The Vig

O-Live editor Ben Sherman must enjoy this sort of scintillating blogging.  You know, John, CraigsList gives your guy 10-times the exposure and allows you to use your blog for other worthwhile ventures.  Like hooking up a couple of brothers with courtside seats.

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Was it only two seasons ago that Joel Przybilla re-signed with the Blazers?  Wow, time does fly.  Watching the media’s reaction to the arrival of Rudy Fernandez reminds me a lot of their reaction to the Przybilla signing in 2006.  You’ll recall the Blazers put on a big show down on the waterfront which culminated [...]

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I honestly didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to this week’s visit to Portland by Major League Soccer Commissioner Dan Garber. I figured he was blowing into town to drum up some support for bringing his league to our fair city and that would pretty much be that. What we got instead [...]

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The Greg Oden injury put Portland front and center on the sports map last week. Outlets from ESPN, to Sports Illustrated, to AOL, to The Big Lead were chock full of commentary on the injury and what it means to the Blazer franchise. Knees and micro-fracture surgery both give fans the heebie jeebies [...]

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John  Canzano, lifting a line from a John Carpenter movie, has a little note in his blog this morning about the progress of one Channing Frye.  You may remember Frye as the “who ‘dat?” portion of the deal that sent Z-Bo to the Knicks for Steve Francis’ salary.  Rest assured, Kevin Pritchard knew who he was [...]

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