Monthly Archives: March 2010
Is Brandon Roy Good Enough To Be The Best Player On A Title Team?
I’m finally getting around to answering a question that should influence every move the Blazers make in the coming years: Is Brandon Roy good enough to be the best player on a championship team? Will he ever be good enough? Let’s start with this: Brandon Roy is a great basketball player. He has done everything […]
LeBron James Speaks The Truth
Great quote from LeBron James here, which plays into our blog discussion (see comments) about scoring titles: “If I really wanted to,” James said, “if I really wanted to be the scoring (champion) every single year — every single year — I could really do it. But it doesn’t matter.” Just yesterday I wrote about […]
Paul Allen Speaks Out . . . Sort Of
Only about three days too late, Paul Allen has issued a statement regarding Kevin Pritchard’s job security and says . . . absolutely nothing. Some have postulated that Allen owed it to the fans or owed to Pritchard to make a comment about the situation. That is absurd. Allen didn’t have to say anything, but […]
The Man With The Golden Arm
For no particular reason other than it’s awesome, here’s a story about a man who has saved 2 million babies. Seriously. Thanks to Fark.com for the link.
The Kind Of Guy You Want On Your Team
As Bill Simmons spends 700 pages explaining in “The Book of Basketball,” there can be a difference between being a good NBA player and being a foxhole player — the kind of guy you want to go to war with. Sunday night, Kevin Durant had one of the worst games of his career. He went […]
The Drama Of Sports
Sunday’s column is about Union’s Chris Morgan . . . well, not really. It’s also about a heartbreaking moment in a girls game at last week’s state tournament. Except that it’s not really about that, either. It’s more about the inherent drama that we see every day in sports. You can read it here.
Some Day, None Of This Will Matter, But For Now It Does
Interesting story in The Seattle Times about Portland State women’s coach Sherri Murrell, who after a rocky time at Washington State has found success at PSU and comfort with her sexual orientation. In the interest of full disclosure, Sherri has been a friend of mine since we attended high school together. But I would find […]
Huskies’ Win Is Highly Unusual
Surprise, surprise. Quincy Pondexter was the hero Thursday for the Huskies in their first-round NCAA game. Consider it a victory for a seemingly dying breed: A really good college player who is a fourth-year senior. What? He’s not in the NBA yet? Must be something wrong with him. But Pondexter has gone from 10.7 points […]
Huskies' Win Is Highly Unusual
Surprise, surprise. Quincy Pondexter was the hero Thursday for the Huskies in their first-round NCAA game. Consider it a victory for a seemingly dying breed: A really good college player who is a fourth-year senior. What? He’s not in the NBA yet? Must be something wrong with him. But Pondexter has gone from 10.7 points […]
Jazz vs. Classical
There are so many angles, so many ways to describe Union’s remarkable run to a state title. You know, like, um, “remarkable.” And maybe “stunning” or “shocking” or “how in the world did this happen?” I mean, this was freakin’ unbelievable. We had columns from Friday’s and Saturday’s games here and here. And Paul Valencia […]