Photo borrowed from the blog Jargon Scott Nishimura is all smiles. Click for more amazing Timbers pictures Hi Folks, your itinerant Timbers Blogger is reporting in from a remote jungle location. I had to bribe a monkey with cigarettes and a rickshaw driver with bananas to get to an internet cafe to post this, but […]
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Blazers Media Day Report
Oh, I totally forgot how boring media day can be. Not only was the buffet totally snooze-worthy—Turkey wraps?—the Q&A sessions tend to drag on for far too long. To summarize: Pretty much everyone wants to play (even Bayless, how cute), they have all been working “really hard” in the off-season, and Greg Oden liked the […]
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Blazers Media Day!
Today is a big day for us Blazers stalkers, as it’s the team’s official media day and our first opportunity to ask the players if they plan on giving it 110% (or the inferior 109%). Blogtown will be there with team coverage (we heard there might be a buffet with king crab legs) and our […]
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Are You Man Enough?
Man enough for roller derby, that is? Now that the resurgence of women’s roller derby has reached critical mass (you know you’re playing an established sport when Drew Barrymore makes a movie about it), the Rose City Rollers are letting the boys into their tree house. Tonight is the first men’s derby bout in Oregon, […]
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Rudy Fernandez vs. Nicolas Batum… WHO YA GOT?!?
While the rest of the Portland Trail Blazers spend their off-season comfortable resting perched atop large piles of cash, the team’s European contingent is battling it out overseas. Today at noon, the Spanish national team (lead by the handsome Rudy Fernandez, and the far less handsome Pau Gasol) take on the French national team (lead […]
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Meet the Mercury’s New Mascot!
Hey guys! Guess what?? I just bought the Mercury a LIVE BEAR on eBay!! As you know, we’ve been in dire need of a half-way decent mascot for quite a while now (Sorry Ezra, but pugs don’t make decent doorstops, let alone mascots), and get a load of the one I scored! His name is […]
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PTFC2K9: The Streak is Dead, Long Live the Streak
The Portland Timbers went into Thursday’s game with a 24 game unbeaten streak in USL play—they hadn’t lost since the first game of the season—but also barely escaped Charleston 0-0 on the road the week before, playing a style of play that could be charitably described as lethargic. The Timbers were at the top of […]
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Maurice Lucas Returns
The O is reporting that longtime knuckle-dragger, and big man developer, Maurice Lucas will return to the Portland Trail Blazers’ bench this season. This is excellent news not only for Lucas and his ongoing health issues—he missed nearly the entire 2008-09 season due to bladder cancer surgery—but for the Blazers as well. In addition to […]
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And Now For Something Completely Different, Or: Rambling, Unfocused Coverage of UFC 102
Falling somewhere between boxing’s sport and the commissioner controlled, TV entertainment of WWE, the UFC is a strange beast. It might seem an awkward fit in Portland’s bohemian, art-first, hipster-laden interior circle (without fail, every time it’s brought up my girlfriend can’t help but mention how homo-erotic and clearly stupid it appears). But Saturday’s fight, […]
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The Trail Blazers’ 40th Anniversary Jerseys Are U-G-L-Y
It’s been nearly a couple weeks since the Portland Trail Blazers announced the throwback attire to commemorate their 40th year of roundball, and as much as I want to like their new look, I still think the jerseys are uglier than Ha Seung-Jin’s face. Granted, the Blazers red jersey is a classic, but alongside the […]
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Best Use for Memorial Coliseum
It’s been suggested that a velodrome be installed in the Memorial Coliseum. Frankly, that sounds more than a little boring. However, if the Coliseum were turned into the Northwest’s premier Indoor Synchronized Bike Riding venue, well then, that would be a whole different story. As you can see from the video below, Synchronized Indoor Bike […]
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Utopia Is a Matter of Taste: Welcome to Skatopia.
If I took one thing from a preview screening of Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy at Plan B this week, it’s this: When it comes to utopia, there’s a fine line between a place where everyone lives in blissful harmony, and one that’s perfect to you. Generally, the latter type is abhorrent to everyone else. […]