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OPINION & NEWS
Kobe, loved in Rip City
STORY BY JACOB THOMPSON
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Jan. 2 6 ,' 2020, will be a date
always remembered as the day
the basketball community lost a
legend.
Here in Portland, Kobe Biyant, the
basketball player, was the villain.
Somehow it always seemed Kobe
and his Los Angeles Lakers were
destined to ruin Portland’s chance
at gaining glory.
- 1 grew up in a house that could
not stand Kobe. Anytime Bryant,was
on TV, the sentiment that he was
overrated, a ball hog, and he would
never be better than Michael Jordan
was never far behind.
Kobe was the villain and the few
times I was lucky enough to be in the
Rose Garden/Moda Center when the
bitter rival Lakers were in the house,
it seemed like all of Portland agreed.
Thatidea, that Kobe was the bad guy,
changed for me on March 3, 2014.
_ Kobe wasn’t playing at the time,
as he was still recovering from a
torn Achilles he suffered the prior
season, but he was in street Clothes
supporting his squad that was
struggling without him. Somehow,
the damn Lakers won despite not
having Mamba on the court, but the
memory has little to do with the
game.
Back in those days, fans could
go down to the.p layers’ parking
lot and try to get some autographs
as the players left the arena. So
there we were; me, my buddy Adam
Archie and about 30 other Blazers
fans trying to get autographs from
players.
We got the Portland autographs
we wanted and it seemed like all
the players were on their way out,
but the fans still hung around. Then
it happened: Kobe Bean Bryant
walked down the loading ramp. I
didn’t know how things were about
to go down, but I never could have
imagined what happened next. The
Portland faithful broke out in a
MVP chant for Bryant. Kobe didn’t
sign anything that night, but I will
always remember that m illion-
dollar smile on his face as he made
his way towards the Lakers’ team
bus, almost as if h e knew he had
wort us over that night. We could
boo him in the masses, but when he
was 10 feet away, we could only bask
in his glory.
1 This dude was the read deal, and
even though his heroics often broke
our hearts, we couldn’t deny that he
was the best.
Grant expands shuttle service
G etting to class has gotten a lot easier this term
due to a shuttle grant Clackam as Com m unity
College received last spring.
According to CCC Transportation Systems
Analyst Ray A tkinson, the funds were acquired
through
the
Statewide
Transportation
Im provem ent Fund, which granted CCC a total
of $245,774.
This grant has allowed CCC to expand the
sh u ttle’ s evening service year-round and add
summer term service.
The pre-grant evening service ended at 6:3b
EST. 1966
Photos by Jordy Villagomez
p .m . Monday through Thursday. The expanded
evening service now ends at 10:45 p .m . Monday
through Thursday.
Because C C C is closed on Friday during the
summer term , the shuttle will be available
M onday-Thursday from 7:30 a.m . to 10:45 p.m.
The shuttle’ s extended hours began in June of
2019 and are expected to last through June 2021.
Shuttle services are free to a lf students, faculty
and staff, as well as the public.
— Rebekah Thompson
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January 29,2020