If you could do it again…

Mere mortals do not attempt to do the things that Brandon Jennings does. People like you and I do not use our 40 inch vertical to sail upwards towards a metal rim only to jam a leather ball through it, smile, and return to Earth. We don't have the balls to adopt a 1989 haircut for our first excursion into the limelight (if we get a piece of the limelight...

Kevin Durant is having a homecoming party for his college sophomore NBA rookie return to D.C. with the Texas Longhorns Seattle Supersonics.   I’m sure he’s looking forward to a gay old time sipping on gin-n- juice box and gorging on that 9-11pm comp buffet…cause, as you know,...

Raptors start out with a win Lakers 2-0 Greg Oden out for 2-4 weeks - starting his career later Clippers - showing up at the Y and picking teams.

Greg Oden at the Indy 500 with people much much shorter than he is.

According to ESPN, Greg Oden is a huge Will Smith fan, loves CBS's Two and a Half Men, and dreamed of becoming a dentist when he was younger. Geez, if not for the photographic evidence showing that Oden enjoys dancing with hot chicks in extremely short skirts, I'd say he and I have pretty much nothing in common...

I am staying in Carmel, Indiana, which is north of Indianapolis. In this area lots of people know high school basketball. When you ask someone about it, the first name that pops in their minds is not Greg Oden, Michael Conley Jr., or Eric Gordon. It's JOSH MCROBERTS, one of my favorite people in the world. He is one of the funniest people I have met, and the one person in high school...

Kevin Durant has the best scoring average among rookies but Al Horford has emerged as an effective inside player at both ends of the court. Horford, not the more celebrated Durant, has been the best rookie so far.

In a constant effort to out-injure Lakers' center Andrew Bynum, Greg Oden has found himself with a chipped patella in his left knee.  Awesome!Oden, 21, underwent an MRI yesterday that revealed the injury. The 7-footer currently is resting in Indiana and will be re-evaluated Tuesday when he ...

After a listless effort in their opener, the Portland Trailblazers won a nailbiter at home against a tough San Antonio Spurs team on Friday night. The Blazers are loaded with rookie of the year candidates as many picked Greg Oden to win the award heading into the season. Rookie Spaniard Rudy Fernandez has been another trendy pick after his solid performance against Team USA in the...

Ever since the Portland Trail Blazers made Greg Oden the top pick of the NBA draft back in the summer 0f 2007, not much has seemed to go right for the oldest looking 21-year old in the world.? He missed his entire rookie season thanks to microfracture surgery on his right knee, which isn?t the ...

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced today that he is taking a 20 percent cut from his $11 million salary as the league deals with the impact from the economic downturn. The league offered voluntary layoffs, and to date has had 169 personnel do so. The layoffs have come from holding such as NFL Films, which laid off 21 of its 283 employees in March, followed by the league seeking...

Yardbarker has become one of the strongest Sports Blogs around. A big part of the strength comes from athlete bloggers. They range from Superstars to younger players just getting their careers started. Yardbarker's inherent is to have the community grade all the site's conent, so for the New Year, I figured I'd post a list of the top ten athlete bloggers. Feel free to...

Random Musings: What's on your iPod right now? Last five songs: Senorita-Justin Timberlake, All Falls Down- Kanye West, Eleanor Rigby-Beatles, How do you Want It?-2pac, Crack a Bottle-Eminem...Off-topic awesomeness.....OVER. Local +Required reading: DeMarcus Cousins update and Aaron Bright to the Huskies? [UW Dawg Pound] +High School Basketball Playoff Schedules [Seattle...

There is only two words to describe tonight's victory over Milwaukee.Beast mode.That's right, the Blazers saw a Bogut-less Milwaukee team and went into complete beast mode. Spearheaded by Greg Oden the Blazers absolutely beasted the Bucks. You can't say they didn't. Portland won the battle of ...

Marc Spears reports: Blazers center Greg Oden sprained his left ankle while coming down on teammate Shavlik Randolph?s foot at practice today in Portland. Oden received X-rays yesterday and is a game-time decision for tomorrow?s game against Boston in Portland. Blazers guard Brandon Roy has a right mild hamstring strain and is a game-time decision, too. [...]