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Blogs - Cipole's Blog Written by Cipole Wednesday, 14 September 2011 21:52 Hits: 526 Never much liked baseball. Was always a track and field junkie. However on a long drive home tonight, I listened to the Dodger game if only to cling to the dulcet tones of Vin Scully for maybe the last time I'll ever have the chance to hear him. While listening as the Dodgers go up 2-0, I hear Harry Shearer impersonate Scully doing the Springfield Isoptopes game on The Simpsons and silently chuckle. Then again, when it is all said an done, has there ever been a sports announcer in any field as good as Vin? In your twiliight years, when your addled mind makes you struggle to remember the name of your first pet as a child, or even your first wife's name, will you seriously have a problem bringing to recall the certain tonality and manner of Vin Scully as he made perfect pictures in your head brushstroking yet another of his masterpieces? NABI "Its an All Northwest Final"
Blogs - Cipole's Blog Written by Cipole Saturday, 06 August 2011 22:25 Hits: 579 Yakama and Hoopa Teams Rise to the Top in Native American Final For the second straight year, the Hoopa Wolfpack made it all the way into the Native American Basketball Invitational final, held at the Phoenix USAir Center. Coached by Wesley Hutt, who is the Gang Prevention Coordinator for the Native American Youth and Family Center in Northeast Portland, he's familiar with the routine after making it to the championship last year. As a Hoopa Tribe Member, he's collected players from the Hoopa (off the slopes of Mt Shasta); Warm Springs and Klamath tribes and this year, and when funds were short, loaded up the van to get them down to the sweltering heat of Arizona to compete against the best players of Native descent from all across the country. A total of 92 boys and girls teams competed. Blazers Go "Buhh Bye"
Blogs - Cipole's Blog Written by Don Francis Thursday, 28 April 2011 22:35 Hits: 777 (true....not Oregon High School kids but we root for them in much the same way. Well, kinda....) If "Rise With Us" was this years Blazer slogan, I can't wait to see next years. I vote for "Chalupa's and Unicorns" since both are fictional entities around the Rose Garden. After resisting the myriad of friends goading me to watch "American Idol" I finally get hooked this season rooting for one of the singers and on this one night, one goes down in a shocker (Casey) and the other goes down much like a friend fighting a terminal disease. You're almost relieved they're out of their misery and you're happy to move on. Uh....yes, that would be Portlands NBA franchise. A Dallas team once perceived as the softest and least physical of all playoff teams bullied the Blazer Billy Elliotts and it wasn't pretty to watch. If Rick Mahorn is still able to get up and down a court, can we sign him? What the Blazers sorely need is a "Mongo." Cipole Goes Girls Hoop Ballistic
Blogs - Cipole's Blog Written by Don Francis Wednesday, 06 April 2011 14:39 Hits: 1350 Officials need to get on the same page! The Coaching Carousel heats up and its time to just get into Girls Hoop Junkie Blabbermode. Rumors, observations and more clueless hyperbole as the State Tournaments fade into the sunset........"Folks...Do You Suffer From Irritable Ball Syndrome?"
Blogs - Cipole's Blog Written by Cipole Thursday, 02 December 2010 13:11 Hits: 1121 With a monumental Civil War on the line; opening tip for high school hoops arriving; the Blazers new add campaign "Dive With Us" and the always stressful Holiday Season roaring up at "Warp Factor Seven Scotty," is it any wonder Oregonians look like a barnyard full of agitated turkeys? Doctors and sports psychologists have long had a terminology for this. Its called "Irritable Ball Syndrome" and its swept our state like the Black Plague hit Europe a few hundred years ago. The closing scene in "Something About Mary" has Ted walking from Mary's place after simply handing off the winsome Mary to Jen Sterger's Boytoy. As Ted walks down the street, the soulful and pitiful heart wrenching sobs have always haunted me. I still remember walking out of Reser Stadium in 2008 on a sea of crushed Rose petals and hearing the lamentations of 40,000 Beaver fans uttering those same anguished sobs. A clearcut case of IBS in full bloom.
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