On Kevin Calabro and Jordan Kent, the sports broadcasting scene in Portland, Ime Udoka, James Allen, the Cambia Portland Classic and much more …
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On Kevin Calabro and Jordan Kent, the sports broadcasting scene in Portland, Ime Udoka, James Allen, the Cambia Portland Classic and much more …

Knocking it around on a potpourri of sports topics …

• Kevin Calabro’s return to the broadcasting booth with the Trail Blazers is not a done deal.

The Blazers, who let Jordan Kent go last week as their TV play-by-play announcer, have extended an offer in principle to Calabro, who served as their TV play-by-play man from 2016-20 but gave up his job during the COVID-19-interrupted 2020 campaign.

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I’m no fan of no fans at Moda, and neither is Damian Lillard
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I’m no fan of no fans at Moda, and neither is Damian Lillard

Having left the newspaper business in April after 45 years, I’d not been to a Trail Blazer game at Moda Center until Sunday’s date with the New York Knicks.

Portland PR honchos Jim Taylor and Jake Gifford were good enough to credential me and allow me to experience first-hand what it’s like to be in an NBA arena without fans due to COVID-19.

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Something new: A weekly menu of sports book reviews
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Something new: A weekly menu of sports book reviews

As a service to our readers — the ones who enjoy sports books — we’ll critique an offering a week from now until Christmas.

The first one is a book written by one of my favorite writers and a great guy familiar to sports fans in this area. Bud Withers worked for a long time for the Seattle Times and P-I, but before that was with the Register-Guard in Eugene, where he came across one of the most polarizing figures ever to hit the Northwest college basketball scene.

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