It was a long way from the Ri Ra pub in the Old Port in Portland, but the games and the culture of the Persian Gulf nation were intense.
Hal Madsen
Hal Madsen has been a journalist for 50 years, including 44 with the Portland Press Herald, where he won state and regional awards for writing and editing. He also spent six years at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he was assistant sports editor and covered Triple-A baseball, as well as the heydays of championship boxing and UNLV basketball.
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