Following a shameful home loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night, Juwan Howard went all Joe Pesci in Goodfellas on the Portland locker room. Guess it worked. The Blazers surprised everyone in the basketball world by rolling into Phoenix last night and dispatching the Suns by a score of 108-101. The victory was […]
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Well that wasn’t fun. Last night the NBA’s finest young team showed a glimpse of their awe-inspiring potential… too bad that team wasn’t the Portland Trail Blazers. Instead it was the Oklahoma City Thunder, who easily dispatching the Blazers by a score of 89-77. It was the lowest point total for an exhausted Blazers team […]
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Blazers vs Thunder – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers welcome the Oklahoma City Thunder in the 100th consecutive sold out game in this arena. To celebrate this landmark event, the franchise is handing out free Chalupa coupons—in blatant disregard for the established 100-point rule—to everyone in attendance. Bad idea. Without that goal to aim […]
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Saints Beat Colts, 34 to 31!
Did you realize it’s the year 2010 already? I know! We have shit to do! We’ve gotta, like, go invent dinosaur cyborgs and spaceships that aren’t in any way shaped like penises! We do not have six hours of free time to watch dudes with names like “Peyton” and “Reggie” smash into each other while […]
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In a game that featured no Brandon Roy and no Kobe Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers strolled into the Rose Garden and won for the first time in nearly five years by a score of 99-82. May your deep hatred for the Kardashian family grow even stronger, as Khloe’s husband (Lamar Odom) picked up more […]
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Blazers vs Lakers – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers go for 10 straight homecourt wins against the Los Angeles Lakers. Tonight would be a bit more festive if Brandon Roy wasn’t—right this very second—giving a press conference to discuss his ongoing hamstring injury. While he has missed 11 of the last 12 games, Roy […]
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How did one game go from so boring, to so thrilling, in just a matter of minutes? Last night’s Portland Trail Blazers 96-93 victory over the San Antonio Spurs dragged along until the waning moments of the final quarter until, all of a sudden, the Blazers came alive (like Peter Frampton) and showed themselves the […]
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Blazers vs Spurs – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers welcome the San Antonio Spurs. The Spurs are not too far removed from their championship seasons of yore, although few teams have exposed their age like the youthful (when healthy) Blazers. Portland has won the last four meetings between these two teams, and five of […]
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Super Bowl: Now I Know Who I’m Rooting For
The Saints: On Sunday, Scott Fujita will reach the pinnacle of his football career, playing linebacker for the New Orleans Saints in the Super Bowl. Fujita describes it as “this small moment in time where you have a platform to do some good things.’’ Last fall, that included speaking out in support of gay rights, […]
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Not Your Average Raging Grandma
The Raging Grannies of South Florida sure are riled about CBS agreeing to air an anti-abortion ad during the Superbowl without airing any commercials on the other side of the debate. And they’re gonna sing about it! Aren’t they cute? Via.
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Equality Means Equal Treatment… Even in the Superbowl
In theory, equality means equal treatment, Jonathan, and in practice equality means that mindless, salacious, and moronic ads targeting specifically gay consumers shouldn’t be treated any differently than mindless, salacious, and moronic ads targeting targeting straight consumers. I agree that the stupid ManCrunch ad shouldn’t be “elevated to lunch counter status,” and I haven’t spilled […]
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The Superbowl Ad You Won’t See
Here’s the now famous commercial from gay dating service ManCrunch that CBS has refused to air during the Superbowl. And yet an anti-abortion ad is okay. Is it because two aborted fetuses weren’t making out over a bowl of Doritos?