Author: Staff

Steve Kelley of The Seattle Times reminds us that before Lin-sanity, there was Blazers legend Billy Ray Bates. Bates made a Jeremy Lin-sized splash on the NBA in 1980, arriving by […]

Yikes! The Blazers allow 124 points to . . . Washington?!? But while the wheels have come off the Blazer Bus, Nicolas Batum is on a roll. With 33 points […]

Really good analysis from Bill Simmons, writing about LaMarcus Aldridge. Simmons was explaining who he would pick for the All-Star Game, and he compared Aldridge to Blake Griffin: "If we're just […]

Fun with trivia, in the wake of LaMarcus Aldridge's All-Star selection. — Aldridge is the 15th different Blazer to be picked for the All-Star Game, encompassing a total of 34 selections. — […]

So, some guy named Christopher Hansen apparently is a San Francisco hedge-fund manager. And apparently he's pretty good at it, because apparently he's rich. Really rich. Like, rich enough to […]

And now for something completely different: Russian scientists are close to breaking through the ice of Antarctica and making contact with a sub-glacial lake that hasn't been exposed to outside […]

And now for something completely different: Russian scientists are close to breaking through the ice of Antarctica and making contact with a sub-glacial lake that hasn't been exposed to outside […]

A lot of really poignant passages in Matt Calkins' profile of Blazers' announcer Brian Wheeler. If you haven't read it yet, you should. For me, this section really stood out: "Wheeler, […]

Saturday's column about Joe Paterno generated an e-mail from a reader who chastised me for simultaneously criticizing and praising the late coach. Which, you know, was kind of the point. Because […]

Good insight from Dwight Jaynes about Nic Batum's future with the Blazers. The Blazers have until Jan. 25 to sign Batum to an extension. If no agreement is reached by […]