COUGARS • UPDATED: 8:35 P.M.We're back with an afternoon post, this one featuring a feature story about former strength and conditioning coach Rob Oviatt, who left WSU last week after eight years of building Cougar athletes.Read on for the unedited version of the story that…
The defending Memorial Cup champion Spokane Chiefs will announce Hardy Sauter as their new head coach tomorrow, The Spokesman-Review learned Thursday.More on Sauter below. Also, the Western Hockey League has released its schedule for the 2008-09 regular season. Here's the link.
COUGARSCredit Greg Trent with an assist. No, not like the stat you get on tackles, though the four-year starting middle linebacker always gets a lot of those. Wednesday afternoon, the former captain – read on for a note about that – assisted the WSU coaching…
Eastern Washington opens football practice on Friday under the weight of great expectations.You can read an unedited version of the advance story that will appear in Thursday's S-R -- along with a story on the apparently season-ending knee injury suffered recently by senior defensive tackle…
The Spokane Chiefs traded defenseman Jace Coyle to the Medicine Hat Tigers for a fifth round selection in the 2009 WHL Bantam draft and third round selection in 2010.“It is real tough moving a player of Jace’s caliber but at the same time we have…
COUGARSFootball practice gets going in about an hour, so we'll peruse the net and give you the best of what's out there following yesterday's first day. And, as we always strive to do, we have a couple surprise links.
The University of Idaho football team began fall practice Tuesday.Click the tab below to read an unedited notebook from practice.
COUGARSThe first day is over and my left leg looks a little like a peppermint candy cane. I must have missed spots with the sunscreen. Anyhow, a couple of answers and then the unedited version of my Wednesday story and practice summary are on the…
Former Spokane Shock defensive back Rob Keefe re-signed with the ArenaBowl Philadelphia Soul of the AFL this week. Here's the press release.Also Shock veteran receiver Raul Vijil, who played on Spokane's 2006 ArenaCup championship team with Keefe, earned Catch of the Week honors after making…
COUGARSThere's not a whole lot of links available for Cougar news, but we have one or two. Plus, a couple of other interesting places for you to go. Read on.
The conference office has issued the men's basketball summer prospectus. Here's a link.Some points of interest: Page 3 (percentage of teams in a conference to make NCAAs; percentage of scoring/rebounding returning for GU, San Diego and Saint Mary's). However, no schedules are listed for those…
Caught up last week with ex-Zag Zach Gourde, who leaves Tuesday for his sixth season of pro basketball in France.Gourde was entertaining, as always. See for yourself below in extended entry for a cut-and-paste version of an unedited article that will run (with pictures) in…
The Central Valley Coyotes will travel to Spokane to take on the Shock in the National Conference semifinals of the arenafootball2 playoffs on Saturday at the Arena. The fifth-seeded Coyotes scored an upset on Sunday when they upended Chris Siegfried and the host Arkansas Twisters…
Though they weren't happy with their first-half performance, the Spokane Shock beat the Austin Wranglers 42-14 on Saturday. Here's what coach Adam Shackleford, receiver Raul Vijil and quarterback Nick Davila had to say after the game, along with some highlights.Get the Flash Player to see…
As I promised earlier this morning, here is the unedited version of the story that will run in tomorrow's S-R. You know the drill; just click the link.
It’s the end of an era. Bill Peters is gone, and with less than three weeks until training camp begins for the Spokane Chiefs, it’s time to move forward – quickly. The search for the defending Western Hockey League and Memorial Cup champion Chiefs’ next…
Someone on one of this summer’s baseball posts suggested it’s time to start talking about high school (make that Greater Spokane League) football.The season begins with practices and two-a-days in “just” 20 days – enough time for me to get out of here for a…
Around town, the name Raul Vijil is a familiar one. He's the popular Spokane Shock receiver - the face of the franchise. He's playing for someone very close to his heart these days - his niece Francis Rose Vijil Murguia, whose heart stopped beating on…
Gonzaga will make at least eight appearances on the ESPN family of networks during the conference season, according to the schedule released by the WCC on Thursday. As expected the WCC has moved to a Thursday-Saturday format after playing Saturday-Monday since 2005. Game times weren't…
Boy, that was an interesting discussion we had the past couple days. The depth of the animosity is amazing. Then again, I have a sister who graduated from UCLA and her feelings about USC, well don't get her started. Some of the T-shirts she used…
Former Post Falls High football standout Rollin Putzier, who has a Super Bowl ring from his days with the San Francisco 49ers, is recovering from a gunshot wound to the stomach in Huntsville, Ala.Here's a link to a story in the Huntsville Times.
Over 128 Million Summer Olympics Fans in the U.S. are gearing up for the torch lighting in Beijing on August 8. As the world focuses its attention to the summer games, sports fan research firm Scarborough Sports Marketing reveals that people in Denver, CO and…
Everyone seemed to have a little fun with Monday's question, so I thought I would ask another today. Read on.
Not much to link this morning but that doesn't mean we don't have questions – and an answer.
I know football season is about to get started, but there are a couple basketball links worth passing on this Sunday morning.
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