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Mistake-prone Mastodons no match for Zags
November 21, 2009 in Sports on Page C1
In a duel of slow starts, Gonzaga and Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne traded turnover for turnover. Then Gonzaga stopped turning it over. IPFW didn’t, and the Mastodons kept missing shots.
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GU women cruise past USC
November 19, 2009 in Sports
Senior forward Vivian Frieson helps the Gonzaga women’s basketball team get rolling in a victory over USC at the McCarthey Athletic Center Thursday night.
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Zags stumble late
November 18, 2009 in Sports on Page B1
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Gonzaga led most of the way and turned back numerous Michigan State rallies. But in the closing minutes, the second-ranked Spartans finally caught and passed the …
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Zags fall short at Michigan State
November 17, 2009 in Sports
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Durrell Summers hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with 3:02 left, made two at the line with 5.7 seconds to go and finished with 21 points to help …
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Zags’ schedule softer? Not so you’d notice
November 17, 2009 in Sports on Page B1 The record shows that Mark Few doesn’t lose often, except perhaps in those arguments with himself. A few years ago, he sent his Gonzaga basketball team on a December odyssey … 1
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GU men triumph in basketball opener
November 14, 2009 in Sports
Matt Bouldin scored a game-high 22 points, including four 3-pointers, to lead the host Bulldogs to a 92-74 victory over Mississippi Valley State on Saturday night in the Bulldogs’ regular-season …
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Can’t leash this Bulldog
November 13, 2009 in Sports on Page B1 Mike Goodson Jr., Jeremy Pargo, Wayne Chism, Western Kentucky’s basketball team … There were many more before and surely many more to come. That’s an incomplete, but burgeoning list of …
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Zags roll past Alberta
November 2, 2009 in Sports Gonzaga sophomore center Robert Sacre’s point guard in high school was on the opposing team. One of Sacre’s coaches in Canada, Greg Francis, was calling plays on the opposite bench. …
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Sports in brief: Zags open with Alberta
November 2, 2009 in Sports on Page B1 Basketball: Gonzaga entertains the University of Alberta in a men’s basketball exhibition game tonight at 6 at the McCarthey Athletic Center. Alberta coach Greg Francis served as head coach of …
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GU, WSU to host NCAA women’s tournament games
October 29, 2009 in News, Sports The NCAA Women’s Basketball Committee has selected Gonzaga to host the first two rounds of the 2011 tournament at McCarthey Athletic Center with the regional finals the next weekend at … 2
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Throng shows up to watch new-look Zags
October 25, 2009 in Sports on Page C4 Freshman forward Elias Harris became a big fan of Gonzaga’s crowd Saturday night. “Blew me away completely,” the German native said of a standing-room-only gathering of 6,000-plus that filled the …
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Now out of stripes, Libbey reshaping WCC officiating
October 25, 2009 in Sports on Page C1
So intent were the 6,000-plus Gonzaga congregants on identifying and bonding with all the new Zags – Is that Manny? Which one is Dower? – that few noticed their favorite …
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Huskies’ offer makes perfect sense to Huskies
October 23, 2009 in Sports on Page B1
Blame Jim Sterk. He won’t be surprised, since he gets blamed for almost everything else. It was Washington State’s athletic director who first dipped his toe into the icy waters …
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UW proposes renewing series; GU says hold on
October 22, 2009 in Sports on Page B1 A University of Washington proposal to resume the men’s basketball series with Gonzaga was met with a chilly reception from the Bulldogs. The Huskies proposed a three-game series, beginning next … 1
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Interviews highlight Zags DVD
October 20, 2009 in Sports on Page B1
“After seven years as a professional, you realize it’s never like that again.” – Matt Santangelo
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Cougs go on display
October 16, 2009 in Sports on Page B1
PULLMAN – It’s quite obvious things are different around the Washington State University men’s basketball program. Head coach Tony Bennett is gone to Virginia after three winning seasons, replaced by …
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Kong finally at GU
September 18, 2009 in Sports on Page B1
Bol Kong is finally a Zag. Kong, a Sudanese native who has lived in Canada since the age of 7, is enrolled for classes at Gonzaga after recently obtaining Canadian …
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Stockton, Sloan formed lasting relationship
September 12, 2009 in Sports on Page C1
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – For 18 years, John Stockton was Johnny Unitas to Karl Malone’s Raymond Berry – that is, when they weren’t Martin and Lewis, Ben and Jerry or Yin …
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John Blanchette: A Journey’s end
September 10, 2009 in Sports on Page B2 Sending a basketball, with a pass delivered one-handed and from waist-high, 60 feet over the head and into the hands of a streaking Karl Malone … the nuns next door …
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Gonzaga’s Dench returns to place he helped put on map
August 29, 2009 in Sports on Page C1
Gonzaga students are making their way back to campus this weekend, including the largest and most intriguing incoming class of basketball players in the program’s recent history. Meanwhile, the basketball …
