The Vig

I grabbed a grip of magnet schedules at the Winter Hawks game Saturday night.  I like to pass them around the office and get people a little fired up to go see a game.  It’s the funniest damned thing in this town.  Anytime I mention the Hawks to someone I know, they tell me a [...]

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Rumors out if the Hawk camp this afternoon suggest the front office was let go. If true, it’s a dark day in Hawk history. This does not bode well for the future of the franchise, either in Portland or elsewhere. It’s time for the league to step in and take over.
Update: Well, it’s true. [...]

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A day late, but here goes:
Oregon State: I had to listen to the game on the radio. I about yelled myself hoarse between screaming at Mike Parker and screaming at my buddy Doug. The offense did just enough to let the defense win it. So ugly to do it that way. [...]

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It was a big day for me yesterday.  By the time I got home, I just wanted to climb into bed and contemplate what I’d done.  Not in a bad way or in a “what in the heck have I done?” way, but in more of a “wow, it’s finally here” way.  Needless to say, [...]

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Last week Hawks owner Jim Goldsmith went after the city of Portland with gun a-blazin’. Seems stuff wasn’t getting done with the scoreboards and he’d had about enough. He went so far as to post this YouTube of Commissioners Sten and Leonard promising to help the Hawks with building upgrades. He was [...]

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A quick note of thanks to Justin Morton and Andy Kemper for linking to me this week.  They were both tremendous supporters of mine while I was at OregonLive and I’m proud to count them among my friends.
The hit meter has been going off the charts today, and it’s made me quite giddy.  I hope [...]

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Thanks to my Hawks blog readers for finding their way over here.  I hope you take the time to subscribe to the RSS feed or at least bookmark me since I’ll be doing a lot of the same stuff here that I did for O-Live.  OregonLive gave me a tremendous platform for two seasons and [...]

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