Dave Knows: Portland

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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Casey at the Blazer blog on Oregonlive.com has the schedule, and points out some interesting things:
The Blazers kick off the season on the road on October 30 against the World Champion San Antonio Spurs. And it’s on TNT! That’s national. In fact, they’ve got 11 nationally televised games (six on TNT, five on ESPN) and [...]

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Greg Oden posted his interview with Miss Gossip to his blog (Miss Gossip posted the interview on her blog a couple weeks ago).
I don’t like the ‘Optimus Prime’ nickname either. Any one got a better one than ‘O-G’ or ‘G-O’?

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Can I be the only one not obsessed with all things Harry Potter? For those of you who got your fill of children’s books when you were children, here are a couple Portland-related books I recommend you read while all your friends enjoy making J. K. Rowling even richer.
(If you *must* read fantasy, at [...]

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NBA referee Tim Donaghy is being investigated by the FBI for betting on NBA basketball games that he officiated. I never liked that guy. Donaghy is the referee with whom Rasheed Wallace had the infamous confrontation on the loading dock after a game at the Rose Garden in 2003.
I always thought Rasheed got a [...]

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Bailey’s Taproom is opening in August, according to the website. It’s in the old Lamthong spot.
I look forward to checking it out, as it’s a block from my office and I like beer and chocolate and cheese.
Oh, and I’ll buy a beer for the first person to tell me what the heck River [...]

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The Portland Chinooks Sunday beat the Santa Barbara Breakers to advance to the International Basketball League title game against the Elkhart Express.
The title game is Saturday the 21st.  I doubt there is any local television broadcast.
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I’ll stick with lumpia myself.
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