The Spokane Chiefs used a dominating first period - a 22-5 shot advantage, goals by Brenden Kichton, Steve Kuhn and Anthony Bardaro - to jump start a 4-2 win over the Everett Silvertips at the Arena Tuesday night. It was the first of a five-game…
The Vandals await the winner of tomorrow's San Jose State-Hawaii game to see who their opponent will be in the quarterfinals of the WAC tournament. Idaho is set to meet the winner on Thursday at noon on ESPNU. For now, here's a link to my…
Only 6-foot tall, Yinka Olorunnife (UI/Spencer Ferrin photo) is a great rebounder, which her recent records prove. She is also traveled an interesting path to get to Idaho and into the record books. She is the subject of this week's women's basketball notebook. ... Gonzaga…
I figured those of you who read this women's basketball blog were up on the news of yesterday, Gonzaga's shocking upset to win the WCC Tournament and senior guard Courtney Vandersloot someone winning a national award ... OK, maybe we weren't completely sure Vandersloot would…
I'm linking to John Blanchette's column last week about the WIAA's new state basketball tournament format. I was in Tacoma when this was published, and I was in a fog fighting a cold and severe cough and didn't see this posted on our website. This…
Good morning from Las Vegas. One tourney down (WCC), one to go (WAC). We've got a ton of reading material from GU's men's and women's sweeps of Saint Mary's in the WCC title games. Ladies first: Here's my game story, Chris Anderson's photos and a…
The only Tuesday night home game of the season awaits the Spokane Chiefs, which probably means there will be a sparse crowd on hand to give Tyler Johnson a hand for his big news, signing with the Tampa Bay Lightning over the weekend. Everett will…
COUGARS We're in SeaTac watching the departure board diligently as our flight to Los Angeles has already changed gate and time more than once. But while we have a few minutes, we're trying to get our post finished. ... Sorry, didn't get it done. Most…
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