In an effort to get away from the two themes dominating this blog as of late—Beau and bullets—let us all enjoy this video of the mighty Brandon Roy punking a poor member of the Los Angeles Clippers (forever shall you member the name, Cheikh Samb). Watching that dunk made my night. Link courtesy of our […]
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Blazers vs Wizards – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers take on the Washington Wizards. Washington has the worst record in the NBA (technically they are tied with Oklahoma City for that honor, but I refuse to believe that there is really a professional basketball team in Oklahoma City. The Thunder? It just sounds so […]
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MLS2PDX: Everybody’s Fuckin’ it Up
Howdy crazy folks! I’m sure this post will fall on mostly deaf eyes, since everyone is concentrating on BeauGate, but there’s tons of news and happenings in the world of the Portland Timbers to report! Nevermind that I forgot I’m across the international dateline and woke up too early on the wrong day to watch […]
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Today in Absolutely Awesome Mexican Wrestling
Please President Obama… revise immigration laws to immediately accept all Mexican wrestlers.
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Blazers vs Cavs – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers take on the Lebroneveland Lebronavaliers. Or Cleveland Cavaliers. But really, no offense (no pun attended) to the unstoppable force that is Sasha Pavlovic, but Cleveland is LeBron’s team. Everyone else is just along for the ride, and the paycheck. If you remember this time last […]
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Blazers vs Bucks – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers take on the Milwaukee Bucks. Tonight is the first game back for Portland since Steve Blake’s injury, Jerryd Bayless’ explosion of badassery, and Rudy Fernandez golden ticket to the slam dunkathon. Lots to catch up, let’s get rolling… PRE-GAMETonight marks the final night for Greg […]
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MilesGate Continues, Oregonian Suspiciously Quiet
Another night, another Darius Miles bombshell. After last week’s fallout over Miles, and the millions of dollars in baggage that comes with him, Yahoo has broken the news that the Blazers tried to re-sign Miles last week, after sending out their now infamous threatening letter. Can you sign a player who doesn’t want to be […]
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Blazers vs Warriors – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Darius Miles Memorial Coliseum as the Portland Trail Blazers meet the Golden State Warriors. All the chatter around these parts is focused firmly on Miles, the former Blazer, who has single handily derailed Portland’s season for the past few days. Tonight the Blazers—who are on the verge of becoming about $18 million […]
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Blazers to Every Other NBA Team: Hands off Darius (Or Else)
10:55 am update:The NBA just sent out an email implying that they would—more or less—fully support any team that wants Miles, despite Portland’s legal threats. Also, the owner of the Cavs calls what the Blazers did “dead wrong.” Well, this didn’t end well. When the Portland Trail Blazers ran Darius Miles out on a rail […]
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Blazers vs Pistons – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers welcome home Rasheed Wallace and his Detroit Pistons. Aw, so many memories of ‘Sheed having his way with officials in this arena, I just hope and pray I don’t get a ‘lil misty-eyed when Wallace gets a technical foul and ejected in the third quarter. […]
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MLS2PDX: Hellos and Goodbyes
Hey there lovely people! There’s another MLS2PDX task force meeting on Tuesday the 6th, but there’s enough Player news, MLS Expansion news and sundry items about the Timbers blogosphere for another roundup before the meeting.So watch out Chris Berman, I’m going to run roughshod over your career of nonsensical gesticulations and catch phrases, after the […]
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Blazers vs Hornets – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers take on the pesky insects from the Crescent City, the New Orleans Hornets. As it was earlier this week, the big news is the bum leg tendon of Brandon Roy, who is “doubtful” for tonight’s contest—damn you hamstring—but then again, that didn’t really seem to […]