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Via HoopsHype, the Portland Tribune's Kerry Eggers updates us on Zach Randolph's latest visit to Rip City on May 31.

Zach was out enjoying himself at Ohm nightclub when, at 1:30 a.m., police responded to a 911 call about a disturbance.

"We were told Zach showed up with an entourage and got into a disagreement with a known gang member and drug dealer," Mike Reese, central precinct commander for the Portland Police Bureau, tells the Portland Tribune's Nick Budnick.

When police arrived, the scene at Ohm "looked like an old western barroom brawl, with chairs and tables being thrown around ... the bar was trashed," Reese says. Police emptied out the remaining patrons and shut down the club.

Aah, Z-Bo. How the police officers of Portland missed you. How Portland has missed you. It seems worth nothing the reason why Z-Bo was in Portland: he had a May 30 court date for a January incident where a man alleged Zach and old buddy Qyntel Woods beat him up for snitching about Qyntel's dog situation. (Randolph settled, Eggers surmises.)

No word on whether Z-Bo punched anyone in the airport terminal, the McDonald's drive-thru, in the hotel lobby, at the precinct, or anywhere else.

With Michael Vick in the news for what might be dogfighting and Artest having just beat his animal cruelty case, it's high time we acknowledge the originator. That's right, I'm talking about Qyntel Woods, who while with the Blazers was busted for all sorts of shady things involving pit bulls. Woods appears to be out of the league, but his legend lives on.

To make sure we never forget Woods, John Canzano decided to follow up on the story. He did so by checking in on Stella, the dog at the heart of Woods' sins. From Canzano's second update on the dog:

In the event you want more on Stella, she has a profile on dogster. Also, you should know she finished second recently in a pit bull photo contest. Turns out Woods had a supermodel, not a fighter, on his hands.

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There's a lot of theories about what Woods was doing with Stella before he dumped her in a Northeast Portland alley, bleeding and scraped up. He could have been fighting her. He could have been using her to train other dogs. One dog person tells me he could have been preparing to breed her, and wanted to see how much fight she had in her before doing so.

I know, I know, animals are people too and this is no laughing matter. And trust me, I'm not laughing about it. I just think it's funny that Woods got run out of the league, and is remembered primarily for this fiasco. Whereas with Vick and Artest, expect this to blow over by next season. Lesson for Qyntel Woods: maybe if you'd been a little more of a player, you could have gotten away with (dog) murder.