Ryan Fernandez

3 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Ryan Fernandez

Portland loves women’s sports. We had the world’s first sports bar playing only women’s sports. Attendance at Thorns matches is among the highest in the NWSL league. The team averaged nearly 20,000 fans per game in 2019 — the most for any women’s sport in the world at the time. And for good reason. The Thorns have been very good for a very long time. Portland has been lucky to see many great players don the black and red. But we want to know which one is the best ... according to our readers.

1 month ago | oregonlive.com | Ryan Fernandez

This is it. This is the definitive post where the best Portland Trail Blazers player of all time shall be named — at least according to our readers. Last week, we asked for readers to vote on who was the best Blazers player of all time. There were eight options based on an earlier round of reader nominations. The race between the top two players came down to only 11 votes. Ten years ago, we ran a vote to name the best Blazers power forward of all time, and Lucas won that vote.

1 month ago | oregonlive.com | Ryan Fernandez

Welcome to Portland, Saucy! Portland’s new pre-professional soccer team, the Portland Bangers, is a day away from its inaugural season and just revealed a new mascot. Its name is Saucy T. Sausage and, seeing how the Bangers were created by the same people behind The Portland Pickles, it is here to sauce things up. Saucy is a tall sausage that, according to a video released on Instagram, was created by Dillon T. Pickle.

1 month ago | oregonlive.com | Ryan Fernandez

Does Adam Sandler love Portland? Who knows. But we do know that at least one Portlander loves Adam Sandler. Riza Antonio is throwing an Adam Sandler costume party Saturday at Cathedral Park and wants all Sandler fans to join, dressed as their favorite Sandler character. Antonio is going with a character from Happy Gilmore, but any Sandler (or Sandler-related character) will do. There will be prizes, photoshoots, raffles and more. Participants should bring their own chairs and snacks.

1 month ago | oregonlive.com | Ryan Fernandez

When we asked our readers which Portland Trail Blazer was the best of all time, we expected the usual suspects. And we will get to them soon. But looking over the nominations was an interesting view into some fan favorites who either got more votes than expected or not as many as we thought. For the vote below, a player had to be nominated more than twice to be included. This ultimately led to some big names being left off the list.