All quiet on the hoops front
It wasn’t by design, but a force of nature, that put basketball on vacation, so it’s time to heat up the stove. No games Tuesday, maybe no games tomorrow. What’s a fan to do?
It wasn’t by design, but a force of nature, that put basketball on vacation, so it’s time to heat up the stove. No games Tuesday, maybe no games tomorrow. What’s a fan to do?
The Coeur d'Alene and Lake City boys basketball teams face off Thursday - weather permitting of course.Click the tab below to see a blog-only advance on the game.
ORIGINALLY POSTED MONDAYUPDATED Wednesday, 1:30 p.m.Click the tab below to see some notes on North Idaho girls and boys basketball.The 4A Region I girls tournament opener that was postponed until Wednesday - Moscow at Sandpoint - has been postponed one more night to Thursday because…
COUGARS • UPDATED: 12:40 P.M.The bad news is beginning to pile up for new football coach Paul Wullf. Though there have been a multitude of verbal commitments for next year, a couple of the current defensive players – both starters at times last season –…
The only thing falling faster than the snow is the high school sporting events in the area.We have tried to verify cancelled or postponed events in the area. Click here for the complete list of sporting events.
Click on extended entry below for our day-after post on the Gonzaga-Portland game and a roundup of other WCC games from Monday.
Read on below for my unedited Gonzaga-Portland game story and come back tomorrow morning for our day-after post. Gonzaga (16-5, 5-0 WCC)is alone in first place after San Diego upset visiting Saint Mary's 63-55 tonight. The Toreros and Saint Mary's are both 4-1. More here…
Gonzaga's David Pendergraft and Josh Heytvelt combined for 27 points as the Bulldogs took a 39-22 halftime lead against Portland on Monday night.The Zags scored 11 of the last 13 points to close the half, seven of those coming from Pendergraft.Portland's Nik Raivio, younger brother…
They’re back on top.The Spokane Chiefs, whose nine-week reign atop the Western Hockey League writer’s poll ended last week, collected 11 of 17 first-place votes and 367 total points to regain the top ranking in the poll released Monday by the Western Major Junior Hockey…
University of Idaho junior guard Mike Hall has been named the Western Athletic Conference men's basketball player of the week for Jan. 21-27.
COUGARS • UPDATED: 10:15 A.M.We don't shovel the snow on the deck off our bedroom. It's a summer place to sit, not a winter. So when I got home from Phoenix yesterday and saw the 14 inches of snow on that deck – it was…
Click below for an unedited preview of the GU-Portland game that will run in Monday's S-R.Also, here's John Blanchette's column on ex-Zag Richie Frahm and his journeyman career.
Back with our day-after Memphis post (it's a long one) and links of interest. We should have GU-Portland preview up later today.Read on below.
Visiting Hawaii knocked off the Idaho men's basketball team Saturday, 58-53.Click the tab below to read my unedited game story.
Ouch!I'm at the Arena covering a Spokane Chiefs hockey game and wasn't able to keep tabs on Eastern's men's basketball team on the radio.I did learn from an internet report, however, that the Eagles blew a 44-27 halftime lead and fell to Montana State 74-69…
It was quite a nailbiter at the end, but the Cougars pulled out a 56-55 victory against No. 24 Arizona State. Keep reading for my quick gamer.
COUGARSOne of the fun things to watch a couple of hours before game time us how different teams approach the warm-up ritual.For example, ASU's players had some time before the assistant coaches stepped on the court. They used the minutes to perfect their 38-footers. Read…
Gonzaga made repeated runs at Memphis, but couldn't overcome slow starts in each half and fell 81-73 to the top-ranked Tigers at the FedExForum on Saturday.Gonzaga trailed by three at half and Memphis ran off nine of the first 11 points of the second half.…
COUGARSOne team will win and stay in second place. Another will lose and drop into what will probably be a logjam for third. Such is the story of today's Arizona State vs. Washington State game in Phoenix.We'll be there. We'll have another post from the…
Click the tab below to read my unedited game story. The Post Falls girls earned the second seed to the 5A Region I tournament with a win over Lake City on Friday.
Sorry I was tardy in posting Mike Saunders' story about the Post Falls girls knocking off Coeur d'Alene on Thursday. Click here to read the story.To some sophomoric blog posters: I warned folks in a previous post dominated by chatter about high school baseball coaches…
Kirk Earlywine's first visit to Missoula, Mont., as the head coach of Eastern Washington's men's basketball team turned out to be a real disaster.
Click the tab below to read my unedited game story and assorted notes.
The Idaho men's basketball team, behind the record shooting of junior guard Mike Hall, earned their second Western Athletic Conference win in the same season under coach George Pfeifer, topping visiting San Jose State 74-63.Hall made 9 of 10 3-point attempts, breaking the previous record…
COUGARSYou saw it. If you didn't, well, count your blessings if you're a Cougar fan. Now is your chance to comment on WSU's 76-64 loss at Arizona. We'll be back later with our game story.
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