The Vig

Word out of Toronto is the Phoenix Coyotes, despite having a brand new arena, are in a heap of trouble financially.  It serves them right for building the thing in a cotton field in the middle of freaking nowhere.  When I lived down there, the talk was they were going to build the new arena [...]

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Give it up for the Portland State Vikings!  If you missed it, the game replays on Fox Sports Network (Comcast channel 34) tonight at midnight.
The Viks have a ways to go yet before they can hope for anything beyond a 16-seed this March.  Their real opportunity to make some RPI hay will be this Monday [...]

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Penn State has locked up the Rose Bowl.
On second thought…
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They couldn’t get financing to expand their stadium, one which was completed just this year for just $14.1 million CDN.  So that leaves six cities pursuing two expansion franchises.  I would love to see the MLS here, but only in an existing PGE Park.  If that can’t be done, then they need to look elsewhere.
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After a 1-12 start, the OKC Thunder have fired former Blazer coach P.J. Carlesimo.  Which retread will they bring in now?
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My old college dorm mate Brian Prawitz will be calling plays on the radio for the U of O starting this spring.  When I lived in Seattle in 2001 and 2002, Prawitz was the sports guy for KIRO radio and was a locker room reporter for the Mariners, his favorite team growing up.  Now he’s [...]

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UP’s win over Washington and PSU’s win over UP have vaulted both into the upper reaches of the very early season RPI.
Portland State plays the Huskies in Seattle on December 14.  If they win and UW continues to pile up early-season victories against other opponents, the Vikings could conceivably stay in the top-50 for a [...]

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Kerry Eggers has an excellent article about Kathy Adelman Naro in the Trib this morning,  I’ve known Kathy through my work with girls basketball for over a decade now.  She’s one of the better coaches in the state.  While that’s not saying much, as most of the girls coaching in Oregon is abysmal, she’s a [...]

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I’ve had tonight circled on my calendar for a few weeks now.  Portland State opened their regular season home schedule against the Portland Pilots.  I almost called them cross-town rivals, but that would have been a lie.  Portland State has had men’s basketball for only a couple of years now.  The two schools rarely lock [...]

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This bad.
Just before training camp the organization fired 35 employees, and THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER reported that (team owner and BET founder Robert) Johnson wanted to eliminate regional radio broadcasts of the team’s games as a cost-cutting measure, a stratagem he was reportedly talked out of—in no uncertain terms—by the league office. (Johnson declined SI’s interview [...]

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