July 13th, 2010 | by Tyler | published in Features, Sporting Life
I know I know, I’ve been gone for a while now. It’s hard to balance a life on the interweb with a life outside. What better way to spend the summer than hiking the trails, fishing with the wife and rafting with your nearest and dearest?? Yeah, I said rafting. The latest venture the group [...]
June 28th, 2010 | by Tyler | published in Features, Sporting Life
Dear Portlanders- In the time that I’ve been absent, I’ve discovered what you truly hold dear. I’m not talking about your 1985 Daewoo, or your big bearded boyfriend. I’m talking about the fact that we live in a really cool city, with cooler shit surrounding it. The great outdoors is something that few of us [...]
June 14th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Features, Sporting Life
Oh now look at this thing! The Timbers unveiled the team’s new MLS crest during halftime of the US/England World Cup match on Saturday, and it is – we think – just fine, as far as logos go. But I have a feeling we’re in the vast minority on this one. To accompany the unveiling on [...]
June 11th, 2010 | by Tyler | published in Features, Sporting Life
Yeah yeah yeah, I know. It’s still pissing outside. We’re humans though, and humans can hope. And hope I will. Here’s a list of the top three camp grounds you’ll find me at as soon as the sun comes out of hiding. 1. Trillium Lake!! I love to fish, and instead of hitting Lost Lake, [...]
June 2nd, 2010 | by Tyler | published in Analysis, Sporting Life
For all of you SM fans that love the bike community here in this rainy city, there’s a fun little spectacle going on in beautiful Mt. Tabor today. Your 2010 “Indie Hops” Cycling Classic is a 6 stage race starting yesterday, with two courses in Portland. What does this all mean for Fruit Loop junkies [...]
May 25th, 2010 | by Tyler | published in Features, Sporting Life
Yo, you undeserving Portlanders. Seriously, if you haven’t been following your favorite local blog’s involvement with the whole “Beer City USA” results, you should check it out. All the writers here at Stumptown are really amused by all this passion. You guys are the shit. Picking the comment of the week is going to be [...]
May 5th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Analysis, Sporting Life
Oh now what the fuck is this? Piggyback rides? A drug-related arrest? High school athletes? We don’t have any idea what the hell is going on with this news story, but, whatever, here we go. From the O: A man who befriended high school athletes in Washington and Oregon and asked them for piggyback rides [...]
April 28th, 2010 | by Matthew | published in Recession/Economics, Sporting Life
We’ve hit the lanes again, and all seems well in the world. Although we started out a bit rusty everyone picked up where they left off a month ago, somewhere between so-so and damn.
April 21st, 2010 | by Matthew | published in Features, Sporting Life
Turns out I lost track of our beloved Portland Beavers as I was trying to keep track of the big boys of the MLB on a variety of televisions across town. But now that the dust has settled on the opening of the 2010 season we can redirect our attention to the 6-7 Beavers.
April 19th, 2010 | by Matthew | published in Art/Culture, Sporting Life
In the eternal words of The (International) Noise Conspiracy, ‘I WANT TO SMASH IT UP, YEEEAAHH!’