The Portland Mercury has featured several notable stories this morning, including a walkout from Central Catholic students protesting the school's handling of a racist incident involving their varsity baseball team. The school claims that a single player used the n-word in a pre-game huddle twice, but some students dispute this, claiming upperclassmen pressured the freshman into chanting the word, and that it was only the latest example of players using the word. The Portland Trail Blazers had a tough weekend, losing twice to the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference Finals. A woman gave birth on a Delta flight near Portland, assisted by a doctor, two nurses, and flight attendants, and both mother and baby are fine. After more than two decades of journalism, BikePortland founder and publisher Jonathan Maus is taking a break from his site and taking time to reflect on his work.