I hadn’t been in Sandpoint for more than three years in late August and the topic came up. The dead fish. Shoot, it’s been nearly two decades since it happened. It was 1995 and in my weekly Panhandle Picks – I was covering North Idaho schools exclusively at the time – I tabbed winless Lake City to beat Sandpoint. Well, Sandpoint handled Lake City 29-12. After the game, Sandpoint coach Satini Puailoa, then in his second season in his first stint, asked if I had a sense of humor. I assured him I did and he said I’d receive something special in the mail that week. When I arrived at work the following Monday, the joke was waiting for me. Actually, the priority mail package containing the joke carried such an unpleasant stench that co-workers put the package in the emergency exit stairwell. Upon opening the package I found a dead 12-inch fish, either a perch or blueback, in a sealed plastic bag. It’s one of the strangest things to happen to me in my now 30 years of covering prep sports here/Greg Lee, SR. More here.

Question: What was the worst prediction you ever made?