Blazers bag a big win, but this game was about Dame
In an NBA regular season, every team plays 82 games. Some of them are big, a few of them really big.
On Austin Maurer, Clyde Drexler, Joey Crawford, Beaver football (and the Attrition Bowl) and the greatest Duck QBs of them all
Winding up the old year as we head into a new one …
On the Corvallis Knights, Pac-4, Scott Barnes, Roberto Nelson, Damon Stoudamire, Jordan Kent and more …
This and that about a lot of things going on in our sporting world …
Blazers’ route? They’re going with Scoot
The Trail Blazers made the move they consider best for the franchise Thursday night during the NBA draft.
Blazers end another forgetful season — and now the work begins
If they get the No. 1 pick in the June 22 draft — they have a 10.5 percent chance — they will take 7-4 French wunderkind Victor Wembanyama. And keep him.
On Dan Hurley, Lillard and the number zero, tanking, Aldridge, Rutschman and Kwan
Fodder for your sports weekend …
2022 Year In Review Part II: The ten stories that deserve a second look
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Lillard is Blazers’ biggest scorer — Who is the G.O.A.T player for the Trail Blazers?
The wait is over. In his 11th NBA season, Damian Lillard is the Trail Blazers’ career scoring leader, having passed Clyde “The Glide” Drexler last week at Oklahoma City.
On Las Vegas Bowl, Lillard’s record, D-I hoops and Les Schwab Invitational
Tidbits on a number of items around Christmas time …
KPTV’s Krupke on the scene for first Schonely book event
Sunday was Bill Schonely night at Moda Center.
On the surging Blazers, Duck and Beaver football and ex-Winterhawks heading for Seattle
Items of interest swirling around the dusty brain of a sportswriter …
Blazers’ focus is Sharpe in what they hope is a major draft night coup
The important phrase to remember: “Time will tell.”
Schonz calls it a career: ‘Good night, everybody!’
As would be expected, Bill Schonely did not have the most restful night of sleep on Sunday.
Blazers are losers —And they’re tryin’ to be
It has been the strangest of seasons for the Trail Blazers, who have been around longer than Rubik’s Cube, push-through beer can tops and the digital camera.
Larry Brown looks out front window, lands on Memphis Tigers’ bench
Larry Brown is more than a basketball lifer.
Pros vs. Joes No. 13: Despite the Blazers’ rocky road, Brooke Olzendam’s having a ball
If there is a poster person of popularity among fans in the Trail Blazers organization these days, it’s probably not a player or coach.
Pros vs. Joes No. 2: Lester Conner is taking on a new experience in old stomping grounds
It had been more than three decades since Lester Conner called the Oakland area home.
Pros vs. Joes No. 1: Brian Wheeler is all in on ‘Pros vs. Joes’ challenge
Brian Wheeler hasn’t called play-by-play for an NBA team since being let go by the Trail Blazers after a 21-year run in 2019.
Talking All-Star Game to Portland (nope), Geoff Petrie and Jerry West, Gary Payton and Lester Conner, The Kamikaze Kids … and more
Items on my mind during the chilly final days of February …
• Thought for the day provided by Frank “The Flake” Peters, at 78 still a juvenile at heart:
My thoughts on the NBA’s Top 75, the dozen greatest players ever, and another 10 for good measure
The All-Star Weekend’s cavalcade of events in Cleveland will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the NBA.