed his career into what every young player dreams of when they first hold a basketball. A roster spot in the NBA. Pritchard’s meteoric rise from West Linn High School to Oregon Duck to now-Boston Celtic has been astounding. But his beginnings are rooted in a fami...

Rob Mullens’ path to one of the most prominent positions in college athletics began with humble beginnings in rural West Virginia, where his passion for sports grew on lonely baskets, dreaming of making the winning shot for the West Virginia Mountaineers. Don’t let Mullens’ upbringing and journey fool you. He has transformed himself into one of the nation’s best collegiate athletic directors. He’s...

A successful high school career in Phoenix, Arizona brought Kenny Wheaton to the Pacific Northwest, where he was a long way from his family, a main motivating force for Wheaton. But he excelled. He became an All-American. He became the first Duck football player to declare early for the NFL Draft. Football was his success story, and it was going to alleviate the burdens for the people he cared so...

Everything about Sabrina Ionescu is different. She had a different upbringing than others. She began her basketball-playing journey in a different way. She plays the game with a different flare. And her success on the court has bought a bigger audience to the women’s game. She garnered an NCAA-record 26 career triple-doubles, more than twice as many as the previous record holder, BYU’s Kyle Collin...

The official podcast of the Oregon Ducks is coming Dec. 1. There are a lot of great stories that go untold. The Mighty Oregon Podcast changes that by featuring the best Oregon stories from past and present, packaged in a way fans haven't heard before. Join host Rob Moseley as we take you inside the stories of current and former student-athletes, coaches, staff members and fans in a way that's equa...