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Henry Abbott reports the Oregonian has hired former Mercury News sports editor
Craig Lancaster to examine its fractious relationship with the Portland Trail Blazers front office. Lancaster says: "It's definitely not an ombudsman-type piece. It's not even an investigation. Because there's really nothing to investigate. It's just a whole lot of he said, she said. It's really more of an examination of what has gone on. Things had gotten bad enough that the Oregonian thought they ought to explain. But they can't do that directly, because they have a dog in this fight."
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