Give A Little, Change A Lot!
Resolve to support local journalism in 2026.

Donate Now

Sports
Posted inNews

A Portland Curler’s Fight For Her Right to Compete 

By controlling the purse strings and federal oversight, the Trump administration is upending participation in sports for trans women and girls across the nation—even at amateur and club levels.
Avatar photo by Courtney Vaughn

By controlling the purse strings and federal oversight, the Trump administration is upending participation in sports for trans women and girls across the nation—even at amateur and club levels. Sarah Maywalt remembers finding herself mesmerized while watching a Canadian broadcast channel in the late 1990s. On the TV: curling– the quirky game that sees competitors […]

Posted inSports

Anatomy of a March Madness Upset

Two days of Moda Center Madness inside the student section of High Point University, the school no one in Portland knew about.
Avatar photo Cameron Crowell

High Point University (12-seed) is down one with under a minute to go playing the heavily favored University of Wisconsin (5-seed). The High Point Panthers have yet to win a single game in the March Madness NCAA men’s basketball tournament since the tournament’s 1939 conception.  Star guard Nick Boyd dribbles the ball up the court […]

Posted inSports

True Basketball Sickos Descend on Portland

NCAA March Madness kicks off this week with games at Moda Center 
Avatar photo Cameron Crowell

March Madness is here. If you are a true basketball sicko you’ve probably already called out of work to watch the first two rounds of National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) tournament play, starting Thursday, March 19. If you’re not a basketball sicko and just looking for some high octane fun, play hooky and watch along. […]

Posted inFood and Drink

Damian Lillard Opens a Sports Bar in a Swanky Downtown Portland Hotel

Honorable Mention is now open in the basement of the Benson.
Katherine Chew Hamilton

Blazers star and hometown hero Damian Lillard is bringing Dame Time to the local food and drink scene. On Friday, March 6, Lillard and his business partners officially opened Honorable Mention, a sports bar—actually, it calls itself a luxury sports lounge—in the basement of the historic Benson Hotel in downtown Portland. Honorable Mention features vaulted ceilings, round […]

Posted inSports

Timbers Preview: A Season of Questions

Ahead of their season opener this weekend, it’s not clear that the Timbers have done enough to rejoin the ranks of the elite in 2026.
Avatar photo Abe Asher

The Portland Timbers won their first playoff game in four years last fall, but the 2025 season was otherwise largely a disappointment.  After a relatively strong start, the Timbers won just two of their final 14 games—limping to a middling eighth place finish in the Western Conference and doing little to arrest the notion that […]

Posted inPhoto Essay

Spectators and Players, Portland Is a Ping-Pong Town

Major League Table Tennis matches make it clear: The hype for ping-pong shouldn’t end at Marty Supreme. 
Corbin Smith

There’s a scene in the recent hit movie Marty Supreme in which Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), an American table tennis champion and inveterate liar getting by on the skin of his teeth in post-WWII America, is seeking capital from a wealthy man, hoping to grow the game he loves and his own prestige. At one […]

Posted inThe Trail Blazers

An Ode to Becoming the Most Annoying Team in the NBA

The Blazers are the new face of basketball’s latest defensive trend.
Avatar photo Cameron Crowell

The Oklahoma City Thunder came to the Moda Center Wednesday, November 5. The defending NBA champs. 8-0 start to the season. A swarming defense that is once again the best in the NBA. Last season’s MVP, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, a savant at getting his defenders to foul him, has given lesser teams fits. And a 16-game […]

Gift this article