Portland State's Connor Kavanaugh connected with Justin Monahan on an eight-yard scoring pass from eight yards out with only two second left in the second quarter to give visiting Portland State a 22-20 halftime lead over Eastern Washington in Saturday's Big Sky Conference matchup at…
Gonzaga will go into the regular season without junior forward Guy Landry Edi. He's been ruled ineligible by the NCAA for eight games, GU officials confirmed Saturday. More below in a short article that will run in Sunday's S-R.
COUGARS So I'm sitting here in the open-air press box at Autzen – note to my replacement: Always bring one more coat to a game here than you think you need – wondering what to write. Then it hit me. Read on.
COUGARS There are a few-more-than-usual links to pass along this morning, mainly due to the Pac-12 basketball media day in Los Angeles. And, of course, there is the full compliment of conference football games, headlined by today's action here in Eugene. Read on.
Gonzaga thumped Carroll College 95-51 Friday in an exhibition game witnessed by 6,000 at the McCarthey Athletic Center. The Zags played everyone who was available except Kelly Olynyk, who sat out. He went through a few drills earlier Friday as he returns from the concussion…
Good evening from the McCarthey Athletic Center. Here are tonight's starters, just announced: Sacre, Harris, Bell Jr., Stockton and Carter. Head over to twitter.com/SRjimm for in-game updates.
A couple of hockey items I missed because I spent the previous two days taking a class. * Spokane Chiefs defenseman Brenden Kichton was named to the WHL team for one game of the Subway Serires with Russia next month. * Liam Stewart made the…
Mead locked up at least a share of the Greater Spokane League football title, Central Valley secured the final 4A state berth and Coeur d'Alene kept rolling along, claiming the 5A Inland Empire League championship. Here's our story about Mead and CV and here's our…
COUGARS • UPDATED: NOON We're headed off to Eugene today, but before we get on the road, we have to put together our morning post, don't we? Read on. • UPDATE: We're not at the Pac-12 media day today, but we wanted to pass along…
OK, this is a little different -- blogging from the parking lot at the MAC. I've got about five minutes before I go interview Rob Sacre for the cover story of the S-R's special college basketball section that will run in about 10 days. So,…
COUGARS Another day, another morning post. The monotony of it all gets to me after a while. But all it takes to break the spell is a peek outside. The sun is shining, there's a bit of sparkling frost on the ground, and the view…
The Spokane Chiefs scored early and often, rolling to a 6-1 win over the Victoria Royals in a Western Hockey League game Wednesday night, completing a perfect seven game homestand. However, it was the first time since that first game the Chiefs scored first and…
UPDATED We've reached the final week of the regular season in Greater Spokane League and Inland Empire League football. In 4A, Mead and Ferris have secured play-in game berths with Lewis and Clark and Central Valley squaring off to decide another berth. In 3A, University…
COUGARS You would think, with 66 days until we move into the next phase of our life, things would be settling down. You know, Laz-E-Boy easy. But no. Nothing is ever that simple, especially around Washington State University. The school must have an exceptional drama…
COUGARS It turns out Jeff Tuel was more banged up than previously revealed. His left clavicle is not fractured again – it's real sore though – but his right calf is pretty beat up. Read on.
Robb Akey is looking for something positive to ignite Idaho's woebegone offense. It hasn't happened yet, but the Vandals coach is optimistic of course. As he said Monday after the Vandals' bye week, "We’re as cold as the damn ice cubes in a freezer the…
COUGARS Jeff Tuel was not at practice Monday night as he was undergoing an examination of his injured left shoulder and a sore right calf. Read on for more from Washington State's short practice.
COUGARS We tweeted the news last night (@vinceg55) about Jeff Tuel's injury and status for this week's game with Oregon – it's not good – but we have some more news on the link, so read on.
COUGARS • UPDATED: 10:30 A.M. OK, we've taken a bit more time, have tooled around the Web to gather Pac-12 information – any second thoughts Utah? – and pulled together some notes and quotes about last night. Read on.
COUGARS Really, that wasn't all that hard to explain. "What happened today is they outplayed us today," said linebacker Sekope Kaufusi. "Records don't matter, as you could clearly see tonight. Whoever comes out that day and plays the best, wins. Bottom line is, Oregon State…
Spokane fell behind for the fifth straight game but this time it didn’t take a last minute rally for the Chiefs to run their winning streak to six. The Chiefs, after allowing Everett the first two goals, stormed back to defeat the Silvertips 3-2, for…
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