Canzano now committing slander?

Canzano's most recent article shows his desperation... desperation for headlines... desperation for some sort of critical notoriety... desperation for more acclaim.

From the time that the Bald Faced Hypocrite coined the phrase "JailBlazers" in a column and began some real investigative journalism (uncovering a secret deal where a Blazer player's fine would be refunded), he has fancied himself some kind of Woodward & Bernstein of the Sports world. There was a problem with this... he's a lousy journalist. He's a hack. Today, though, he crossed the line.

Ah, yes, more of the fact based reporting by the... oops... I forgot The Bald Faced Hypocrite is a columnist not a reporter.

I am amazed by the number of people who seem to think that they know what happened in Mexico based on published reports. For the people who question the fact that Morrison was ID'd... keep in mind that the pictures in question were taken the night after the attack and then taken to the hospital for Meagher to look at... with no comparison photos...

Granted... not a lot of 6'11" guys, but there are plenty of tall guys roaming around... and plenty of short guys running around.

The crimes we should be talking about are libel and slander. There was a rush to "condemn" the actions in this before the facts were fully known... I can say this... if someone had the money to pay for some medical bills, they have the money for a good attorney.

Finally, I am appalled by Mr. Morrison's father's comments where he said the victim "got himself beat up" and "got himself into trouble" as if somehow the victim brought it upon himself.

I am sure that this will not be "approved" by teh Bald Faced Hypocrite... most of my posts aren't simply because I ALWAYS disagree with The Bald Faced Hypocrite.

The best thing to come of the PSU story... Canzano may have stuck his foot in his mouth... maybe this is the impetus needed to start a real campaign against the Bald Faced Moron!

I sure hope Scott Morrison has a good attorney!

Surprised yet?

I'm not. Once again, The Bald Faced Hypocrite is using his Oregonian gig as a long arm of the Blazers law. It was already publicly reported that the Blazers had scolded Oden for his dubious decision to play a pick up basketball game at 24 Hour Fitness.

So Canzano feels the need to chime in? I guess the Blazer Brass decided that the message wasn't clear enough and that they needed their paid hack to publicly flog him. Or, maybe this was done in a futile attempt for Canzano to act as if he is some independent arm of the Blazers and is not their paid biotch. The fact is he IS their paid [female dog] and we all know it... all except for the Bald Headed Hypocrite.

Nonetheless, his hypocrisy continues to reign supreme at the Oregonian. I will stay vigilant. In fact, I write the Oregonian demanding a retraction for Canzano's scandalous "facts" from the Ernie Kent article. And, of course, today he has the audacity to hawk his other programs through his blog... what a chump.

One of these days, The Bald Faced Hypocrite will look in the mirror and realize he is a pile of crap hack... until then I will continue to fight every word he says.

Canzano only has one life, and that's one too many

So, here we go again. Canzano just cannot help himself... he simply has to find a way to throw insult through every article written about the University of Oregon. He thinks he has escaped this time, from the wrath that is my writing because I had waited some time before responding to his most recent stupidity.

It seems that the Bald Headed Moron just cannot stop his jealous reference to the University of Oregon. In his most recent article concerning the "nine lives of Ernie Kent," The Bald Faced Hypocrite continues his theme of referring to the Athletic Department as the "Knights Templar." Now, the problem I have with this is, once again, he is using his "pulpit" as a "writer" (I use that term very loosely in his case) to create a negative mindset towards everything that is the University of Oregon. Why, why all the hostility John? Was that news anchor you cheated on your wife with a Beaver? Was it a Duck grad that caught you?

There is no such thing as the "Knights Templar" it is a fictitious creation of The Bald Headed Hypocrites own imagination to further fuel a fire he has created. Rather than report responsibly, he CONTINUES to use his position with the Oregonian to work on his own personal agenda.

Now, I am not going to argue some of the points he makes... Ernie Kent is not likely the best game coach, and he is a very good recruiter. Nonetheless, Canzano makes statements as fact that he cannot substantiate. First he QUOTES a "national basketball analyst" as saying that Ernie Kent has nine lives. But, do you like how he disguises his made up words behind a facade that cannot be challenged...

First, he doesn't name this analyst (why? Because the analyst would then expose Canzano's statement as unsubstantiated BS). Then he says that the statement was made "in passing." Yeah, sure... and when I was at the airport the other day a local sports writer said in passing that Canzano is a homosexual.

Now, on to the worst part of his story... regardless of what we may think of Ernie Kent's past, present and future, the statement he made about Kent's former players is ludicrous. In fact, we should DEMAND that he print a retraction unless he names the sources that have told him this. I am referring, of course, to the statement where The Bald Faced Pile of Crap says that "on the whole" Kent's former players "don't really care for him." Now, once again, he doesn't name any one in particular, that way his lies and half-truths cannot be challenged.

Furthermore, this was a deliberate attack designed to weaken Kent's recruiting abilities. If, after all, so many former players cannot stand him, how can he continue to recruit so well? After all, when players don't care for a coach, they will speak their minds... those who don't like Bobby Knight have no problem telling people about it... but if The Bald Faced Idiot puts that kind of statement out there, it gets presented as factual, he can impact the ability of future recruiting attempts... at least that's what he thinks.

It makes me wonder where the Bald Faced Hypocrite went to college... maybe all this animosity has to do with a mysterious allegiance to Stan Love and UCLA... after all, Mike Bellotti has turned down UCLA twice leaving them mired in mediocrity. Bob Toledo took that team to the dumps in a hurry... and, well, we all know Stan Love wishes he had gone to UCLA... this must be it! Canzano is anti-Oregon because of some secret love affair with UCLA!

That's it for today. Though I did say something funny on his blog which I am quite sure he will not let be posted... in today's blog about being WRONG on his pick for Portland State to cover the spread against Kansas he says he is a writer not a handicapper.... my response:

"Whoa... whoa WHOA... when did you become a writer? You are right about one thing, though, you aren't a handicapper either"

Once again, Canzano is an idiot.

"This isn't a PR firm"

Wow, I laughed, literally, out loud reading the Bald Faced Hypocrites commentary in his blog today. This is a newspaper, not a PR from.... uh, then how come you are the Blazers paid hack of a PR firm? Please, Canzano does not treat the Oregonian as a "newspaper" he treats it as his own personal soapbox/vendetta/other Employer (Blazers) PR machine.

Canzano has no interest in writing articles or columns that have journalistic merits... he only cares about bad mouthing those he doesn't like and being the hack PR man for the Blazers. Well, at least he made me laugh today with such an incredulously ridiculous lie. It's a lie and he knows it.

Having an Impact?

Maybe, just maybe, my words have somewhat impacted the Bald Faced Hypocrite. From today's blog I gleaned this bit of information:

I've been away for a week on vacation, but I didn't miss Pat Kilkenny's $1 million donation to academics at the University of Oregon. This isn't a major story, but it's a good thing. Not sure how anyone can possibly twist it in any different manner. I don't care if the Ducks' AD needed the tax deduction. I don't care if it was leaked to gain public leverage, or support from the academics when it comes to the arena project, blah, blah, blah. All I care is that someone who had a choice did something good for academics in the way that Bob Knight, and others, have done for other universities.

Yet, like how he got his own little jab... he does do his best to make the insinuation that his donation is not entirely altruistic by mentioning the tax benefit. He also insinuates that the information was leaked in order to gain leverage and/or support. While he says he "doesn't care" about those reasons, let there be no doubt, he threw those concepts in there for a reason. If he truly didn't care, he wouldn't have mentioned them.

I also love how he throws Kilkenny into the same sentence as Bobby Knight. This was certainly intentional and it only serves to prove his continuing bias against the UO. He could easily have left out the references to the tax break and Bob Knight, but chose to include them... he is still a hypocrite... can't change his DNA...

Nonetheless, I find it interesting that he is responding almost verbatim to my commentary regarding his thoughts... maybe the Bald Faced Hypocrite has a new daily reading list.

Why, though, did I have to scroll through the blithering of a moron about some HBO show to get to his commentary? Well, what can you expect from a pseudo-journalist like Canzano? He can't write more than about 50 positive words about his topics (unless the Blazers pay handsomely for a "press release"), so he needs filler words. What would this guy have been before television existed? NOTHING!

More of the same

I am not surprised at the sappy "what a great voice we have" story. Why? Because Canzano KNOWS that the Blazers still take a lot of heat for the way they handled firing Schonley. The Blazers paid hack needs to win everyone over... how, pray tell, will the Blazers overcome this obstacle? Have Canzano write a "journalistic" article in the local paper "marveling" at what an amazing sportscaster Wheeler is.

Personally, I haven't watched the NBA since about 1998... the games suck and none of the players seem to truly care. But to "marvel" at someone being named sports play-by-play radio announcer of the year for the State of Oregon is akin to being named Governor of the year for the Pacific Northwest... it's not like there are a lot of choices here... Jerry Allen, Brian Wheeler and the OSU guy... that's it.... whoopity do... and how long, exactly, did it take for Wheeler to "earn" that honor?

This is nothing more than Canzano, once again, writing something that supports the goals of his employer (the Portland Trail Blazers)... this was more like a Blazers press release than anything else. It certainly wasn't journalism. Then again, what else can we expect from the Bald Headed Hypocrite? Nothing. This is what he is.

What I found most interesting over the last couple of weeks is his silence on the Kilkenny's donation. I wonder, now that he has been critical of Ernie Kent, what will he say about the coach now that he has seemingly gotten them onto the right track again? Will he come out with a positive piece on the coach? Will he still be critical? Or will he remain silent as he has on Kilkenny's donation. I know what I think he will do. After all most spineless jellyfish tend to repeat the same actions over and over again... they do what their DNA tells them... So does the Bald Faced Hypocrite.

As for his bosses, I encourage anyone who runs across this to email them... I did and here is the response I received from Executive Editor Peter Bhatia:

Scott: Thanks for your e-mail about John Canzano's radio
show. The issues you raise were carefully weighed by us
and John before he was allowed to do the show. He was
guaranteed full independence in his commentary by KXL
and all indications are that has been the case. In fact,
John would be the first to pull the plug if there was any
interference. As for his coverage of the Blazers, it speaks
for itself. Obviously, the Blazers are a happier story
this year than in the recent past. John has given them
credit for success but hasn't been afraid to criticize
when he feels it is deserved. 

What a crock. While they may not be the
"JailBlazers" of old, they are only what
we hear. If the Bald Faced Hypocrite
wants them to be a happy story, that's
what he'll make them. After all, that's
what he gets paid to do. If the Blazers
want Darius Miles to retire... Canzano
will write a scathing piece on his "dedication"
(I STILL wonder how Canzano knew where
to go to find him that night). If the Blazers
want to let the world "know" that they made
the "right decision" regarding Schonley gee,
all they need to do is have the Bald Faced
Hypocrite write an article detailing what a
wonderful treat he (Wheeler) is to listen to.
Well, I have news for the Blazers, the Bald
Faced Hypocrite and Wheeler, he is one of
the reasons I would not listen to the Blazers
on the radio.  His voice was irritating and
grating to my ears. His desperation
to come up with his own "catch phrase" to
separate himself from Schonley should be
humiliating to his own self image.

As long as the Bald Faced Hypocrite sings
his praises I am inclined to feel the opposite...
kind of like the Seinfeld episode where George
does the opposite of his normal instincts...
whatever Canzano supports, I am going to
oppose. If you wish to write to Peter Bhatia,
his email address is: 
pbhatia@news.oregonian.com

Have an impact... keep flooding them
with complaints!
  

Oden article

I have a tremendous amount of respect for Greg Odens decision to make himself public in his support for his political beliefs. It is rare that a young man has such good principles that he recognizes his importance in shaping the world through his actions. Not only his actions on the court, but those off the court.

There have been many a great NBA superstar who have been reluctant to do so for fear of tarnishing their endorsement deals. Please do not take today's comments as a jab at his politics. Because, personally, I think he is a very interesting young man and appreciate that he brings an aura of social consciousness not seen by Portland athletes since the days of Bill Walton (do NOT get me started on him)!

I do, however, again take issue with the man who writes this. How in the world can the Oregonian continue to allow him to be called a columnist? He is nothing more than the Blazers' paid hack, sent to promote their agenda through his words. There are far too few people who know who pays for his KXL gig... too many people who believe he is merely an employee of the Oregonian writing from an "objective" view. His view on the Trail Blazers has been anything BUT objective.

I continually comment on this conflict of interest only to have the posts removed, but he cannot remove them from here. I am going to take it to the sports editor, the Publisher ANYONE at the Oregonian who understands that he should be restricted from writing anything about Portland Trail Blazer basketball due to the OBVIOUS conflict of interest presented by his KXL gig. I doubt they will listen... he must have pictures of someone doing something because he seems to be untouchable at that paper.

I encourage ANYONE who reads this to write to the Oregonian... ask them to prohibit John Canzano from writing ANYTHING about the Blazers until he is no longer their employee. One step at a time... one step at a time...

I do find it interesting how quiet he has been on the Kilkenny donation. His last column was Wednesday... the Kilkenny announcement came Thursday... and nothing... just shows that Canzano does not have the ability to make positive comments about the University of Oregon. How can one man with so many obvious journalistic limits keep being considered so untouchable? Maybe the Oregonian just can't attract good journalists...

Not sure, I still think Canzano will write a column that twists the Kilkenny donation into something else... time will tell...

I have written to Sandy Rowe and Therese Bottomly asking to remove this responsibility from Canzano... I encourage you to do the same... their email addresses are: srowe@news.oregonian.com and theresebottomly@news.oregonian.com

Canzano faced with Dilemma?

What, I wonder, will Canzano write about after learning of Kilkenny's donation to the University of Oregon ACADEMICS programs? My guess is that he will accuse Kilkenny of making a self-serving donation to as a simplistic gesture to answer academicians who continually criticize the amount of money donated to athletics while academic giving lags.

Personally, I have ALWAYS disagreed with this theory. But let me first address what I believe will be the back handed attempt by the Bald Faced Moron to, once again, take a personal shot at the University of Oregon. Pat Kilkenny is a businessman first, who has a great love for his alma mater. Pat Kilkenny recognizes the importance of academics at any university. After all, where would ANY of us be without education?

More importantly, Pat recognizes the important role that athletics can play on increasing academic giving. Yes, people will give money for athletics. But think about the mind set of those people who willingly donate money to ANY charitable organization... if a man has already opened his mind to the importance of his contributions to the continuing success of a university's athletics teams, will he not be more open to the concept of similar donations to help the academics programs? I say yes.

It is much more difficult for academic donor seekers to cold-call someone who has never donated a dime to his alma mater than to call the football fan who already gives some form of donation. Athletics donations open the door. More importantly, from Pat Kilkenny's perspective, he is a leader. He is leading Duck fans with actions right now, PROVING he understands the importance of academics.

There does not have to be a battle of the wills between the academics and athletics departments at any university. The goals of the two are NOT mutually exclusive. Oregon is a leader in pro-actively separating it's funding stream from general funds. It is an important step in the evolution of college athletics that the athletics department NOT draw from the general fund. When a university is able to divest itself from supporting it's athletics with general fund money, they inherently have more money for academics.

Furthermore, regardless of what may be said, athletics can be a very rewarding experience for all involved. The values of team work, accountability, respect for authority, leadership, goal setting and learning how to overcome adversity are just as valuable as the lessons learned in a classroom. Without these very vital lessons, a young adult is incomplete as a person.

How is the young business graduate supposed to learn how to thrive in the workplace without these very important concepts? He or she cannot.

Does this excuse everything bad that may happen? Absolutely not. However, it is important to remember that the media only covers what sells. Nothing more, nothing less. Thereby, what is heard when the news plays? the BAD things that athletes do. While members of the media (like Canzano) criticize the actions of a few athletes and their transgressions, do they remember to remind us that said athlete is only one of 85 on scholarship? Does he mention that 99% of the players at said school remain trouble free?

No. Why? Because that does not serve their purpose. Let there be no mistake, local newscasts, local sports shows, even national sports shows have an objective... and honest journalism is not that objective. Advertising dollars ARE that objective.

So while hypocritical chumps like Canzano get on their moral high horse to preach about how "bad" athletes and athletics departments are... ask why he is writing such one-sided stories. Is it because he only cares about the truth and presenting it in a fair and objective manner? Or is it because he recognizes that his job is dependent on advertising dollars and he only prints what he thinks will keep the subscriptions flowing? I know what my answer is... you be your own judge.

Oh the conflicts of Interest!

Today, Canzano, in his infinite stupidity, writes an article spelling the wonderful virtue that was the TrailBlazers acquisition of James Jones. I have no qualms with this concept, because it was a very good acquisition.

However, I DO have a problem with the conflict of interest that is John Canzano's employment. He is paid through KXL by the Portland TrailBlazers and his most recent columns SHOW who really pays his salary. He is nothing more, now, than an expensive publicist who is also permitted to print personal vendettas through a "journalistic" point of view.

In response to his blog, a fellow Duck fan rightfully asked why John has yet to write about a Beaver player who was involved in a DUI hit and run. This was a SENIOR starter who is on scholarship. If, after all, it is SO imperative, that Canzano write a scathing article about a third string non-scholarship player from the University of Oregon, why is it not imperative to do so when a STARTING Beaver player is involved in a drunken hit & run? I guess because he has no personal vendettas against Mike Riley.

I further pointed out that nothing was written last year when a Beaver baseball player was convicted of theft and fraud DURING the season and not a word was mentioned. His defense.... "well, someone else wrote about it." The point was and still is that CANZANO did not write about it? Why does he only write negative about one state school? Why is it that the boys from Cornholetown are exempt from his "duty" (as he calls it) to report what the news is?

Why? Because he has no integrity or journalistic ethics. He is nothing but a panzy with a pen. He is the kid that wanted to be like the jocks in high school; hung out with them, but got made fun of behind his back.

The fact is he was a loser who couldn't cut it at sports and he has an inferiority complex... that's what his problem with the University of Oregon is... nothing will cure it, but as long as he spews false venom, I will continue to post my own thoughts.

Funny how he once again edited out my commentary about the conflict of interest that is his KXL gig... I guess he knows he has no integrity, he just cannot admit it! What would you expect from a pile of dung loser like him...

The system? Or the individuals?

So, the moronic fool who would like to consider himself a journalist is once again spewing stupidity.

Is there any question who "funded" his article practically begging Darius Miles to retire? Who pays his $80,000 salary at KXL? Oh Yeah, the Portland Trail Blazers... talk about your conflict of interests!

At least this time his rubbish was clever. He disguised his stupidity inside a very real and tragic story... and most of his little clone butt kissers just followed suit. Although, seeing how he has literally changed my comments to suit his own ego, who knows what these people ACTUALLY wrote.

Today's article was simple, he was speaking of the recent "incident" involving a youth girls basketball coach. He used that disgusting display of poor sportsmanship to get on his high horse to propose that we eliminate all organized youth sports because the Youth Sports leagues are the reason fools act like him.

Well, that is not why parents and coaches act boorishly. People act boorishly because they are boorish. Period. The reason that it seems that youth sports has gone wild is not the fault of caring parents who want to spend time with their children and help them learn the valuable lessons that sports teach. No, youth sports seem to have gone wild because of the media.

I commented on this today, and, once again, Canzano is too much of a chump to print anything for which he does not have a pre-set argument at the ready. And this was my point to him...

"When was the last time the news covered an event where the coaches DID show good sportsmanship? How many sporting events were held in Oregon on Saturday? And how many GOOD acts of sportsmanship were shown? Where was the coverage of THOSE events? Whose fault is it that the only youth sports news we get exposed to is bad news?

It is the fault of so-called journalists only looking to sell newspapers or advertising.

Where was the media when my son's 6th grade baseball team was being taunted by our opponent... when I told my team that we would stick to our values. We would not taunt back; we would not respond. Instead we would play baseball as a team and have a good time? Nowhere.

Where was the media when that same team played it's final game of the season against a team who could not gain or lose their "playoff" seeding in the final game. Our team was not going to go to the playoffs. Our league was the lowest level of competitive youth baseball... these were not all-stars. Late in the game, my boys were winning by two runs when our opponent decided that since they could not get a hit off of our pitcher, they were going to bunt every single pitch hoping for an error.

As my team started to get angry, frustrated and embarrassed by this tactic... did we call anyone names? No, I simply asked them why they were playing baseball... to have fun... "what is more fun, getting hits or bunting the ball?" Well, the kids unanimously wanted to take their cuts and get hits. That's what we did. We lost the game that day, but we won in spirit because we displayed an immense sportsmanship that could not be touched. We were there to play baseball and have fun. Where was the media?

How about the time my step son was taking his warm-up swings in the on deck circle... only to have one of his team mates not pay attention and walk behind him... getting hit in the nose and breaking it. My step-son was distraught... he wanted to quit playing baseball forever. Seriously, he was ready to quit... then the OPPOSING COACH came over to encourage him to continue playing. He did, and hit a double in that at bat. Where was the media? Why wasn't Canzano out there writing an article?

No, it is not youth sports fault that people act stupid. It is the individual person who is at fault. It is the media's fault for only covering the bad side of youth sports.

And that is sad, because they could have a tremendously positive impact on children and coaches, they just choose not to.

Darius Miles Column

Now, this is funny, so I am almost always disgusted by the idiocy that is John Canzano, columnist for the Oregonian. Recently he wrote a column about Darius Miles which I thought was a cheap shot not only at Miles, but at Dennis Dixon as well. See, Canzano, while he occasionally has negative things to say about every sports program in the state has a personal vendetta against Mike Bellotti and the Oregon Ducks football team. So, here is what I REALLY wrote on HIS blog:

So, I guess JC knows Darius' whereabouts 24 hours a day. I guess it is not at all possible for Darius to have worked out for 3-4 hours in the morning, taken some court time in the afternoon to work on his game, watched some film then gone to a club after all that. I mean, I guess that is entirely impossible... I guess Darius was in that strip club 24 consecutive hours.

And, apparently, Canzano knows what Darius thinks at all times because he has told us what Darius thinks.

I must admit, though, that Canzano's trench coat and fedora must have been a very effective design... after all, how could he have gotten all that good information without being spotted... the question is, were you already there and got lucky to spot Darius there??? or did you follow him in??? either way... sounds like you'd fit in better at the National Enquirer than at a true periodical...

Maybe it is time for Canzano to retire, after all, he appears to like hanging out at strip clubs waiting to spot NBA players and their entourages... maybe he could go back to journalism school, learn some ethics and become a REAL journalist... but I doubt that will ever happen...

And this is what he changed it to:

Posted by ducks39 on 02/15/08 at 7:30PM

JC: You're an outstanding columnist. I appreciate your viewpoints. Please keep writing the truth.

Talk about your insecure writers. All because in another post, I asked a simple question

"John, does your ex-wife like the anchor woman you cheated on her with?"

You see, he can dish out the negative truths, but he can't take it. He has made himself a public figure with his column and radio gigs making HIS transgressions fair game. Little Johnny boy, though, couldn't handle it.

So, I have created this blog to talk trash and provide the OTHER side of the story. Every time Canzano writes a negative Ducks reference, I am going to blast him. Here, he has NO control over what I say. Every time he writes something that is ridiculous, I am going to refute him here.

For you Beaver Believers that want to bash me for my bias... keep in mind he has written just as much bad about the Beavs as he has the Ducks (well, not as much, but he did start the Fire Mike Riley campaign two years in a row with his columns). This is not about the Ducks, the Beavs, the Blazers or any other team specifically, it is about an ego-maniac who has lost sight of reality and has no credible boundaries nor ANY journalistic integrity. I am sick of his unfettered comments that no one can truly contest without him pouting and crying like the panzy he is.

Don't like what I have to say? Oh well.