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Winter Hawks: I’m glad I’m not Andy. Driving over a mountain pass four times in a week does not sound like a lot of fun.  Dylan B. has a picture of the pass up here. Thoughts go out to the Purdue hockey team who lost a player in a bus accident this weekend. And it goes without saying that this month marks 21 years since the bus accident in Swift Current. Sorry to be all macabre. The Hawks are having a tough weekend on the ice with four games in five days up in BC. I wonder how much we were deluding ourselves about improvement in the days before the trades. There seems to be some hope and tenacity now that wasn’t there a month ago. Yeah, they’re still making dumb mistakes on the back end, but one almost believes now the offense may be able to make up for it. I realize 5 goals in 3 games is nothing extraordinary, especially when they gave up 6 in Vancouver alone, but still. There’s some life there.

Trail Blazers: Six months ago, one would have thought a Blazer ticket would be impossible to come by this season. Now? Well, give it a few more weeks. Maybe after the first of the year it’ll be like last season when you could pick up tickets for pennies on the dollar. Unfortunately my Rose Quarter connection has left town, so I have to find a new one. Folks are already looking toward the lottery this season. Some have suggested Kevin Love might be a good addition. Please, Dear God….NO. Steve Duin will tell you why.

Manchester City: The more they win, the more they show up on TV Saturday mornings. This week, they scored the fastest goal in the Premiership this season. Here’s what it looked like on YouTube. The only problem is, they didn’t score the rest of the day. The draw dropped them out of the top-four, which is where they belong anyway. I’ve no idea what the January transfer window will bring. They say “we” need a scorer. I’ve no idea what one looks like or where to find him.

Oregon State: The Emerald Bowl? I’d rather go to El Paso and play South Florida. That looks like a lot more fun. Whatever. It’s nice to get a win over the Ducks, even though the folks in Eugene could have cared less about this year’s Civil War.

The BCS: I know it’s a mess and frankly unless the Beavers or one of the South Carolina schools is involved, I could care less. Yes, a playoff would be nice, but it’s not going to happen. So quityerbitchin. The only real headscratcher for me is how Kansas got in and Mizzou got shut-out. Was I the only one to Tivo this game?

Arizona Cardinals: I meant to do a Cardinals post all week. I was going to write it Saturday, but thought it best to wait until after the Cleveland game. Like the rest of the country, I gave my guys no hope this week. So what did they do? They went out and beat Cleveland, a team on the rise. The win is not without its controversy (please direst your browser here and here) but whatever. A win is a win. And it would be fine had they just won last week. That would have set-up a tremendous match in Seattle next weekend. Instead, they not only have to win in Seattle, but they also need the Panthers, Ravens, or Falcons to beat the Hawks down the stretch while also holding form themselves at New Orleans (yeah right) and at home against Atlanta and St Louis. Not likely at all. So that’s that. The Cards will gasp ad wheeze all the way through the end of the season only to come up short. 8-8 is a best case scenario. 7-9 is more likely. All because Kurt Warner doesn’t know his own end zone from a hole in the ground. But see the post I’m working on isn’t actually going to be about any of this. No no…. As bad as things look between now and week 17, just wait. It gets loads worse.

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 and when its your franchise savior who’s knee just had the micro-fracture performed…well, pardon us if we go a little overboard.

Casey Holdahl had an excellent rundown of local and national reaction on Friday. Much ink was spilled and bandwidth consumed. One link Holdahl left out was Canzano. JC, as is his habit, zigged when the rest of the nation zagged. Rather than give us any insight into what happened or thoughts about where we go from here, Canzano gave us The Birdman. I don’t get it. JC gets 750 words three-times-a-week to talk sports. Instead, more often than not, he’s giving us “life lessons”.

Like the time earlier this summer when he was dispatched to the All-Star Game in San Francisco and came back with the story of Anne Marie Feigner. There were so many other things to talk about down there. Ichiro. Bonds. Heck. Even a column about how the Giants stabbed the A’s in the back and forced them into the South Bay would have been an interesting story. At least that would have justified the expense of sending him down.

There are countless other examples of Canzano writing about down on their luck sports fans, imploring us to write checks and send donations. I’m getting really tired of it. The Oregonian is a big paper, filled with reporters and columnists who’s job it is to give me “perspective.” Now they’re letting their #1 sports columnist become Margie Boulé-lite.

Add to that the fact Canzano’s now moonlighting as talk show host for the Paul Allen owned KXL. I’ve commented on the strained ethics of the deal elsewhere. No one has come up with a satisfactory explanation as to why it’s alright to take a paycheck from an organization you’re being paid by someone else to cover, but whatever. JC says he has complete editorial control, so I guess I’ll believe him. I do wonder though about the timing of the deep tongue kiss he gave the Blazers just before his radio show started. Will he continue to play footsie with the Blazers in print while chiding them on the radio? How long Fred and Sandy will put up with that?

I left a comment on his blog wondering whether his status as a Vulcan employee was clouding the content of his column (djsaladplate, an homage to another local sports guy’s recent weight loss, will now be retired in favor of the much simpler snethen). You’ll have to trust me on that. Seems JC edited that part out, then called me his friend. The comment, as I recall, was something to the effect of “nothing to see here, so says the Blazer employee/Oregonian columnist.” Pretty tame, if you ask me. I’ve left other comments for him, all as djsaladplate, suggesting a local Murrow Award winning journalist might be better suited to cover his subject matter and could we please get back to talking sports. Those have never made the cut.

Having blogged for nearly 4 years now, I can say I’ve whacked my share of comments. I’ve even banned a guy who can’t get it through his head that this isn’t Romper Room. I’ve yet to edit any comment that’s taken a direct shot at me though. You’re either in or you’re out (mostly in, unless your curse). Deleting a comment is one thing, but editing a comment to make yourself look better is not cool. Welcome to Canzano’s world.

My time as a sports fan is limited. I’m not alone in making that observation. I’m getting tired of turning on my radio or opening my paper hoping I’ll find commentary on my favorite team only to be greeted with Debbie Downer or worse. If Canzano wants to be Steve Duin, then by all means go be Steve Duin. There are hundreds of young hungry journalists out there who would kill to write a regular sports column. Maybe it’s time to give one of them a shot and let Canzano go chase his dream.

Update:  You can check out some contrary views here and here.

The local right wing media has been all up in arms about a comment made by Oregonian reporter Steve Mayes.  Victoria Taft goes off here.  Mayes has since whipped out a piece of Lars’ letterhead and clarified his remarks.  It was an unfortunate choice of words on his part and one I believe he regrets.  Of course that won’t stop Lars, Victoria, and the national mouth breathers from going on about the case and the quote.  These folks are gleefully going after the illegal immigrants but in their silence give a pass to a guy Steve Duin mentioned in his August 9th column who bragged about also having sex with Dani Countryman that weekend.  Why the double standard?  I think we know the answer.

There’s a case happening down in Southern Oregon right now that, while nowhere near as horrifying as rape and murder, is still relevent to the question of consent as it relates to minors.  A father recently converted to Judaism and wishes to circumcise his son in accordance with his beliefs.  The problem is the boy’s mother says the boy doesn’t want to undergo the procedure and is too scared to tell his dad.  Did I mention the boy is 12?  Should a 12-year-old boy be able to stand up to his parents and say no to a purely elective procedure even if it violates his parent’s new religious beliefs?  We seem to believe females in Africa should be able to say no to a similar procedure.  Can’t an American boy do the same?  Or is a minor child unable to consent to or decline anything on their own?  What about a 12-year-old child member of Oregon City’s Followers of Christ Church, badly in need of medical attention, who turns to a teacher for help?  Should the teacher help the kid get medical attention despite the Followers’ strict teachings against medical treatment?  Or should they simply return the child to his or her parents without lifting a finger?

We know where they stand on rape.  Perhaps Lars and Victoria could draw up a chart and let us know where some other lines are.