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Mead senior Dominick Corley chose to continue his athletic career at Southern California for a simple but impressive reason – Corley believes USC can get him to his dream of being an Olympian.

PULLMAN – Washington State wide receiver Tsion Nunnally is on the move.

PULLMAN – Oscar Cluff has found a third college home.

PULLMAN – Washington State’s baseball and women’s swimming teams have a conference home, at least temporarily.

Spokane Chiefs standout forward Berkly Catton has been named the U.S. Division nominee for both the Western Hockey League's Four Broncos Memorial Trophy and Daryl K. Seaman Memorial Trophy awards, the team announced at the start of the month.

Gonzaga has been in the top 10 in a bunch of way-too-early college basketball preseason polls so it makes sense the Bulldogs would be projected as a high seed. GU checked in as a two seed in the West Region in ESPN’s Joe Lunardi’s first bracket projection,

A GRIP ON SPORTS • It was just another Monday in April. Tax Day, actually. Until it morphed into something more. Much more in that little niche of America known as the Inland Northwest. Somehow yesterday transformed into a celebration of college hoops.

SEATTLE – Scott Servais stood in his familiar position on the top step of the Mariners dugout. With his hands jammed into the pockets of his heavy coat on a chilly Monday night made tolerable with the roof of T-Mobile Park closed, the terse expression of disappointment he’d worn for most of this season was gone.

The success of the Gonzaga women’s basketball team was on display again Monday.

NEW YORK – NCAA championship game. “Saturday Night Live.” “Today” show.

With Dan Monson’s hiring at Eastern Washington, the Inland Northwest basketball environment further closed into a flat circle, a hoop, perhaps, with common elements woven and connected like nylon netting.

At first, Dan Monson misinterpreted the question.

In his first official appearance as Eastern Washington’s head men’s basketball coach, Dan Monson did plenty of reminiscing.

The Mariners' first hit mercifully arrived in the fourth inning Sunday, when Mitch Haniger chopped at a 91-mph sinker and dented it into the dirt. The ball promptly dribbled and died, while Haniger hustled out an infield single. Exit velocity: 68.6 mph. Distance in the air: 1 foot. Launch angle: minus-62 degrees. Haniger's hit was negated by a Jorge Polanco strikeout and an ...

A GRIP ON SPORTS • Every decade or so a golfer comes along, ascends to the top of the golfing universe, wins a lot, gathers in a few major titles and excites absolutely … no one? OK, a few folks. But not the masses. Is Scottie Scheffler filling that role in the 2020s?

Scottie Scheffler is not normal, not in his golf or his demeanor. It’s part of what makes him so damn dangerous for who knows how long: The release doesn’t come until the clock has been punched. This is a worker doing work. Why emote before it’s over?

AUGUSTA, Ga. – On the 18th green on the final day of this Masters, Scottie Scheffler, so steady and so determined, finally allowed himself a smile, lifting both hands into the air and bellowing toward the sky. It was bottled-up relief and excitement, for sure, but for the sports world, it served as an unmistakable pronouncement: Golf has a transcendent champion on its hands, the kind of talent who feels miles ahead of anyone else.