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Basketball Refugees! We all know that the current reality in the professional basketball landscape is disappointing and is now a vacuum of the sport that we love. We propose a NEW REALITY, a parallel universe where basketball starts tonight. It’s the NRBA (New Reality Basketball Association). The season will be played. We will provide results, […]

This is a partial archive of the writings from The Portland Sportsman, a sports enthusiast website. Members included Mike Merrill, Dan Woytek, Devin Chapman, Josh B., Erin Gates, Starr Ahrens, Scott W., Stephanie Chase, Thomas King, and others.

A sport is an organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful activity requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play, in which a winner and loser can be defined by objective means. Generally speaking, a sport is a game based in physical athleticism. (Via Wikipedia)

Inning 1- Introduction Now that you are acquainted with the intended purpose of this series of baseball stories, allow me to send a shot across your proverbial bow. It’s about to get basebally up in this piece. The reason is two-fold. Firstly, this baseball trip was a solo affair, a Friday trip to Eugene to […]

The NFL and the NFL Players’ Association are currently in negotiations to install a new collective bargaining agreement before the 2011 season — negotiations that have resulted in the decertification of the union and the start of a lockout. (Overview of lockout on ESPN.) So what happens if there is no NFL? What sport will […]

I just started reading Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals on the recommendation of a friend and while I’m only 28 pages in I think it might be the best book I’ll read this year. It’s a lot like a textbook, which is strange for me as I haven’t owned a textbook since 1995, but […]

I was recently promoted to Vice President at work, and while the added responsibilities have kept me busy, I have also seen a number of perks including access to the executive washroom and a new corner office on the 14th floor. But the strangest byproduct of my new position is that I am now a […]

Is it really that time again? Summer has just flown by and with the last days of August comes the pain & pleasure explosion known as the Hood to Coast Relay. 197 miles. 1000 teams. 12 runners in two vans. And with us, enough coffee (both pressed and cold-brewed) to keep us up for 36 […]

The Fresh Pot is one of the oldest Stumptown accounts in the city. We’ve been serving Stumpy’s coffee since the cafe on Division handled the bulk of the roasting. Over the years we’ve witnessed plenty of changes and growth within the ranks of our fair roaster but one of the most impressive moves has been […]

This weekend launched the second season of Portland Sportsman when I went to a Portland Beavers game. One might remember last year the Portland Sportsman team talked about baseball, soccer, cycling, and pinball. As the days grew colder, so did our pagerank… Initially I was a little bummed about the decline in posts as I […]