Pros vs. Joes No. 20: As sportswriters go, “The Godfather” is Kingpin of the mob
What else can I write about Dwight Jaynes? Hey — keep it clean out there.
Hank Aaron has passed, but in my heart, he’ll never be gone
Boyhood heroes never really die, do they?
They live forever, even when the boy himself grows old.
Henry “Hank” Aaron will live forever in my heart, the slugger with the sweet swing and the temperament to match.
On the Trail Blazers’ lousy start, Hassan Whiteside and my former boss, Alabama’s long snapper, a Texas grad assistant and all those $$ tossed around in college football
Things on my mind as we kick off a new (and hopefully far better) year …
• A statistical analysis of the Trail Blazers’ disappointing seven-game start to the 2020-21 campaign portends that the local NBA quintet is fortunate to be 3-4.
The off-season emphasis by general manager Neil Olshey was help at the defensive end, something that was a near-constant during Terry Stotts’ first eight years as coach.
Farewell to the ultimate “behind-the-scenes guy”
On July 3, Bob Gill — probably the state of Oregon’s top sports historian — died from the effects of brain cancer. He was 83.
“He gave it a great fight to the end,” says his daughter, Amy Candello.