Dave Knows Portland

A Blazer fan reports from Elko, Nevada

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My brother Steve, a Portland native and lifelong Blazer fan, moved to Elko, Nevada a few years ago. But he’s still a Blazer fan. He blogged yesterday about Tuesday night’s preseason game against Sacramento, which he was fortunate to track down on Northern Nevada cable:

But the team we have now is HOT! Greg Oden is playing for the first time after micro-fracture surgery that kept him out last year and just looks like a monster, like a young Shaq. The rest of the team has matured over the last couple years, and Spanish rookie Rudy Fernandez is a baller. I watched the first preseason game last night and he had 5-6 completely SICK passes and alley-oops/dunks. That guy is going to be a star, mark my words.

Read the rest at his branch of the DaveKnows.org empire: Dave Knows: Elko.

Rosebuds for 8.19.08

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Rose BudsOly Sandor ponders how Arvydas Sabonis, cerca 1986, would stack up against Olympians Chris Bosh or Dwight Howard

Portland experienced its first ciclovia back in June. And the ciclovia movement continues to sweep the nation.

Lost Oregon takes a look at the Burnside Burger King, circa 1978

. . . which post borrows a photograph from Cyclotram, which provides us with tips on How to walk the Ross Island Bridge and not die, if you’re lucky.

. . . which leads me to remember that the Ross Island bridge carries, in addition to automobiles and the occasional foolhardy pedestrian, gravity-fed Bull Run water to the West Side, where it fills reservoirs in Washington Park.