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Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments):
Things to do in Portland on New Year’s Day | Dave Knows: Portland
Dave says “After an acceptable sleeping-in period, besides watching bowl games, what else is there to do on New Year’s Day?
I know I’m not the only one who [...]

The Portland Trail Blazers kick off their season tonight —in LA against the Lakers & Kobe, no less!
I’m still very much in the rookie fangirl category (less than 2 years as a Blazer fan), but I already have the TiVo set to record tonight’s game (and have called dibs on the television all [...]

…and makes it better.
Who? Greg Oden, that’s who. But not for his basketball playing. Not because he’s an ardent Obama supporter, or a great role model for kids. And most definitely, positively NOT for his singing, as this clip clearly attests:

But Oden’s awesomely horrific rendition of a N’Sync tune [...]

Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments):

Pull your pants back up, Blazer fans | On the Vig - Chris Snethen gives us four reasons why that 'guaranteed championship' isn't quite in the bag yet…
Should the baby elephant’s name be ‘Amul’ or ‘Duc’? | The Portland Tribune - [...]

It’s the sound of hundreds of thousands of basketball fans with their sky-high hopes for the upcoming Blazers season slowly deflating down to earth.
The moaning and groaning and gnashing of teeth? The inventive swear words? Yeah, same reason.
Why? This headline says it all:
Blazers’ Brandon Roy will have knee surgery
(I have [...]

(Update: corrected to point to right Mercury link…)
I haven’t been reading the newspaper. Don’t much listen to the radio any more when I’m in the car. And my unread RSS feeds have mushroomed out of control.
However, I unexpectedly ended up spending lots of time in my car today, and didn’t [...]