Oregon’s football season obviously got off to a terrible start on the field and off Thursday night at Boise State, but the university deserves credit for its response to the LeGarrette Blount fiasco. The school suspended Blount for the season, which I think was the right move. Any less would have left the wrong impression, [...]
Dante Cunningham wasn’t drafted in the first round, but he still doesn’t have to worry about his immediate future after signing a multi-year contract Friday with the Portland Trail Blazers. This is a best-case scenario for a second-round draft pick such as Cunningham. According to reports, he impressed the Trail Blazers’ staff with his performance [...]
There is no surprise that the Trail Blazers and Brandon Roy have agreed on a contract extension that will likely keep the all-star guard in Portland for the next six seasons. It is a bit surprising that the deal took so long to come together, although we knew it couldn’t be signed before the Blazers [...]
Co-worker Jessica Coudare looked up from her desk yesterday and said in disbelief, “Did you know there is football this weekend?” Yes, it’s true. The NFL preseason kicks off Sunday with the Hall of Fame game at Canton, Ohio, between the Buffalo Bills and the Tennessee Titans. I love football and I miss it badly, [...]
I’m just getting caught up a bit after being off last week. It was a nice week off, spent up in the Cascades with my dad and my son. We fished, hiked, ate some pretty good camp food and generally had a good time. It seemed extremely hot for the mountains, but it was nothing [...]
The city of Albany has extended the deadline for its fall softball league to 6 p.m. today. To get your team signed up, call 917-7773. League play is scheduled to begin next week.
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One day after telling you there might not be any Trail Blazer news to report for awhile there seems to be some news [...]
The weeks immediately after the NBA Finals are concluded aren’t really an offseason for the NBA. The draft usually takes place within about a week of the last game and then you go into the free agent signing period and the NBA summer leagues in Orlando and Las Vegas. Now that the summer leagues are [...]
NBA teams are allowed to start wooing free agents at midnight tonight, Eastern time. Players won’t be able to sign actual contracts for another week, but they can certainly reach agreements with teams. That brings us to the question of what Portland will be doing tonight at 9:01 PDT. According to the reports floating all [...]
Wilt Chamberlain used to say that no one roots for Goliath and he certainly had a point. But there is one Goliath in the league today that it’s awfully hard not to like, Yao Ming. The Chinese giant has been everything the Houston Rockets could have hoped when they made him the No. 1 pick [...]
If Portland is going to really improve its roster this summer, trades and free agent signings will have to be the tools because the draft did not provide the answer. It looks like the first-round pick, Spanish forward Victor Claver, will be staying in Europe for at least a year. I like the pick of [...]
