Blazers / NBA Multimedia Links

[Treaty_of_Batum]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/bal...urn=nba,108808


Blazer Banter — Timely news, news, news.
Behind the Beat — Put together by one of the best beat writers in sports, Jason Quick.
Mike Barrett — The PDX play-by-play man always has good stuff.
The Inferno — "Inferno" means "hot," to these eyes. Hot!


3. Blazer's Edge — Some of the more thought-provoking posts in the blogosphere have come from tidy, little site over the last few years.

2. Center Court — Access, access, access. Multimedia content, tons of posts, great stuff to dive into, daily. Amazing that it came in second. Casey runs a fabulous site.

1. The Rip City Project — Coup and SJ write so damn much, it’s amazing that they mostly keep to documenting the ups and downs of just one team. A fantastic blog.

[Minstrel]

Good idea to post. Let's make this thread for people to post any good online Blazer resources they come across.

[Masbee]

http://myespn.go.com/nba/truehoop

Henry Abbott is a Blazer fan and includes more than their share of Blazer related blogging in the general NBA blog - one of the best.

http://www.yardbarker.com/users/gregoden

Greg Oden's blog.

[AgentDrazenPetrovic]

http://www.channingfrye.com/blog/

[Denny Crane]

FYI

S2 can do some slick stuff with RSS feeds from those blogs. Check this out:

http://sportstwo.com/NBA/NewJersey/News

[barfo]

FYI

S2 can do some slick stuff with RSS feeds from those blogs. Check this out:

http://sportstwo.com/NBA/NewJersey/News

I say do it, then!

barfo

[Denny Crane]

http://sportstwo.com/NBA/Portland/News

[barfo]

That's fantastic as far as I'm concerned.
Can we get a link to it on the blazer page?

barfo

[Denny Crane]

That's fantastic as far as I'm concerned.
Can we get a link to it on the blazer page?

barfo

I can add it below the OT forum, if that's good with you guys.

[barfo]

I can add it below the OT forum, if that's good with you guys.

Although I am one who hates clutter at the top of the page, I think the news link is entirely worthy.

barfo

[Denny Crane]

^^^ Exactly my concern (clutter at the top). Stickies are bad enough, too.

The mods can deal with those as they see fit, obviously.

[Minstrel]

I can add it below the OT forum, if that's good with you guys.

Hmm. I wonder...can you make it a sub-forum itself? By which I mean, each news/blog entry posts into that sub-forum as a new thread, which can be browsed, replied to, etc. I think that would be quite neat. It wouldn't clutter this main forum, but it would make a "constant activity" sub-forum which would both be a source of news and a place for discussion (via thoughts on the news).

Big topics, of course, would end up getting a thread here in the main forum, but all the little ones could just be discussed (or merely read) in that sub-forum.

[Denny Crane]

It's possible, but has ramifications for the Drupal part of the site.

We have the option to turn all Drupal posts and the comment threads into vB3 threads and post them into forums or subforums. The problem is that it makes the interface there much more complicated (have to choose which subforum every time you post there), and the Drupal commenting system has to be turned off.

There's also the issue that we're slurping all this content from these awesome sites, and the implied contract is we let people click on their links after reading part of their story and comment over there.

We've also had a SportsTicker news feed and tried posting that to forums, and people hated it. In practice...

[Minstrel]

*nod* If it doesn't work well in practice, or the consequences are a problem, then no problem. Just threw it out as an idea.

[Denny Crane]

It is a good idea.

I could import the posts into a Blazers group in Drupal, too. If people aren't averse to leaving the forum to post in that group, it would work out pretty good.

[barfo]

It is a good idea.

I could import the posts into a Blazers group in Drupal, too. If people aren't averse to leaving the forum to post in that group, it would work out pretty good.

We are averse to leaving the forum!

barfo

[ucatchtrout]

Blazer blogs around the net

As my excitement about the upcoming season builds I sometimes find myself searching out other tidbits of information about my favorite team. When I look past the newspapers I see that I am finding more and more people blogging about the Blazers than ever.

Here are some of the best.

Feel free to add any you like to the list

Club Blazers
http://www.clubblazers.com/
blogs and message boards

Channing Frye
http://www.channingfrye.com/blog/
Channing is a funny guy and he has a nice website and many insightful blog posts on almost anything you can imagine. Also pics and a video clip every now and then.

Brandon Roy
http://www.broy7.com/roy/index
Portlands allstar has his own webpage and blog too. He even has a place where fans can send him questions they’d like answered.

Greg Oden
http://www.yardbarker.com/users/gregoden
Our biggest Blazer has had his own site up for over a year. He posts regularly and keeps everyone up to date with what he has been doing, and even puts up an occaisional self made video.

Mike Barrett
http://mikebarrettsblog.blogspot.com/
Blazer broadcaster Mike Barrett has a nice place on the Blazers website where he keeps everyone up to date on our favorite team.

Center Court Blogspot
http://trailblazerscentercourt.blogspot.com/
Casey Holdahl holds down the fort here and posts the day to day goings on in Blazerland on the teams official blogspot.

Dwight Jaynes
http://www.dwightjaynes.com/
Long time Portland writer Dwight Jaynes posts regular musings on a variety of topics.

Portland Trailbloggers
http://www.portlandtrailbloggers.com/
3 longtime Blazer fans who’ve joined together to create a running blog and editorial page about our team.

The Oregonian
http://blog.oregonlive.com/blazers/
Oregonlive Blazers blog

The Columbian
http://www.columbian.com/section/blazerbanter
Vancouver paper Brian Hendricksons blazer blog

Blazers Edge
http://www.blazersedge.com/
No list of Blazers blogs would be complete without adding the blogs of Dave and Ben. They put something new up every day, and during the season offer detailed analysis of each game.

Ballerblogger
http://ballerblogger.com/
Ballerblogger links to this site and compiles detailed information on all NBA teams.

RipCity Project
http://www.ripcityproject.com/
RipCity Project links to this page and is the blazer blog of two local writers.

The Sports Bigamist
http://lambsticks.blogspot.com/search/label/Blazers
Fun blog with pics and videos mostly about Blazers and other local sports

Blazersog
http://blazersog.wordpress.com/
Great local blog about our team. Doesn’t update as often as I would like to see, but the articles they put up are first rate.

[masterchad10]

A few more active blazer blogs...

BustaBucket
www.bustabucket.com

Blaze of Love
http://www.blazeoflove.com

Deceptively Quick
http://deceptivelyquick.blogspot.com/

[ucatchtrout]

FYI

S2 can do some slick stuff with RSS feeds from those blogs. Check this out:

http://sportstwo.com/NBA/NewJersey/News

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Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.3 with Suhosin-Patch Server at sportstwo.com Port 80

[Denny Crane]

^^^ We changed the home page software, so that page is no longer there... MikeDC has been working on a new page for the Blazers, which you guys are asking for him to make it better...

[MikeDC]

Just in case anyone missed it, the Blazers landing page which is now linked at the top in place of the defunct RSS thing has a blogroll I've incorporated this stuff on. In keeping with the suggestions in this thread, we aren't making it the home page for RipCityTwo.com or anything, but it's there and available for anyone who wants to use it, and if you ever want a single page to link back to us from other sites, it might be the way to go for that too.

[alex42083]

Adding one more blog to the roll...

Rebecca Haarlow's blog!
http://rebeccahaarlow.blogspot.com/

[tlongII]

I'm not much of a fan of blogs myself.

[Natebishop3]

Confirmed Blazers Twitter pages:

Blazers team page - http://twitter.com/pdxtrailblazers

Antonio Harvey - http://twitter.com/pdxtone

Jim Taylor (PR guy for the Portland Trail Blazers and tech geek.) http://twitter.com/BlazerFlack

Blazers edge - http://twitter.com/blazersedge

Unconfirmed Blazers Twitter Pages:

Jerryd Bayless - http://twitter.com/JBay4

Other confirmed NBA Twitter Pages:

Mark Cuban - http://twitter.com/mcuban

NBAtv - http://twitter.com/nbatv

Charlie Villanueva - http://twitter.com/CV31

Shaq - https://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ

Paul Pierce - http://twitter.com/paulpierce34

Steve Nash - http://twitter.com/the_real_nash

Chris Bosh - http://twitter.com/chrisbosh

Jason Richardson - http://twitter.com/jrich23

LeBron James - http://twitter.com/real_lebron

Jalen Rose - http://twitter.com/jalenrose

Unconfirmed NBA Twitter Pages:

Zach Randolph - http://twitter.com/ZBO50

JR Smith - http://twitter.com/denverflyhigh

Anyone know any other confirmed or unconfirmed twitter pages of Blazer players, Blazer media, or NBA players?

Can we get this stickied?

[JE]

Twitter sucks.