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NBA HOME TO PORTLAND

June 26, 2015 by

Home. It’s a warm word with sweet references. Home is warm and sweet like a cup of hot chocolate on Hawthorne. Sweet and warm like a pot of comfort tea in the Pearl. Home in the NBA used to mean wherever you got drafted. That’s why it’s called the home court. Then LeBron left Cleveland. […]

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PORTLAND WINS FOR AMERICA

May 14, 2015 by

Why America Needs Portland In The NBA Finals. How many times did you see the San Antonio River Walk last year during the Spurs run? The Alamo? After four playoff rounds, what else is there to see? From the first series to the last the River Walk looked better and better, but it got a […]

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LaMARCUS AT LARGE

May 1, 2015 by

Why The Spurs Need LaMarcus Aldridge More Than Portland. It’s been nine years. Nine years with LaMarcus Aldridge as the reluctant star. If he hasn’t assumed his proper position as an NBA champ in Portland, he deserves to get there someplace else. Look at LA’s face and you see the drive to greatness. He wants […]

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DAMIAN LILLARD GETS FIRED UP

April 23, 2015 by

Rajon Rondo A Better Blazer Than Damian Lillard? The last playoff game in Memphis didn’t go well. Neither did the first. That’s the NBA. Teams click, then they don’t, and everyone finds a player to blame. In Portland that player is Damian Lillard. The poor guy becomes a household name, gets a ton of press, […]

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TRAIL BLAZERS TAKE A LOW BLOW

April 2, 2015 by

One Trail Blazer knows how to give it, one how to take it. If ever a team needed a solid stiff arm on the way to victory it was Portland Wednesday night in the Moda Center. Instead, it was the Los Angeles Clippers’ Chris Paul delivering the winning shot. In more ways than one. During […]

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1080 THE FAN GOES ON A HOST HUNT

January 19, 2015 by

Admit it, you’ve been in someone’s car with sports talk radio on and thought, “Please just shut up.” But they don’t turn it down. The driver won’t change the station. You don’t ask. The radio hosts keep repeating things three times. You wonder who the last two are for since you heard it the first […]

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FOR THE LOVE OF PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS

November 5, 2014 by

A Haters’ Review. The love/hate relationship with sports comes into full blossom when a player leaves a team. Some leave with remorse, some leave with bitterness. All agree it’s part of the business. So what’s it about Portland that leaves such a bad feeling in some players? Why do some NBA guys take a shot […]

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WHY THE RAGE AGAINST GREATNESS?

June 12, 2014 by

Find a map that shows Miami Heat fans. It looks like one spot in Florida like the Heat. The rest of the nation pulls for San Antonio. Why? Could be everyone hates on LeBron. Or Miami. Or The Decision. For one group of fans, it’s none of the above. Older fans don’t want to hear […]

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SPORTS TALK RADIO IN PORTLAND

May 14, 2014 by

The rise of sports talk radio, the sort found on the  Portland AM dial at 620, 750, and 1080, gives a green light to fans who ought to have a yellow or red light. In a ploy to reach across gender lines, radio stations employ high-talking hosts who could be male or female on any […]

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INTRODUCING THE SEATTLE CLIPPERS

April 29, 2014 by

The Seattle Supersonics left town under a cloud of Oklahoma dust. An ownership group made a run at the Sacramento Kings. Have they given up? The Milwaukee Bucks were interesting enough to hope for, but they decided to stay put. One thing we’ve all learned about the modern NBA the past few days is how […]

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