Yes, this isn’t even a contest outside of Portland. Larue Martin, Sam Bowie, Greg Oden. Ho-oooooly shit. The greatest player in Blazers history (spoiler: Bill Walton) gave the team 2 all-time great seasons before being destroyed by injuries. Jesus Christ, do you people start experiencing peptic ulcers the moment the…

I watch soccer and am transfixed by the grace, power, and supernatural skill of the top players. Then they open their mouth and I am flabbergasted by their idiocy. I suppose its inevitable when a 13 year old is plucked out of school to become a professional athlete and ends up in the pantheon of super-greats without…

I’m a long-time Raider fan, even when they abandoned the East Bay for L.A. The devolution of the team’s brain trust from “brilliant, sleazy Al Davis” to “senile, sleazy Al Davis” to “sad, village-idiot Mark Davis” has been heart-breaking to watch. I’m fairly certain that Adelson can convince Davis to move the team by…

I don’t follow hockey, don’t particularly like Vegas, but I’ve got to say that I loved owner Bill Foley as Jerry on Parks & Rec.

I generally don’t like smear campaigns as lurid as this against public figures, even when those figures are ones I dislike or oppose. But Trump has been such a purveyor of outright defamatory bullshit that I would welcome if HRC and her proxies would start employing his standard “People are saying ____. I mean, I’m…

Fisher’s argument has always been that non-whites are an inherently suspect class. If the UT “holistic” admissions policy did not explicitly state that race was one component considered, she would have still challenged the admission of any student of color ahead of her as being “reverse discrimination”. Fisher…

Rodman was such a great defender and rebounder that he deserves his HOF spot. But he was offensively somewhat less than a zero and his propensity for on-the-court self-destruction mitigates his overall value. I don’t think Love or Allen are anywhere near Rodman’s value, but I’d argue that Bosh is close (less skilled…

I think the GOAT conversation remains the same as it has been for the past 10 years: (1) Jordan, (2) Russell, and (3) Lebron. The GOAT not only has to be the best player but the player that made his team the best. I don’t think the quantity of championships measures that (it was obviously easier to win it all during…

More to the point, Jordan’s team wasn’t stacked anymore than Lebron’s have been. Jordan had Pippen (who was a great complementary player to a legend, a la Worthy or McHale, but not a legend himself) and a great supporting cast that knew their roles. Lebron had had in Wade and Irving players with better talent than…

Patrick, the one criticism I have for your plan is that it presumes a basic level of fitness. However, for most sedentary people and even those who have a basic cardio regimen (jog/walk a few times a week or take an aerobics class at the gym), the foundational strength required to take advantage of the exercises above…

Do you remember that Bo Jackson commercial that showed him doing different sports that ended with him trying to play guitar and Bo Diddley saying , “Bo; you don’ know diddley!”

I was at the Chile slaughter of Mexico last night. It was like watching one of those kids tournament games where a low-level team overreaches and ends up playing in a bracket with an elite-level team. Chile

Thus assuring the dominance of international track and field by Russia for the next decade after all other Olympic-level athletes contract Zika and various other diseases during the Olympics.

I’m not big on athletes bitching in public, and even less on athlete’s family members doing it. But if Stephen A. Smith were to announce that the only reasonable thing to do is vote for Hilary Clinton, I’d vote for Trump. Of all the people in the world, Stephen A. is absolutely the last person to demand someone else…

“total collapse in public safety, health, education, transport and environmental management.”

I saw Jordan play in person three times: once in college and twice against the Warriors in Oakland. Jordan seemed to always play poorly in Oakland (I think that’s where he broke his foot at the beginning of his second season). But playing “poorly” for Jordan meant something different than it did for almost any other…

One of you kids with your fancy tweeter, viner skills needs to do this with the Bieber playing basketball videos.

Absolutely. I hate HRC, but I’m voting for her because the other choice is the Fredbird of politics.

Aah. Me no read good.

Aah. Me no read good.

I really think there cannot be a less appealing phrase than “discontinued meat bars”.

I really think there cannot be a less appealing phrase than “discontinued meat bars”.