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Wild Card/Sunday — 2/22/09

Basketball lovers in the HBO blogosphere had to love Saturday. The Coeur d'Alene High girls' basketball team defended its 5A state championship by beating the state's only other unbeaten team, Centennial, 54-50 in overtime. Washington State won for only the second time in UCLA's Pauley Pavillion, 82-81. For good measure, Gonzaga clinched another undisputed league championship by crushing Pepperdine and Idaho even its record at 13-13 overall with its 3rd win in a row. You can see all the game summaries below. Meanwhile, an arrest is near in the Chandra Levy case here. The NAACP is calling for the firing of the New York Post cartoonist who drew the chimp cartoon here. Obama is attempting to cut the deficit in half in four years by raising taxes on the rich and cutting military spending in Iraq and Afghanistan here. And, as I play this Wild Card, you can add me to the growing number of fans who want "Slumdog Millionaire" to win the Oscar for best motion picture tonight. My wife and I saw "Slumdog" Saturday night. Two big thumbs up ...



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.