The Vig

Congratulations to the Portland Winter Hawks on their first home ice win of the season, a hard fought victory over the Saskatoon Blades.  As Andy pointed out the other night, going into the game the Hawks were winless at home while the Blades were winless on the road.  Something had to give.  And it did.  [...]

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Had another Channing Frye encounter last night.  He’s definitely my favorite player now.  Definitely.
I’m trying to get a Frye jersey on NBA.com, but there are two problems.

The ordering page still shows last year’s roster.  No Oden and no Frye.  Blazers.com has the Oden jersey, but no Frye.  Both the NBA and the Blazers have Jamaal [...]

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From Sports Media Watch via The Fanhouse:
While ESPN has not officially released its NBA announcing schedule — it may do so in the next few days — the team of Scott, Walton and Smith could be the trio ESPN goes with for the balance of the season. A listing of NBA announcers for the first [...]

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First it was Oden’s knee.  Then it was Brandon Roy’s heel.  Now LaMarcus’ pinkie toe is all the rage.  People are wondering if the Blazers are cursed.  I wonder if we’re not all overreacting.  For example, Roy had a heel problem last season that kept him down for over a month, yet he still was [...]

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I heard about the collision on Interstate while listening to the Rick Emerson Show today. Rick immediately recognized this would be the incident the local media would seize upon to finally have some sort of fake tee-vee discussion. And with November sweeps just around the corner, how will they possibly resist? He [...]

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