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Oregonian Sports The Oregonian/OregonLive
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Oregonian Sports is your home for entertaining and informative analysis and discussion of the Ducks, Beavers, Blazers and other sports stories. Look for episodes each week from The Oregonian/OregonLive’s sports columnist Bill Oram and KOIN-TV sports anchor/reporter Brenna Greene.
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Blazer Focused: Pre-draft workouts continue, and how many titles could Blazers have won with a healthy Bill Walton?
The Blazer Focused podcast, featuring Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/OregonLive and Craig Birnbach, reacts to Bill Walton dying at the age of 71 on Monday, and discusses his legacy as a player and broadcaster. Craig has stories. Also, the Blazers continue their pre-draft workouts.
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Oregonian Sports: Remembering Bill Walton, plus a look toward college baseball regionals
Bill Walton’s death this week at 71 leaves an immense hole in Portland’s sports landscape and well beyond. The centerpiece of the Trail Blazers’ 1977 championship team, Walton was a celebrated broadcaster, but perhaps was best known for being Bill Walton, one of the greatest winners, and greatest characters, in American sports.
Columnist Bill Oram and co-host Brenna Greene of KOIN pay tribute to the man who brought Portland its only NBA title while considering why his death has resonated so widely.
Discussed on this week’s episode of the Oregonian Sports podcast:
• How Walton connected with a younger generation that never saw him play at the peak of his career.
• Some of the best stories that have been told this week about Walton.
• How should the Trail Blazers honor Walton in the upcoming season and beyond?
• Also, Oregon State hosts a baseball regional this weekend. Could it be the last one for a long time?
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Oregonian Sports: Beavers and Ducks baseball bow out in Scottsdale, a WNBA arms race and more
Last week, Oregon State was three outs from winning the final Pac-12 baseball championship and entering the conference tournament as the No. 1 seed. Instead, they dropped their final regular season game, earned the No. 2 seed, and after their bats went cold against Stanford, got bounced from the tournament in pool play.
But like with all things at Oregon State, Beaver baseball faces bigger questions.
The Beavs will likely still host a regional next week and have a shot to return to Omaha, but what about next year and years to come? On this week’s episode of the Oregonian Sports Podcast, columnist Bill Oram and Brenna Greene of KOIN discuss the recent story from The Oregonian/OregonLive that paints a rosy picture for the future of the program in the face of realignment.
Other topics discussed:
• A call for compassion and decency in conversations about trans athletes in sports
• Brenna is back from vacation. Did she commit a Portland faux pas before even leaving PDX?
• There is an arms race among billionaires when it comes to the pursuit of a WNBA expansion team
• Bill (maybe) wants to bring back the name of a defunct Portland sports team for the WNBA when it comes
• What are the Thorns waiting for when it comes to removing the interim tag from Rob Gale?
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Soccer Made in Portland: Thorns add investors, face pivotal matchup with Orlando
The Portland Thorns are growing their investor group, which now includes the billionaire CEO of Columbia Sportswear. What does that mean for the club’s future, the development of a training facility, and perhaps a WNBA team in Portland?
This week, Chris and Ryan discuss those major investor additions, preview a massive match in Thorns vs. Pride, and examine the Timbers trying to get out of their funk.
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Soccer Made in Portland: Timbers make a wild comeback, Thorns keep the winning streak rolling
Down 2-0 at half on Wednesday night against San Jose, the Portland Timbers appeared to be dead in the water. But with a renewed vigor and some questionable calls, they came all the way back to win, 4-2, and break a nine-match winless streak.
On this week’s episode of Soccer Made in Portland, co-hosts Ryan Clarke and Chris Rifer look at the good, the bad, and the downright ugly from Portland’s victory. Plus, reflecting on a fifth consecutive win for the Thorns as interim coach Rob Gale continues to inspire.
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Oregonian Sports: Talking Blazers, Winterhawks and Soccer City, USA with Tyson Alger
Tyson Alger is a familiar name and face for readers of The Oregonian. With Brenna Greene on vacation this week, Tyson, owner-operator of The I-5 Corridor, dropped by to discuss a variety of topics pertaining to the local sports scene, including his coverage of the Winterhawks this spring as well as the Timbers and Thorns — two teams seemingly moving in different directions.
Discussed on this episode of the Oregonian Sports podcast:
• Why the Blazers’ lottery misfortune does not throw their rebuild off course
• What it’s been like for a lifelong hockey fan and player to learn to cover the sport
• The key to a reporter asking a good press conference question
• Things Tyson has learned covering the Timbers and Thorns this spring
• Ways the Thorns’ Rob Gale is like Kansas’ own Dorothy Gale
• Big Ten teams Oregon could develop new rivalries with
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Customer Reviews
Glad they moved away from Fentress
Now that it’s Bill and Brenna together every week it’s become much more enjoyable to listen to. Getting rid of Aaron Fentress was addition by subtraction
Better than Blazer Focused but….
Why did we give Aaron another Pod to complain, whine and act uniformed on? The bottom line is that Aaron Fentress doesn’t have a lot of insight or information to share that we can’t find on a google search. Bill Orem is truly a treasure, offers great insight, knowledge of the game, and insider info. Aaron meanwhile just name drops and compares everybody to Michael Jordan, Wilt, Lebron, KD, Steph and Magic, because those seem to be the only basketball players he knows.
So Bill gives this Pod the 3 stars.
Then the other end (0 stars) is when Aaron starts going on a rant about how people don’t like the WNBA because not as many of the players regularly dunk and I got to watch my wife’s face as she cringed through listening to that. Really innovative analysis Aaron.
Just ditch Aaron, go all Bill and Brenna. And let Aaron just do Blazer Focused where he actively complains about how much work he puts into covering the team, seems to have no interest in the Blazers besides getting the paycheck and regularly gets owned by Craig for not knowing any players outside of the Blazers roster and the top 2-3 players on every team.
Maybe we should reconsider Aaron fentress
I love listening to a good podcast that makes me learn more about the game I love. Unfortunately Aaron fentress does not creat more learning, he sticks to hair raising takes who’s only audience is outside of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.
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