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Things I’m still getting used to
In Portland, "OSU" means Beavers instead of Buckeyes, and "the Coogs" are still red but they're way too white.
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Football trivia question
Which two teams have won an NFL championship despite losing the Super Bowl?
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I smell lawsuit…
So I'm watching the Fort Worth Bowl, which this year matches my former employer, the University of Houston (Go Coogs!), against the University of Kansas. ESPN has sent their D team to provide commentary — before tonight, I had never heard of either person in the broadcast booth. Midway
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I love Portland, Part 3
Seen on SE Belmont Street: A truck painted in green and gold, covered with Oregon Ducks logos. What kind of truck? A tow truck. Clever Beavers fans. Clever, clever Beavers fans.
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Football is dead to me
UCLA 47, California 40 Penn State 17, Ohio State 10 Utah State 24, San Jose State 17 (!!!) Bleah…
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Astros-Braves
When you have a playoff series between a team that has made the playoffs 14 years in a row, but won the World Series only once, and a team that has made the playoffs five times in the last decade but advanced past the first round only once…the question
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An amazing record
The Cardinals professional football franchise has been owned by the Bidwill family for 72 years. In that time, the Cardinals have won one championship (1947).
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Salt Lake 4, Beavers 2
Went to my first Portland Beavers game tonight, at PGE Park. What a great place to spend a beautiful summer evening! I'll have to fit a few more games in before the season ends. The game got off to a fast start, with Salt Lake scoring three runs
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Cardinals 2, Astros 0
Two thoughts about tonight's game at Minute Maid Park: The score was 1-0 after eight innings. In 25 years of watching baseball, I have never seen a 1-0 game that was so much of an ass-kicking. The bottom of the fifth inning was the worst half-inning of baseball
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Astros 9, Giants 0
So my hometown San Francisco Giants just finished a four-game series here at Minute Maid Field. On Thursday, they won. On Friday, they won. On Saturday, they lost, but at least it was to Roger Clemens. On Sunday, they suffered an old-fashioned Texas horse-whipping. Guess which game I made it
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MLB question
Maybe I just haven't been following baseball much lately, and there is an obvious answer to this question, but: Why not move the Houston Astros from the NL Central to the AL West? Three advantages: One, it would even up all of the divisions at five teams; two,
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Sunday afternoon at the Toyota Center
I was able to fit the Rockets-Lakers game in before the Super Bowl started Sunday. Glad I took the risk: It was a nail-biter, and when will I be able to get Lakers tickets again? I went with Camille and Austin Livingston—Camille is a co-worker and a major Rockets