Back home and storied filed a while back on GU's Kraziness in the Kennel. For what it's worth, the Red Team, stocked with newcomers, beat the more veteran Blue 37-33 behind Kevin Pangos' 16 points on 6-of-6 shooting. Here's a link to the article that…
COUGARS We're at beautiful CenturyLink Field – afraid of the news reports, we got here four hours early, and wasn't the first writer in the press box – and, after hearing the horror stories about the drive over, I want to say to all you…
COUGARS It's Saturday morning and I know the Washington State flag is being waved somewhere in sight of a TV camera. It's about all you can count on in this cockamamie world anymore. Heck, WSU's home game today isn't even in the 509 area code.…
The Mead and Ferris football teams secured play-in game berths while Lewis and Clark and Central Valley face off next week to decide a third berth. Here's our Mead/Gonzaga Prep game story. Ferris edged LC in a slugfest. And in North Idaho, Coeur d'Alene sped…
For the third straight game the Spokane Chiefs entered the third period trailing and came up with a win. Friday night they scored three goals in the third period - the second straight game they've done that - to defeat the Saskatoon Blades 5-3. Consider…
About ready to drop the puck at the Arena with the Saskatoon Blades, one of the strongest teams in the Eastern Division, taking on the Spokane Chiefs. The scratches are Hambling, King, Wedman and Nelson for the Chiefs. Mac Engel is in goal. Jared Spurgeon's…
The public gets its first look at the 2011-12 Bulldogs during Saturday's Kraziness in the Kennel. The event is open to the public and seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Here's a schedule of events.
Shocking, I tell you, shocking. Swish Appeal's ranking of the top 100 women's basketball programs ends today with the top 10 and - can you believe this? - Geno is No. 1 and Pat Summitt is No. 2. Wait, I mean, UConn and Tennessee. No.…
COUGARS What an event down in Tucson last night. Note that I didn't write "game." The game itself wasn't great shakes, but the whole aura surrounding it, along with the blowout nature, which gave the ESPN guys plenty of time to talk about Rick Neuheisel's…
A visit with Liam Stewart (son of Rod) and his mother Rachel Hunter reveals nothing more than a passionate hockey player and a dedicated hockey mom. First impression:, good kid with a chance to make an impact during his career with the Spokane Chiefs and…
COUGARS Though the game Saturday is in CenturyLink Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks, it is a Washington State home game, of course. That circumstance – a home game 280 miles away – led to a funny occurrence at the beginning of Thursday's practice. Read…
Click the tab below to see this week's menu. Pictured above is Nathan Weitz of Shadle Park at a cross country meet Wednesday.
Wins matter, but not as much as who they come against, so it's not surprising that after Gonzaga charged to the Elite 8 of the NCAA Tournament the Bulldogs are considered one of the best women's basketball teams in the country. How good? Well, the…
Gonzaga is No. 23 in the ESPN/USA Today coaches' preseason top 25 rankings released this morning. Here's an article and a list of the top 25. North Carolina is No. 1, followed by Kentucky and Ohio State. GU will face No. 15 Xavier and No.…
COUGARS Let's see. Where do we go today, besides a Paul Wulff press conference and to football practice, of course? Well, there's always that seat in front of the computer in the apartment. Seems like a good spot right now. Read on.
COUGARS It rained during practice. And that wasn't the lowlight of the afternoon. Read on.
Idaho has an open date on its schedule this week, but Robb Akey still met with the media to give his bye-week thoughts on the 1-6 Vandals. Read on.
UPDATED Thought I'd re-post this since there's a good conversation going. Can you smell it? State football playoffs are three weeks away in Washington and Idaho (except the Great Northern League). That means two more weeks to settle state playoff berths. Oh, what a final…
Uh oh, Gonzaga isn't ranked as one of the 26th-40th best women's basketball programs in the country. Actually, I'm sure that means the Bulldogs are going to show up tomorrow on 11-25. Could they be a top 10 (which comes out Friday)? When you read…
COUGARS Washington State has a home game this week. But instead of fighting the Pullman traffic – and before you get all cynical and snide about that statement think about this; put an extra 20,000 folks onto streets not designed for it and yes, on…
COUGARS Couldn't get to Paul Wulff's media conferences before we headed out to practice, so now we're playing catch up. We have what he had to say along with a note about an injury to an offensive lineman. Read on.
Eastern Washington was picked to finish in the middle of the pack in the Big Sky Conference and Idaho was voted near the bottom of the Western Athletic Conference in women's basketball polls released on Tuesday. Big Sky coaches picked EWU seventh and the media…
The Idaho Vandals were pegged to finish fifth in the WAC preseason coaches and media men's basketball polls, released this morning. Last year UI went 18-14 and finished third in the conference, despite being voted eighth in the preseason. "I think it kind of proves…
COUGARS Sometimes writing the morning post is about finding stories and passing them along. Sometimes it is more about recalling things I wanted to write about the night before and just plain forgot. And sometimes it's about chasing down items and setting the record straight.…
COUGARS It's been a long day, so we're going to keep this short. But we do have a couple items to share, so read on.
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