Dave Knows: Portland

Former U of P and Jesuit High School star point guard, Erik Spoelstra, is taking over for Pat Riley in Miami.
Via Will Manso’s Sports Blog:
Local 10 News is the first to learn that Pat Riley has stepped down as Head Coach of the Miami Heat. Riley is set to make the official announcement at […]

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If you can believe it, Powell’s is expanding
Burnside Bridge repairs are complete!
POVA is now Travel Portland
Registration is open for the 2008 Towards Carfree Cities Conference, to be held in Portland this summer.
And I’d like to wish a happy birthday to Greg Oden, 20 years old!

*Read the inaugural post for a rosebud explanation.

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The guys who sang the national anthem appeared to be high on something, my guess is coke. And the lead guy is not a very good singer. (The best national anthem so far this year was performed by Jeffrey Phillip Wiedlandt.)
Stephen Jackson really is crazy. Great player though, just not last night. […]

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I’m going to go out on a limb here and bet the Trailblazers (0-7 on the road, 4-0 at home) finish the season with a record of 41-41.

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Heading into the Rose Garden last night I didn’t expect much from the Blazers. They’re my team, but the Mavs are an elite team with some of the best in the league: Nowitzki, Terry, Stackhouse, Howard (Josh; sorry Juwan!). The young Blazers have been looking good at home, but was there any way […]

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I don’t anticipate a playoff run, but I think we’re in for some surprising wins this season, and I expect we’ll discover another star or two in the bunch, besides Brandon Roy. LaMarcus Aldridge is the odds on favorite to be that standout, but Channing Frye, Webster or Outlaw might surprise us. We’ve […]

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UPDATE: Well, we’ve learned the news is worse than hoped, but there’s a chance he’ll recover as well as Stoudemire and Randolph have from microfracture surgery. In any case the Blazers have good young team going into the new season even without Oden. I’ll enjoy watching Aldridge become a star this year, and […]

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Watch and listen to the #1 draft pick as he fights a head cold and prepares for the draft:

(Via Greg’s sparse - he’s a busy guy - but excellent blog.)

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The first day of the Blazer’s Edge Summer Book Club is upon us. A book discussion on The Blazers Edge: A Site by and for Blazer Fans? Makes perfect sense since the book is Red Hot and Rollin’: A Retrospection of the Portland Trail Blazers’ 1976-77 Championship Season (Library | Powell’s), edited by […]

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I don’t personally remember this one. I also have a knack for suppressing traumatic experiences.(There’s lots of other good stuff like that at For Portlanders Only.)

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