Bald Faced Truth by John Canzano

Bald Faced Truth by John Canzano

Canzano: Monday Mailbag deals with time travel, Ducks/Huskies Big Ten $$, Pac-12, MLB to PDX, Trail Blazers sale... and more

Your questions. My answers.

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John Canzano
May 11, 2026
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Oregon State's Reser Stadium. (Photo: Naji Saker)

Got a time machine I can borrow?

Readers want to know what I’d do with it. In fact, time travel became an interesting and fun focal point of this installment of the Monday Mailbag.

What will be the impact of a 24-team playoff? What do I make of the partial Big Ten revenue distributions for Oregon and Washington? Will college football ever adopt a promotion and relegation model? When the numbers are eventually released, will the Mountain West or Pac-12 laugh last?

Portland’s MLB ballpark: Does size matter? What is the best concert I ever attended? What happened behind the scenes with the Trail Blazers purchase by Tom Dundon’s group? Were Merritt and Hank Paulson bidders, or not? The comment section is going to be fun this week.

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Onto the mailbag.

It’s a doozy this week…

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