| 18 August 2010
Update: Both local and national media are talking about the messy divorce between Rudy Fernandez and the Blazers - which suggest Fernandez will not attend camp for Portland.
Jorge Sierra has more with Fernandez's agent (who also represents Andre Miller - how will this impact his relationship with the Blazers?) Andy Miller over at HoopsHype:
It’s only a matter of time before Terry Porter returns to coaching in the NBA.
Apparently that time is not right now.
Late last month Porter’s name surfaced as a candidate to replace departed assistant coach Pete Myers with the Chicago Bulls as part of new head coach Tom Thibodeau’s coaching staff. Nothing materialized from the report except murmurs that Porter’s name still holds weight in NBA coaching circles and his time in the sidelines is far from over. Chances are next time you hear of a coaching vacancy – head coaching or an assistant on a staff - Porter’s name will be mentioned.
Even if you don’t think the guy is head coach material, there is no getting around his know-how in helping mold guards as an assistant coach. Surely he deserves more than a 51-game stint in Phoenix as a lasting coaching memory. And while the former point guard remains a fixture in Portland as a community ambassador for the Blazers (a postion he is proud to hold), Porter’s time back in coaching will come again one day.
A year after Josh Cameron, spent his rookie season watching and learning with the Portland Timbers, the Centennial graduate and Gresham native is earning his keep on the soccer field.
“This is completely different. The coaches trust you enough to put you on the lineup card, so you need to be prepared to go in, Cameron told the Gresham Outlook.
“Last year it was almost like I was just happy to be there, but the coaches challenged me and now I have higher expectations.”
Eugene Wong is going big time on the golf course. The Oregon Duck earned two NCAA golf titles and helped the Ducks place third in the national tournament will be among the 312-player field at the U.S. Amateur beginning next Monday at Chambers Bay in Tacoma, Wash., and the Home Course in nearby Dupont. Wong - who shared PAC 10 player of the year honors with Nick Taylor - will return to Oregon in September for two more years of school and golf.
Mouse Davis – the former head coach and assistant football coach at Portland State – is back coaching at the University of Hawaii and he can’t help but live in the past. People won’t let the 77-year old Davis forget: Late in the 1980 football season, Mouse’s Portland State Vikings shellacked lowly Delaware State by the incredible score of 105-0. Oh, how Nigel Burton wouldn’t mind the Vikings putting up that kind of number this season in his first season as head coach at PSU.
You’ve heard this one before: the Oregon State Beavers play one of their toughest football schedules this season. It could be the fourth toughest (Miami, Virginia and Tennessee don’t have it easy either) in the nation – at least according to one report. Right now in Corvallis though, all that matters for Mike Riley is their first game in Dallas against TCU. This just in: the dome will be closed.
Speaking of schedules, the University of Portland released their men’s basketball schedule for the 2010-11 season and it is stacked. The Pilots play 11 games against teams who advanced to postseason play last year, with five regular season games to be televised nationally on a number of ESPN outlets. As part of their schedule, Eric Reveno’s team faces Elite Eight participant Kentucky at the Rose Garden, welcomes UC-Santa Barbara (NCAA First Round), Nevada (NIT Second Round) and Saint Louis (CBI Finalist) as part of the non-conference home schedule.
photo: zimbio
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