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A REAL FOOTBALL NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP CONVERSATION

If your team’s not in the college football national championship, who do you cheer for? “What are the teams playing for the college football national championship?” Alabama and Clemson. “Clemson? Where are they from?” It’s South Carolina’s version of Oregon State. “So it’s South Carolina?” That’s where Clemson is. South Carolina are the Gamecocks. You […]

WHO READS A GUN VIOLENCE POST?

Who writes a gun violence post? Responsible bloggers need to put their niche aside for a moment to address one of the pressing issues of our time. Gun violence. If you do write such a post, and I hope you do, be prepared for a particular reader and a particular comment. If you post a […]

OREGON DUCK FOOTBALL MISSION

Win The Game And Win The Hearts And Minds. Mostly The Minds. Oregon Duck football left Arizona with a triple overtime win last night. This is a team recognized in the past five years as a fashion trendsetter. Add two appearances in the college football finals, BCS and otherwise, and the Ducks come away looking […]

PARADE MAGAZINE: MILLENNIALS VS BOOMERS

You Know It’s Over When Parade Magazine Chimes In. Who reads Parade Magazine today? It comes in the Sunday paper so it’s not hard to find. Call it the Saturday Evening Post of the newsroom, except it’s not in the print death throes you hear so much about. Tackling a subject like Millennials vs Boomers […]

BOOMER FUTURE, WITH BELLS

Paolo Soleri Sets The Stage With A Desert Vision Of Boomer Future. It might be a Star Wars set, a home on a distant planet, but it’s not. Instead you see the cement/earthen buildings of Cosanti in Arizona. Some of you might mistake Arizona for a distant planet, and you wouldn’t be far off. With […]

PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS WHINE?

When it comes to root canals Portland baby boomers aren’t the only whiners. After a visit to the local endodontist for some root work it was a choice of pain meds or VooDoo juice. Is there really a choice when you’ve got VooDoo brand wine in the house? Seriously, is there a better time for […]

OREGON’S WRESTLING WEEKEND

Putting Pride On The Line. The sound you hear in Oregon, all up and down the west coast, comes from wrestling families. It’s championship weekend. Oregon high school wrestlers meet on the mats inside Memorial Coliseum starting Friday. By Saturday night every place on the podium will be filled, all medals hung. Sunday the big […]

10 BOOMERPDX LESSONS FROM THE 2014 NFL SEASON

Be Smarter In 2015.  10. Smart coaches hire smarter assistants. And stay out of their way. Teams don’t get better with retread coaches barking the same song. George Allen isn’t walking through that door. Mike Ditka and Jimmy Johnson off the ‘for hire’ list for a reason? Who in your life drains the joy and […]

COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS DONE RIGHT IN OREGON

Originally posted on Oregon Sports News. The College Football Playoffs’ final four works out for Oregon as long as the past stays in the closet. They lost to the SEC before, Auburn and LSU in a short 2011 time frame? Lock that door. Lost to Ohio State in the 2010 Rose Bowl? Nail it shut. […]

IS EVERYONE A HEISMAN CANDIDATE?

While the college football season winds down we wait for the answer to who is the best football player in 2014. The magic words that often doom a professional career are, “And the 2014 Heisman Trophy Award goes to….” By now you’ve heard too many coaches say they have a Heisman candidate playing for them. […]