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Archives for July 2008

Rosebuds for 7/02/08

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Rose BudsThe Water Bureau outs the skinny dippers

What San Francisco learned at the Towards Carfree Conference in Portland

What is it with (non-carfree) Portlanders and bumper stickers?

My favorite building downtown is finally going to be renovated . . . but will the checkerboard remain?

Conference call with newest official Blazer Rudy Fernandez

And a fresh update from GO

Miss the Jax? Keep up with the off season wheeling and dealing

Morelia’s bringing a good team, and will draw a good crowd, to face the Timbers Thursday

Portland Tribune header image mystery

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I was perusing the local rags this morning when I was struck by something odd at PortlandTribune.com: The homepage header contains a photo of Charles Barkley in his old Phoenix Suns uniform.

This is the main homepage and news header, not the sports section header. Clicking on his image does nothing. (In fact the header is not linked to anything; it should at least take you back to the homepage). A quick glance at news headlines reveals no clues as to why he would be there. (I thought maybe Phil had written something curmudgeonly about Barkley. Nope.)

Nothing obvious turned up in the sports section either. At least not in the headlines.

I searched the site for “Charles”. Barkley’s name doesn’t appear in any headlines on the site.

Ah, but what’s this? Kerry Egger’s column from Friday is titled Never too old to chase dream. Bingo! Egger dreamed about playing pickup basketball on a team with Charles Barkley, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Dwight Jaynes (?!?!?). Kerry Eggers really misses playing pickup basketball. I guess. This column is another mystery altogether. But at least we’ve probably discovered this particular connection between The Portland Tribune and the image of Charles Barkley.

Kevin Allman and Matt Davis might be onto something . . . or maybe the mysterious Charles Barkley image was placed there purposely to drag obsessives like me through the site to drum up more page views. It’s a mystery.