Is An Ex-Portland Beaver Part of a New Trend in Sports?

By HANK STERN

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Here's a story with a Portland Beavers connection that doesn't have anything to do with team owner Merritt Paulson, Lents and the Portland City Council.

Long-ago Beaver ballplayer Khalil Greene may be part of an unusual new trend in sports — pro athletes going on the disabled list because of "social anxiety disorder," Deadspin posits in a piece picking up on this St. Louis Post-Dispatch story about the ex-Beavers shortstop.

And now back to keeping up with the other Beavers stories.

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