Art Edwards

3 weeks ago | kgw.com | Art Edwards

PORTLAND, Ore. — The work on the futsal court is intense. Nine- and 10-year-olds from the Rose City Futsal select team are preparing for the trip of a lifetime. "Sometimes I just like to shoot baskets with my dad, but I love the game of futsal," says Henry Meschke. Meschke and the rest of the team are getting ready for the Costa Blanca Cup in Benidorm, Spain. Three nights a week these players sharpen their skills. Futsal is a fast-paced indoor version of soccer.

1 month ago | kgw.com | Art Edwards

MILWAUKIE, Ore. — It's a family affair for the La Salle Prep Falcons tennis team. Senior Kennedy Harris is the top player on the school's girls team — her brother Kaiden is a sophomore and in the same position on the boys team. “We’ve practiced together since we were little.  It's what we've grown up doing.  It's always just been about supporting each other, really,” said Kennedy. So, do they like practicing with each other?

1 month ago | kgw.com | Art Edwards

VANCOUVER, Wash. — The U.S. Tennis Association's blind and low vision tennis program is in full swing at the Vancouver Tennis Center. "Once I found out the game, I’m like 'wow this is really cool,'" said Theo Burkhalter,  a student at the Washington State School for the Blind. Theo has been playing blind tennis for about three years. The ball is a little larger than a standard tennis ball, and either sounds like a rattle or a bell.

1 month ago | kgw.com | Art Edwards

PORTLAND, Ore. — "Blazers fans are going free," said columnist John Canzano, reacting to the news that the Portland Trail Blazers are officially for sale. Canzano joined KGW's Art Edwards to discuss what the sale means for the future of the franchise, Jody Allen's decision to sell and whether Phil Knight could still be in the mix to buy the team. Read the full transcript of their conversation below.

2 months ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Art Edwards

Elaine Pagels, the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University, won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for her book The Gnostic Gospels (1979). The book discusses and analyzes the eponymous gospels—a set of 52 texts discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945 that contain alternative stories about Jesus. In this book, Pagels doesn’t concern herself primarily with whether or not these writings are the word of God.