Wednesday was the deadline for submitting formal bids to Major League Soccer for the next round of expansion, in 2011. Rumors have been flying across the interwebs about who would be in the running; we now know who Merritt Paulson and company are up against. It’s a daunting list. The announcement came on the official […]
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Blazers vs Jazz – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers take on the Utah Jazz in completely meaningless pre-season basketball. But good news, kids, this is the final (home) pre-season contest for Portland, and this afternoon’s game will be the Blazers’ first look at their division rival, the swinging’ Jazz cats from Utah. The shape […]
Your Daily Reminder That David Fincher Is An Amazing Director.
Wieden and Kennedy’s latest ad for Nike, directed by David Fincher: Goddamn. Fincher’s next film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, comes out on Christmas Day. Thanks to Ezra for the heads up. UPDATE: Never mind. Nike yanked it. Because it makes perfect sense to keep people from seeing a really great ad that makes […]
Is This Travis Outlaw’s New Whip?
Indeed it is. This “Jolly Rancher green” 1996 Impala is a really something–although it sort of looks like the Incredible Hulk threw it up–and while I’m a little confused on why the gentle, if not downright goofy, Outlaw went with the whole airbrushed evil skull shooting the playing cards motif, I’m just jealous that this […]
MLS2PDX plans see the light of day
Hi Folks, it’s me, your trusty PTFC blogger here on Blogtown. You haven’t heard much from me since the last home game, because, well, the Timbers finished the season at the bottom of the table and missed the playoffs for the second time in three years. It was a season many of us would prefer […]
Blazers vs Warriors – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden–where for some reason every preseason game feels like the playoffs–as the Portland Trail Blazers take on the Golden State Warriors. After last night’s clowning of a hapless Kings team, the Blazers are UNDEFEATED in the meaningless preseason (1-0), and this unbiased reporter feels confident in going on the record and […]
Blazers vs Kings – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as it’s the most unimportant important NBA game in recent memory–the Portland Trail Blazers versus the Sacramento Kings. Granted, pre-season basketball is not as essential as the Presidential debates, or a rerun of According to Jim (on in 30 minutes on KPDX! Synopsis: It’s Cheryl and Jim’s anniversary, and one […]
¡Hola Rudy!
Rudy Fernandez–the chiseled-jawed future of the Blazers (like Greg Oden, en espanol)–got introduced to the giddy Portland media this afternoon. Fresh off the plane, where a large crowd greeted him at PDX, and with his mom in the front row, Fernandez was a little shell-shocked at first, but opened up a bit as the media […]
David Foster Wallace: 1962-2008. (Part Four of Five.)
It’s the finals of the 2005 U.S. Open, Federer serving to Andre Agassi early in the fourth set. There’s a medium-long exchange of groundstrokes, one with the distinctive butterfly shape of today’s power-baseline game, Federer and Agassi yanking each other from side to side, each trying to set up the baseline winner… until suddenly Agassi […]
The Blazers Want to Hear You Sing
Want to sing about the rocket’s red glare while surrounded by a sold out Rose Garden crowd? Well, Enrico Palazzo, now is your chance. Just remember, Mo Cheeks won’t be there to bail you out. But then again, you couldn’t do any worse than Oden. TRAIL BLAZERS TO HOLD OPEN ANTHEM AUDITIONSEvent is open to […]
No Playoffs for the Timbers: Timbers 1 Charleston 2
Coming in to last night’s game, the Timbers had managed to screw their chances at the playoffs. The Timbers held their fate in their own hands 4 games ago, needing 10 points from five games. Then they completely shit the bed, losing to Montreal and Rochester after the stunning 4-0 defeat of Miami FC. Still, […]
Greg Oden Makes You Forget About MusicFest NW
The most popular Blazer to never play a single minute in the NBA, Greg Oden spent this Saturday at the Rose Garden hosting an event for “Team Oden” mentors. There were games, autographs for the kids, a clown making balloon animals shaped like Brandon Roy’s arthroscopic repaired knee, and the ultimate party treat: Karaoke. Never […]
