Carter Proft scored twice and Eric Williams made 20 saves for his fourth shutout of the season Friday night as the Spokane Chiefs clinched the No. 4 seed to Western Hockey League's Western Conference playoffs with a 6-0 win over the Tri-City Americans at the…
Carter Proft, named earlier in the night as the Chiefs' Players Player of the Year, scored twice in the second period Friday to increase Spokane's lead to 3-0 over the Tri-City Americans. Proft registered his first multigoal game of the season. He has 11 goals…
Alessio Bertaggia's 29th goal of the season, on a power play at 12:44, has given the Spokane Chiefs a 1-0 lead over the Tri-City Americans after one period in the Chiefs' final home game of the regular season. Beraggia's goal came 12 seconds after Spokane's…
The Spokane Chiefs and Tri-City Americans already know one another well, but starting tonight the Western Hockey League archrivals will be nearly inseparable for the next couple of weeks. The Chiefs and Americans will play one another six times in the next 14 days --…
Eastern Washington came roaring back to force overtime on Friday afternoon, but the Eagles fell in overtime to Northern Colorado at the Big Sky Conference tournament semifinal in Missoula. Read Colter Nuanez's story:
Close games are nothing new to Idaho's basketball team, which edged Utah State 84-82 on Friday afternoon in Las Vegas to advance to Saturday's championship game of the WAC tournament. Read Christian Caple's story:
A GRIP ON SPORTS March is beginning to enter its lamb phase, which means it's about time for college basketball fans to turn into bracket lions. Shoot, that sounded better in my head. Read on.
COUGARS FROM LAS VEGAS -- There are no Washington State teams playing here anymore, though we still had a busy day yesterday at the WAC and Pac-12 tournaments. Read on for links and such from a crazy day.
Spokane's Tyler Johnson, who had a brilliant four-year career with the Spokane Chiefs, made his NHL debut Thursday night for the Tampa Bay Lightning in a 2-0 loss to the New York Islanders. Johnson was on the ice for more than 11 minutes and said…
The Vandals had come back twice this season versus New Mexico State to set up wild finishes. But they couldn't make the same late-game charge this afternoon in the quarterfinals of the WAC tournament. Sixth-seeded UI fell 65-49 to finish the year 12-18. In the…
It's official: Kent Leiss (pictured above) will not return as boys basketball coach at Coeur d'Alene. The on-again, off-again saga that began in late January concluded Thursday when Leiss was told by Principal Warren Olson and athletic director Todd Gilkey in a 1-hour meeting that…
Post Falls' Dani Failor (pictured in the middle above) has been named Gatorade player of year in Idaho. See story below.
A GRIP ON SPORTS No, it's too warm to be Christmas. But it feels like it a bit around here. The new Mariners' commercials are out. Read on.
Stephen Madison and the other veterans for Idaho know what the Orleans Arena is like early on the first real day of the WAC tournament: lots of empty seats, quiet, kind of surreal in such a big venue. "You’ve got to bring your own energy,…
COUGARS FROM LAS VEGAS -- Washington State's season is over after it lost a 64-62 heartbreaker to Washington last night. It was a late one, so we don't have quite as much as usual to pass along. But we do have quite a bit. Read…
COUGARS FROM LAS VEGAS -- It's extremely late, but we do have our tale of the tape to pass along. Read on.
Lexie Nelson's 18 points led five Eastern Washington players in double figures on Wednesday as the third-seeded Eagles opened the Big Sky Conference tournament in Missoula with a win over No. 6 Montana State. EWU will play second-seeded Northern Colorado on Friday morning in the…
COUGARS FROM LAS VEGAS -- Utah leads USC by 13 points with about eight minutes left as I'm writing this, so it won't be long until WSU and Washington get going in the 8:30 game. Of course, those 8:30 games have a way of turning…
Krissy Karr's buzzer-beating shot gave third-seeded Idaho a 57-55 win over No. 6 San Jose State in a Western Athletic Conference tournament opener in Las Vegas. The Vandals will play second-seeded Utah State in Friday's semifinals. Read Christian Caple's story
A GRIP ON SPORTS Tuesday was sort of the eye of the hurricane in Las Vegas. The WCC – and the nation's No. 1 team – had just blown through Monday night. Today the Pac-12 tourney starts pelting the town. All that happened in the…
COUGARS FROM LAS VEGAS -- The seemingly non-stop conference tournament tour of Las Vegas continues today when the Pac-12 tournament begins at the MGM Grand. We'll be there a little later on -- swinging over to the Orleans this morning to cover the Idaho women…
The Spokane Chiefs defeated Prince George 6-4 on Tuesday night despite a third-period outburst by the Cougars that put Spokane back on its heels. Spokane now leads Tri-City by two points in the chase for fourth place and home-ice advantage in the playoffs. Read story…
S-R photojournalist Jesse Tinsley covered the Chiefs win against Prince George. Check out a big picture gallery of his photos.
The Spokane Chiefs built a 5-0 lead and defeated the Prince George Cougars 6-4 in Western Hockey League play at the Arena on Tuesday night. Spokane improved to 86 points and took over fourth place alone in the Western Conference with Tri-City's loss to Seattle.…
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