Not too long ago, Portland Tribune editor Dwight Jaynes -- when I was a kid in Portland, he was the Blazer beat writer I read every day -- had me into his office just to say hi. When I got there, it turned out he was desperate for a column topic, so he ambushed me with an interview request which turned into this article. Mere days later, he left the paper business entirely. Possibly for good. No kidding! I have been reading that guy my entire life, and now he has stopped writing. Or had. Here's his new blog, up and running, live from the upper deck of his houseboat.
Something I have been wondering, really as a test of Olympic fan enthusiasm: Are people getting together to watch these games in bars or coffee shops or anything? I lived in New York for the World Cup in 1994, and it was unbelievably fun to find people from all over the world, stuffed into restaurants and bars, hurling passion at the TV. It would be fun to see Spain vs. Germany tomorrow morning among Spaniards and Germans.
A married U.S. Olympic distance runner, Kara Goucher, is pleased to have met celebrities like the President, first lady, and George H.W. Bush. She also got to talk to most of Team USA at the opening ceremonies. But in a journal she's keeping for the paper back home in Duluth, she says that an unnamed American basketball player asked for her number, and chatted her up a fair amount. That's no crime, of course, but it's probably also not in Team USA's PR handbook. (Via Deadspin)
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