While we wait for tonight's Trail Blazers game and the start of March Madness (as momentary distractions from the increasingly alarming news from Japan), this morning's Wall Street Journal offers this piece that ties the Blazers to the latest trend in college basketball.

Namely, the three-goggles fad pioneered by Blazers Rudy Fernandez and Patty Mills. Given the Blazers' most recent run of lousy outside shooting, it would be nice to see the goggles make more than one appearance against Dallas tonight in the Rose Garden.