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STOP CALLING DONALD TRUMP A BOOMER GODFATHER

Leopard spots and zebra stripes don’t change. Donald Trump does.   Born in 1946, Donald Trump is a leading edge baby boomer.   His years were prime time hippie-era where you set free what you loved to see if it came back, or not.   How did he miss the boat on sex, drugs, and […]

HARRY POTTER, WIZARD ROYALTY OR SPORTS HERO

Game changers: Harry Potter, Muhammad Ali, O. J. Simpson. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone showed author J.K. Rowling as a sports writer. Her narration of the games played at Hogwarts was as riveting as any slick play by play. She showed Quidditch in the same light as Al Michaels calling the Miracle On Ice, […]

7 WAYS TO JOIN A MILITIA THAT MATTERS

Join a militia expecting things to go right? Then join the right militia. First, look in the mirror. Take a good, long, look. Do you see an eighteen year old? Nineteen or twenty? Or do you see a forty or fifty year old? Maybe sixty? Either way, ask yourself if you really want to join […]

BOOMER LEADERSHIP STILL LEADS

You Get Older And Wonder When Boomer Leadership Ends? It Doesn’t. Chances are good that you’ve been in the audience for a big presentation. It might have been a work related pep rally, a concert, or a spiritual event. Do you remember the speaker at the event, the band? You do if they reached you […]

AS THE BLAZER FALLS

Not The New Guys, The Blazer Quitters. The numbers don’t look good. Eighty percent of last years Portland Trail Blazer starting five left town. Of that 80%, half wrote goodbye letters to Blazer fans. In their blind love affair with the NBA, 110% of the fans read those letters. Twice. Do you write a letter […]

ROSE FESTIVAL BAR FLY RULES

The Rose Festival Parade Always Starts With The Right Intentions. If the sun’s out on parade day, Portland looks better than ever. Big Pink grows out of yellowed brick if you find the right parking place. The right parking place for Rose Festival is a big deal. Park in the wrong place and you get […]

MARCUS MARIOTA: WORTH WHAT?

Freddie Coleman Asks His ESPN Radio Listeners: What’s Marcus Mariota Worth? A man from New Jersey came on 1080 The Fan Tuesday night. Between 9 and 9:30 Pacific Time, which is 12:00-12:30 his time, the Jersey Boy said Marcus Mariota is worth mortgaging your team the next five years for. Keep in mind his team […]

OKC THUNDER AND STARBUCKS

The Coffee Man and OKC Thunder Share A Cup. Before they morphed into the OKC Thunder, your NBA Oklahoma City Thunder, they were the Seattle Supersonics. Everybody knows this, or ought to. The Sonics were Portland’s best rival on the west coast. Better than the Warriors who just spanked the Blazers, better than the Kings, […]

OREGON PROSECUTORS AT REST

With Each Other? Office affairs, romances, attractions? Happens all the time. Single people dating each other is normal. Dinner? Drinks? Taking a walk? Growing a network and connecting the dots couldn’t be more exciting. Oregon prosecutors looking down the road need all the help they can get. By getting closer they learn more about their […]

A Gathering Of Oregon Sports News Writers

Part Of The Oregon Sports News Writing Crew. According to legend the most difficult task for online people is climbing out of their basement and actually going someplace. A google search doesn’t qualify as ‘going’ someplace. Meeting others at a particular time and place qualifies as going someplace. Joel Stein, writer for Time Magazine, understands […]