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News When Commissioner Randy Leonard and the rest of the City Council declared March 10 as Tibet Awareness Day, Leonard says a delegation from the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco suggested there could be economic consequences for Portland. But Leonard and Mayor Sam Adams refused to yield to Chinese pressure and renounce their city proclamation declaring Tibet is independent. Now, a Beijing ...   More

News Tonight is one of the most exciting nights in all of sports, the kind of night that kids across this great country dream about while shooting baskets in their driveway, the kind of night that breaks hearts, that makes legends, that makes us all believe in Cinderella and miracles. I am, of course, talking about SXSW. That's where your usual Blazer bloggers, Casey Jarman and Michael Mannheimer, ...   More

News Woods is in Poland, ESPN's Mark Stein reports, and playing pretty damn well. Well enough to make it back to the NBA? That's another question, Stein reports, considering Woods' past dogfighting (and, to a lesser extent, his basketball-card-as-identification) transgressions. Here's a chunk of Stein's reportage, which is well-worth reading in its entirety: Asked if he thinks NBA teams are prepared ...   More

News BREAKING BLAZERS NEWS: Brandon Roy has a slight meniscus tear in his right knee and is out for the final two games of the regular season. The team says he'll be day-to-day during the playoffs, but I'm pretty sure he's out for the season. Wow. Well, did you expect anything else? In what is arguably the strangest season in the Portland Trail Blazers' 40 year existence, it only makes sense that their ...   More

News Nothing like a summertime list of the 25 most hated sports teams of all time to while away a few minutes reading. And who should make Sports Illustrated's list at #21 but the 2000-01 Trail Blazers, which SI remembers for "their incessant bickering and boorish behavior." That's a few places lower than the 1976 East German women's swimming team and the 1919 Black Sox, and just ahead of the 1983-84 ...   More

News The Portland Trail Blazers, City Commissioner Nick Fish and Mississippi Studios are among the big names pouring money into the race for a Multnomah County Board of Commissioners seat representing North and Northeast Portland. The latest round of campaign finance disclosures shows candidate Loretta Smith collecting $500 from Fish and $1,000 from the Trail Blazers. As previously reported in ...   More