PREPSHere's an interesting story about Eisenhower High basketball coach Pat Fitterer, who will be inducted in the state basketball Hall of Fame this summer.The story details Fitterer's career now that he has retired as a teacher at Ike and makes it sound like he won't…
INDIANSTwenty-five years ago the Spokane Indians dropped from the highest level of baseball's minor leagues (AAA) to near the lowest (short-season A).But the Indians are still Spokane's team, and short seasons or not, they've built some impressive memories over the past 25 years.John Blanchette turns…
COUGARS, COLLEGE BASEBALL, HUSKIESCraig Smith of the Seattle Times has a fun story in today's paper. He rated the year as a contest between the Cougars and UW. The upshot: UW won the year in sports 11-6-1. But WSU fans can still hang their hats…
MARINERSWhat started out so promising – 5-0 to open the 10-game road trip – is now almost .500. The M's loss Friday was their third consecutive defeat on this trip, but more importantly, it happened in large part because Felix Hernandez was, well, ineffective.Which is…
SHOCKAs a veteran of prep coverage in the Spokane area, you don't have to tell me about the rivalry between Spokane's schools and those from the Tri-Cities.Actually, it isn't all that intense. The teams meet once a year with a state berth on the line,…
COLLEGE BASEBALLOMAHA - They were standing in the traffic median at the airport.The younger man was wearing a Cougar T-shirt and a WSU hat. The older man a College World Series T-shirt. They towed their bags and waited for a hotel shuttle.The younger man was…
MARINERSIs the bullpen finally starting to show the wear and tear we expected? Or was it just one game?Despite being handcuffed all game by Jason Marquis and the Cubs, the M's still led 4-3 going into the bottom of the eighth. But Chicago scored twice,…
SHOCKAll Antwone Savage has to do is look at the Arena Football League statistics to see an example of what his future may hold.Near the top of the league's receiving stats is the name Charles Frederick, Savage's teammate last season with the Spokane Shock.Frederick, playing…
COLLEGE BASEBALLSomeone who shall remain anonymous, but who works at the newspaper, once told me Omaha is the Spokane of the Midwest.If Spokane had 75 percent humidity. And an NCAA championship every year.Though I will say I saw a lot of similarities today like …•…
EAGLES, INDIANS, HOOPFEST, COLLEGE BASKETBALL • UPDATED: 2:15 P.M.Eastern Washington may – or may not – name a new basketball coach today. If you're interested, check Dave Trimmer's blog regularly for updates.UPDATE: Dave has some info on his blog and in this story, including the…
COLLEGE BASEBALLIt's funny how nice some people can be, people you've never met except through the words typed here or in the paper.Specifically I'm talking about the people who've sent me emails concerning my trip tomorrow to Omaha.Us sports fans – and I'm including myself…
MORNING NEWSOther stuff worth reading today …• Ferris High and UW graduate Alex Prugh will compete in the U.S. Open starting Thursday, but his trip to the historic Oakmont Country Club is already an eye-opener. Prugh is also mentioned in this Boston Globe story, though…
EAGLESThe interviews are over, the four finalists poked, prodded and questioned. Which one will be picked as Eastern Washington's latest mens' basketball coach?The smart money is on Kirk Earlywine, an assistant at North Carolina-Wilmington, who has connections with EWU interim athletic director Michael Westfall.But Westfall…
MORNING NEWSThere are a couple of other items floating out there I wanted to draw your attention to, so here they are …• I have been remiss lately with Seahawks' links, possibly because it seems more like baseball weather than football. Or because I was…
COUGARS, VANDALSSorry, but I couldn't find a link out of Australia for WSU's 85-70 win Monday over the Southern Districts Spartans, which raised the Cougs' record to 3-2 on the Down Under basketball tour. However we do have some news.It was the usual suspects leading…
COUGARS, EAGLES, COLLEGE SPORTSIt seems like the level of competition varies for the Cougs on their Down Under tour, but their most recent contest was against about the best the continent could offer.The Sydney Kings are the three-time defending champions of Australia's professional league but…
MORNING NEWSThere is kind of an eclectic collection of local subjects covered in today's Spokesman-Review, ranging from the Shock's big comeback win (see link in post below) to Steve Bergum's engaging feature on former GU star J.P. Batista, bask in Spokane after a season playing…
MARINERSRaul Ibanez hit, what, 90-plus home runs last year (it was actually 33)? But, going into Friday's game in Petco Park – a place where hardly anyone hits homers – Ibanez had one (that's 1) this injury-slowed season.So what does he do? Of course he…
EAGLESDave Trimmer reports on his blog Eastern picked its five basketball coaching finalists and that quickly became four. Former San Diego coach Brad Holland pulled out after talking with interim athletic director Michael Westfall. Check Dave's blog for more.
COUGARSAs we alluded to earlier today, the Cougs have hired a new football assistant, David Walkosky, to take Ken Greene's place as cornerbacks' coach.Walkosky comes to Washington State from the University of Toledo where he was the secondary coach and special teams coordinator. He will…
MARINERSA rare off day is followed by a three-game series in San Diego, where the Padres are nothing if not red hot. Last night they completed a three-game sweep of the Dodgers by scoring five runs in the bottom of the ninth inning and winning…
EAGLES, MARINERS, BULLDOGSEastern seems to be moving closer to hiring a basketball coach. At least the pool of candidates seems to be shrinking. Check Dave Trimmer's blog for more.•••••••••••• The Mariners went out of the country for their first draft pick in the entry draft.…
COLLEGES, PREPSThanks to alert readers, we have a link to a release about Washington State's first game on the Down Under tour. The Cougars won in New Zealand behind the 20 points of Derrick Low. It's now on to Australia.• As Dave Trimmer first reported…
COUGARS, EVENING NEWSWe had a score of the Cougars' first game on the Down Under tour posted here, but we haven't been able to verify it. All our searches for a box or game story have gone for naught, with the Auckland, New Zealand newspaper…
MARINERSI am sitting in an awful motel room on Mercer Island, one I wouldn't recommend to a Giants fan, and trying to catch up on the news.Actually, I'm trying to see if the game stories caught the excitement that was running through the stands last…
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