COUGARS The Cougars' season ended with a whimper, at least in the first half. They tried to bang their way back after halftime, but once again the hole they decided to dig was too deep to crawl all the way out of. Not with Patty…
It was, after all, Patty Mills' day. Even if he is from Australia, not Ireland, and wears the blue of St. Mary's. The Gaels' 6-foot guard, in only his fourth game back from a broken wrist that cost him five weeks – and may have…
COUGARS Let's see. I've got 10 second-chance points for St. Mary's off seven offensive rebounds. Then there are the 11 points the Gaels have scored in transition. How about the 12 WSU turnovers? Add in the 17 points – and one Academy Award-winning flop –…
It's been a long time -- 19 years to be exact -- since Idaho could relish any sort of postseason atmosphere. But that will change Wednesday night inside tiny Memorial Gym. The Vandals will take on Drake in the CollegeInsider.com tournament, and it should be…
COUGARS Just a quick pregame post tonight. As you might know, Davidson, behind Stephen Curry's 32 points, went to South Carolina and won, 70-63 tonight. If the Cougars win, our understanding is they would play Monday night at Davidson with, my guess is, a 4…
The six-hour drive to Portland is done and so is my feature on Josh Heytvelt. I'm going to grab some food, but you can read the unedited version of the article that will run in Wednesday's S-R below.
A lot of great athletes have passed before my eyes over the past five decades, but one of the more compelling was David Sanders, who 24 years ago set a single season Greater Spokane League scoring record - before the advent of the 3-point arc…
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Winter (sports) is over. I can officially now proclaim it spring. Hopefully the weather takes heed. And quite a winter it was. My prep notebook in Tuesday's Spokesman-Review wraps things up.In part it was look ahead, with a new football coach, Brian Gardner, chosen at…
Got busy with other stuff Monday and forgot to post the latest rankings. Gonzaga moved up to 10th in the A.P. poll. I couldn't remember so I looked up where the Zags were ranked in the preseason poll. Yep, 10th. Interesting to look back at…
COUGARS With the NCAA Tournament hype in full blow-up mode – if WSU was in the tournament, we'd be joining in, I'm sure – there is little room left for the stepchild, the NIT. But we did find a couple things to pass on to…
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