I’ve stood by the Portland Trailblazers a lot in the last few years. OK, so maybe at times I was delivering an elbow to their collective gut during particularly embarrassing events, but I think, all things considered, I’ve been a good fan. It’s nice to see that the rest of the league is starting to...

I am in pain. A great sorrow has overtaken me. I feel that things will not get better. I feel mired in an inescapable and destructive cycle. I am a Portland Trailblazers fan. This column is my lament; it is a cry for cessation of the cruelty that the sport of basketball shows me. My...

What we learned from the first games of the first round. The NBA Playoffs began this past weekend and, quite frankly, none of it surprised me much. However, I think that we learned a bit about each series from the first games, and analysis of the openers is crucial to figuring out where we are...

To the Editor: Shoddy research strikes again! In Adam Harrington’s Viewpoints article, “Beware: Moral Police are Back,” he cites a Columbia University Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse study that received more attention than it deserved. Indeed, shortly after the study’s results were published a retraction came buried deep in newspapers. While the study initially...