Live from the sold out Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers take on the Houston Rockets in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs. Let me open up my big book of sports cliches—actually I just stole this copy off John Canzano’s seat—to properly explain the situation the Blazers are in: Back against […]
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PTFC2k9: back on the grind
The Portland Timbers started up their 2009 campaign on Saturday in Burnaby British Columbia, against The Whitecaps, a 0-1-2 team that had played a few games before the Timbers got a chance to launch their season: the pleasures of USL scheduling. As I covered in the pregame column, this Timbers team kept only a handful […]
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PTFC2K9: Cautious Optimism
The Portland Timbers Season kicks off with an away game against USL-1 regional rivals the Vancouver Whitecaps, this Saturday at 7pm up in that there Canader. I can’t help but be excited. So much has changed for the Timbers in the last two years, and may be the deepest, strongest, most talented squad we’ve ever […]
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Blazers vs Rockets – Hot Live (Playoff) Blog Action
Live from the sold out Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers take on the Houston Rockets in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs. Just in case you missed Saturday’s Yaosplosion (much better than Yaosploitation), here is a photo I took of the massacre in progress. Shortly after that was taken, Joel Pryzbilla […]
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Name My Blazers Column and Win a Prize!
Hello friends. It would seem that the powers that be have given yours truly his very own Blazers playoff column in the paper. The bad news—other than the fact that it might only run this one week—is that I do not have a name for this column. Since I’m creatively bankrupt, and we’re going to […]
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Blazers vs Rockets – Hot Live (Playoff) Blog Action
Live from the sold out Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers take on the Houston Rockets in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs. After years of live blogging an endless array of absolutely meaningless games, we’ve reached the promised land. Tonight counts. PRE-GAME:We’ve been haphazardly blogging the Trail Blazers’ games since way […]
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Now That’s Stadium Food
I’ve had a foot long with the works and an Old Style at Wrigley Field. I’ve had a barbecued turkey leg and a pulled pork sandwich at Busch Stadium. I’ve had bratwurst at Miller Park. I’ve eaten more garlic fries and hot dogs on the cusp of cool green ball fields than I ever would […]
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The Sports Bar Post
There is no way in hell I’m going to get a ticket for the playoffs. I didn’t have enough pre-thought to begin waiting in line two days ago to buy one today, I don’t have the exorbitant amount of cash needed to procure one from an unscrupulous Craigslist scalper, and my season ticket holder friends […]
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Blazertastic! D’oh!
My camera just shat the bed down at Pioneer Square. This is the only photo I managed to get of the Blazers’ bus arriving, on my cellphone, before deciding you’d probably take better ones. So if you’ve got some that warrant blog publication and capture the boisterous atmosphere, email ’em over. With apologies for lameness. […]
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Yao Coming
So, it’s official. The Houston Rockets are coming to town. It’s not the most ideal matchup for the Trail Blazers, but hey, it’s the playoffs! Rip City Uprise! Blaze the Trail Cat tried to dunk a ball while on rollerblades! WOOOOOO!! Um, here is the playoff schedule: Game 1 – Sat. 4/18 @ Portland – […]
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“It Ain’t Easy, Brother.”
The newest issue of Rolling Stone contains a remarkable article about the downfall of Terry Bollea, better known as pro wrestler Hulk Hogan. “Hulk at Twilight,” by Erik Hedegaard, doesn’t pull any punches as it examines the 55-year-old Hogan at this stage in his life: “My tailbone is bent from landing on my ass, 400 […]
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Your (Sort Of) Definitive Guide to the Blazers’ Playoff Seeding
LaMarcus “Texas Instrument” Aldridge, seen here dunking the TI-80. Let me drag out my abacus and TI-80 graphing calculator (I need both) to crunch some numbers and inform you what team the Portland Trail Blazers will play in the first round of the NBA playoffs (which start this weekend, by the way). This is ridiculously […]