Neil Everett is digging ‘Jerome Kersey: Overcoming the Odds’
Neil Everett has long followed the Portland Trail Blazers. The veteran ESPN SportsCenter anchor was born in Portland (though raised in Spokane), schooled at Willamette University and the University of Oregon and owns a vacation home with wife Stephanie in Seaside.
Talking the ‘Civil War,’ Kevin Love, Keanon Lowe, coaching payouts and the film “Just Mercy”…
Covering a few sporting issues on my my mind this week …
Officials at Oregon State and Oregon have announced that the term “Civil War” will no longer be used in connection with the sports rivalry between the schools.
The original Trail Blazer is gone
I’m guessing Harry Glickman stood 5-10, but he was a giant of a man.
Blazer fans recognize him as the gravel-voiced, warm-hearted executive who paved the way toward Portland getting its only franchise in the big four major sports leagues.
Glickman, who died Wednesday at age 96, was the patriarch of the Trail Blazers. But he was much more than that.