Canzano judges everyone by whether they obey his conservative religion.
Sex: Patterson told his maid to suck his cock. Instead of running out of the house, she did it, waited a week, then her friends persuaded her to complain. She claimed she was too surprised to resist. He could have lied his way out in court, but was passive about it, and more than paid the penalty with a shortened career and millions lost. Zach consorted with loudmouthed black friends and maybe a whore or two. Aldridge had babies by a girlfriend whom he never moved from Texas, prompting Canzano's praise for Aldridge living only a hundred miles from her now, instead of a thousand miles away in Portland. The difference among those players? Aldridge is a quiet stutterer who says "You know" a lot and doesn't meet your gaze directly (contact-wearers know about looking down all the time). The other two were more confident black men.
Booze and drugs: Canzano persecuted Oden for having booze with 3-4 friends at his tiny home parties, while he was unable to play for many months at a time. Canzano constantly mentioned rumors of smelling marijuana on someone's breath, yellow Hummer jokes, etc.
Canzano's right-wing cultural revolution will never succeed. It's against the will of the people. Just as he says we should blame Blazer management, not Aldridge, let's extend similar responsibility to the Oregonian. Which editors have kept Canzano in power for so many years? In any other paper, top writers don't last this long. They get promoted, go private to write a book, or move on to bigger periodicals. But no other paper wants this hack. So maybe we should extend our dislike of Canzano to hating his managers at the Oregonian, whose purpose is to enable his and their ideology.