Arena Football Returns to Portland
Portland may not have the NFL, but we’ll be getting football nonetheless in 2014. Arena Football League Commissioner Jerry B. Kurz announced at a press conference yesterday that an ownership group led by Portland businessman Terry W. Emmert, CEO of Clackamas-based Emmert International, an engineered transport and structural relocation company specializing in ultra-heavy duty transit, […]
Vikings Face Grizzlies in Hostile Montanna
Portland State goes on the road this Saturday to take on 10th-ranked University of Montana in a Root Sports TV game. The Vikings and Griz, both 0-1 in Big Sky Conference play, already face a key game to stay in the conference title race. Kickoff is 12:35 p.m. on Saturday. In addition to being televised […]
Portland May Finally Get NHL Hockey
Another NHL season began last night and Portland is not involved. When the puck dropped in Chicago, Portland and the greater US Pacific Northwest is still be a minor-league hockey entity. It was so very close to being so very different. According to various reports published in The Oregonian, Comcast SportsNet Northwest, and NBC Sports’ […]
Fantasy Scrambler: Looking to Playoffs
Now that we are four weeks into the 2013 NFL season, it’s time to start looking ahead to the fantasy playoffs. All of the preseason hype has played itself out, for the most part, and we are starting to get a clearer if not truer picture of what teams and players are really gonna do […]