The Oregon football team completed its 15th and final spring practice on Wednesday morning at the Moshofsky Center. The Ducks will now wait until Saturday to strap on the pads and play in the annual spring game at Autzen Stadium.

While the game this year lacks some of the drama of last year’s game, the exhibition will still provide Duck fans a unique opportunity to see what the 2013 version of the Oregon football team under Mark Helfrich will look like.

The Register-Guard’s Rob Moseley provides a recap of the final practice and the scoring system for the spring game here.

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Talented Liverpool forward Luis Suarez seemed to be on every major sports outlet on Sunday, but not for a good reason. During a match against Chelsea earlier in the day, Suarez took a bite out of defender Branislav Ivanovic in an attempt to gain position for a ball.

The international soccer community was outraged by Suarez’s antics and on Wednesday morning the England Football Association responded. The EFA decided that a 10-game ban for Suarez would be instituted, and since there are only four games left in the season, it appears as though his 2013 campaign is over.

The penalty for Suarez was extra harsh since this is not his first offense for biting the opposition. In 2010 he was banned for seven matches for biting an opponent when he was playing in the Dutch league.

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The Golden State Warriors notched their first playoff win in six years on Tuesday night when they defeated the Denver Nuggets in Denver 131-117.

Many left the Warriors for dead in the best-of-seven series after they not only lost the opening game on the road to Denver on Sunday night, but also their all-star forward David Lee.

Lee suffered a torn right hip flexor and is done for the rest of the playoffs. To counteract this loss, head coach Mark Jackson went with an extremely small starting lineup and the gamble paid off.

Game three is Friday night in Oakland at 7:30 pm.