My first basketball hoop was on the gravel lot behind my childhood home, nailed fixed to an old garage — the old wooden kind built in the 70′s that was more barn than anything else. I remember shooting a lot from straighter angles. I learned early on that if I missed from the corners, the … Continue reading »

So I bought these tickets a while back because I thought for my dad’s birthday on the 22nd I would skip getting him another book about foreign wars and Bob Dylan CDs and get him something we could do together. Tickets at the Rose Garden aren’t exactly flying out of the offices of the Trail … Continue reading »

I openly wept at my computer Tuesday afternoon. Not enough so that my co-workers would hear me, but I wept all the same. I couldn’t let it get the best of me, because I had job to do. Not an ordinary job, either. I had to write the story about the tragedy for a major … Continue reading »

If. It’s a dangerous word, one used in situations of uncertainty. Of doubt. It’s a word that Blazer fans know all too well. A dangerous conversation was had between Mike Acker of Rip City Project, myself, and Danny Nowell of PRS about the makeup of the current Blazers roster. The question was: Should Portland make … Continue reading »