Back with the final post of the night. My NCAA-issued wireless connection is operating about at the same efficiency as Florida State made shots Friday -- roughly 35.6 percent.So I'll post quickly while it's working. Read on for an unedited notebook.
Gonzaga's impressive first half was enough to stave off Florida State on Friday. Gonzaga (27-6) will face No. 1-seeded and fourth-ranked Syracuse on Sunday at 9:10 a.m. PDT. Syracuse (29-4) cruised over Vermont 79-56 in Friday’s nightcap in front of an Orange-clad crowd of 18,948.Click…
Win and move on. The Gonzaga Bulldogs accomplished that crucial NCAA tournament task Thursday in Buffalo, N.Y., entertaining the 16,000 or so in the HSBC Arena with their first-half built first-round victory. The Zags played superbly in the first half and not so well in…
Picked up a few notes from practices for the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament doubleheader at UW.It includes an adverse reaction to the color purple, a presidential brush-off and Kobe. Keep reading, there are probably too many note to make Saturday's paper.
If you were looking for Jim's halftime post, this will have to suffice – his Internet connection keeps breaking down. Sort of like Florida State's defense early in this one. ... The Zags broke it down with ball movement and unselfish play. They broke out…
Taking a quick break from bouncing balls, here is the unedited advance for the Spokane Chiefs' opening playoff series, which starts tonight against Portland. Also, for your reading enjoy, the story Scott Sepich wrote for The Oregonian, which focuses on Luke Walker, who was a…
Both teams play the underdog role for the North Carolina-Gonzaga battle in the first round of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament. The unedited game story is below.Also have the story on Eastern Washington's loss to Oregon in the WNIT Thursday night.
COUGARS UPDATED: 11:45 A.M. We're in Buffalo with Gonzaga's basketball team – the Zags play Florida State this evening – but we couldn't resist passing this on. The University of Oregon has scheduled an 11:30 a.m. press conference to have an "announcement about leadership at…
About six hours from tip of Gonzaga-Florida State, so we'll get a quick post together while the wireless is still functioning (yes, it's been hit or miss)..Links: Here's the S-R advance, notes and column. The Tallahassee newspaper preview, side bar, and glance at GU. Orlando…
The Spokane Shock are just a couple days into training camp, but they've already made numerous roster moves. A couple of the new additions were found at tryouts in Pullman and Los Angeles. Read more about all of Spokane's moves here.
Rakim Brown, a 6-foot-7, 190-pound small forward from Central High School in Fresno, Calif., has made an oral commitment to play basketball for Eastern Washington University next winter.Brown, who made an official visit to the EWU campus last weekend, averaged 22 points, eight rerebounds and…
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