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Widely considered to be a late first- or early second-round pick, former Gonzaga guard and Wake Forest standout Hunter Sallis announced plans to enter the NBA draft on Sunday while maintaining his college eligibility.

It is early April, and unsurprisingly, Eric Sanders has lost his voice.

A GRIP ON SPORTS • It’s excruciating to be a sports fan sometimes. Life interrupts and you miss the event everyone is talking about. Or you do get to watch and, after the few invested hours are over, you wish you hadn’t. But we soldier on, hoping the next time will be better.

As 15-year-old Raenah Smith looked around at the thousands of women and girls filling the Podium in Spokane, all there to wrestle in the U.S. Marine Corps Women’s National Championships, she marveled at how the sport has given her trailblazing female role models in a male-dominated sport.

From staff reports

SEATTLE – Scoring one run isn’t going to lead to wins.

DALLAS — Eleven months since their prior season ended here in a Game 7 playoff heartbreaker, the Kraken are winding down another campaign under far different circumstances of disappointment.

There wasn’t an encore.

AUGUSTA, Ga. – The way Scottie Scheffler had played golf this week – shoot, the way he has played it for the better part of three years – the entire enterprise seems characterized by ease. Yes, when he powerfully swipes with his driver, he nearly swings out of his shoes. But the result is so often exactly what he intends: a long, loud cut that bisects the fairway and merely sets up irons that are the most precise the game knows at the moment.

Roundup of Saturday's high school sports action from the Greater Spokane League and Northeast A League. 

MOSCOW, Idaho – Ah, the good old days of 2023, when Idaho romped to a 9-4 record and the second round of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.

PULLMAN – Zevi Eckhaus had everything set up for his flight to Alabama, the site of Jacksonville State, where he had signed to play football.

SEATTLE – On Monday morning, I asked Blair Angulo – a West Coast recruiting analyst for 247Sports – if it was difficult to agree on a consensus recruiting ranking for quarterback Demond Williams Jr.

From staff reports

PULLMAN – Myles Rice is trading one shade of crimson for another.

When he didn’t make the varsity team at Kentwood High School in his junior year, Michael Ajayi sat in his room, tears flowing, wondering if he had a future in basketball. It was time for the mother of all pep talks.

The Gonzaga women’s basketball team’s roster will be much different next year.