Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers take on the Memphis Grizzlies. Every night Portland is getting just a little bit closer to wrapping up an incredible season (and return trip to the playoffs), while Memphis is also looking forward to the end of the season, but for entirely different reasons. The […]
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Things the Internet Hasn’t Ruined: Rollerskating!
I looked for a good rollerskating cat video, but no dice. I might start a new blog series, what do you think? The internet has ruined newspapers, books, music, privacy, sex, and friends, but it hasn’t ruined ROLLER SKATING!!! Some of us editorial staffers—the ones who like fun—went roller skating last night. Oaks Park hasn’t […]
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Blazers vs Suns – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers take on the Phoenix Suns. Phoenix has won six straight, they’re the last team climbing back into the playoff race, and the city itself is a large sprawl of failed American dreams trapped in a merciless valley that bakes beneath the unforgiving sun. But hey, […]
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Another Rose Quarter Redesign Idea
Remember the Blazer’s recently released really horrible “Water is Magic!” redesign idea for the Rose Quarter? Another idea cropped up in the Sunday Oregonian. In a guest column, architect Doug Obletz (who as president of a Portland-based design firm, could have a stake in the redesign if his idea gets traction) says instead of tearing […]
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Blazers vs 76ers – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers take on the Liberty Bell crackin’ Philadelphia 76ers. It’s nice to be back from my untimely three week absence due to kidnapping and forced Mormon deprogramming knee surgery. But I wouldn’t miss the Blazers’ homestretch—and glorious ride to the playoffs—for all the sacred undergarments in […]
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Portland Gets Big Soccer, Fans Piss Selves
It’s official. Portland will get the 18th Major League Soccer franchise in 2011. PORTLAND MLS: WE ARE THE WORLD…WE ARE THE CHILDREN… The announcement was made by MLS commissioner Don Garber (in photo, above, closest to the camera, next to Portland Timbers owner Merritt Paulson, Mayor Sam Adams, and City Commissioner Randy Leonard) to an […]
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Drunken Basketball Jonez
Portland State University is playing in the NCAA tournament today for the second year in a row. They face off against Xavier in Boise, Idaho, at 4:25 pm. I truly enjoy watching basketball, especially if I’m drinking at the same time. The problem is I’m not so great with the lingo. I’m picking it up […]
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MLS2PDX: this is it!
Early last year, some guy named Merritt Paulson showed up in town and bought the Portland Timbers and the Portland Beavers from a Sacramento Real Estate consortium. Not many people had an opinion of him, and the Timbers faithful quickly noticed that the company formed to take ownership was called Shortstop LLC. As a group […]
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Hot Live Blog Action – Nets vs Blazers
Here we are, once again at the Rose Garden, this time welcoming the New Jersery Swamps, I mean the New Jersey Club Shirts… no, wait, it’s the Nets. That’s right. Good Lord though, if any team could be re-named… The New Jersey Sopranos? The New Jersey Manhattan’s Buttholes? If you’ll excuse me, I’m still trying […]
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Blazers Want “24 Hour Entertainment District” in Rose Quarter
“Water is magic.” That is the cringe-inducing motto of the development company the Blazers are partnering with to revision the Rose Quarter. According to an article in Portland’s Bizjournal, the Blazers and California-based developers Cordish Company are planning “to remake the 36-acre Rose Quarter as an entertainment-themed district alive with activity 24 hours a day, […]
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Blazers Backstage
A peek into the locker rooms and back halls of the Rose Garden after last night’s loss to the Dallas Mavericks:
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Hot Live Blog Action – Mavs vs Blazers
The difference is striking—compared with Monday’s high-pitched blood match against the Lakers, this evening at the Rose Garden feels more like an afternoon at a hippie commune. And so goes the comedown. The trick is to stay just high enough to knock off these assholes from Texas, led by the big ugly German. That’s right, […]