by Ty Davison | May 3, 2004 | Sports
The outdoor co-ed rec soccer league started up this evening with a 4-2 victory that came after the sunlight had all but faded entirely. I had a sloppy, bull-in-the-china-shop sort of goal and a fairly good assist. Bret, who joined us at my behest since we were short...
by Ty Davison | Apr 10, 2004 | Sports
I watched the last five minutes of the Nuggets-Blazers game this evening plus a little bit of overtime, and a feeling of peacefulness and clarity settled upon me: Now I remember why I hate the NBA. The frickin’ refs are terrible. When Portland was good (and I...
by Ty Davison | Apr 10, 2004 | Sports
The Blazers have a long history of really awful public relations campaigns. My favorite was the year they shot a series with Blazers bursting into people’s houses to dunk from chandelliers and so forth. Probably would’ve gone over better if the Blazer...
by Ty Davison | Feb 14, 2004 | Sports
At first glance, the Trail Blazers trade of tempermental forward Rasheed Wallace seems like a pretty good deal for all concerned. The Atlanta Hawks clear major salary cap space at the end of the season when Wallace’s $17 million contract expires, so they get to...
by Ty Davison | Nov 18, 2003 | Sports
Last time I wrote about the Steelers I said they had four big problems: (1) A porous offensive line, (2) a running back (Bettis) who was inconstantly used, and (3) a secondary that couldn’t cover my grandmother—either of them, and one of them’s dead—and...
