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Book Your Flight To Some Summer Reading Adventures …

I have a bit of a love/hate thing about John Thompson.

Like/dislike, to be more accurate.

Dislike because I often felt that about the way Thompson, the Hall of Fame basketball coach at Georgetown, went about his business.

Like because I very much enjoyed reading his autobiography, published posthumously and given to me as a Christmas present by my son Troy.

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The original Trail Blazer is gone
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The original Trail Blazer is gone

I’m guessing Harry Glickman stood 5-10, but he was a giant of a man.

Blazer fans recognize him as the gravel-voiced, warm-hearted executive who paved the way toward Portland getting its only franchise in the big four major sports leagues.

Glickman, who died Wednesday at age 96, was the patriarch of the Trail Blazers. But he was much more than that.

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