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The argument over the best team in men’s college basketball is ongoing. Maybe it’s Connecticut. Perhaps Purdue. Possibly even Houston.

Feb. 23—The Idaho Department of Fish and Game is contemplating regulation changes that could affect the quantity and quality of trout that can be caught and kept on the wild section of the Selway River and in the Deer Creek Reservoir, which is remote but easier to access. Other proposals could boost bag limits for brook trout on Elk Creek Reservoir and change the way motorized boats are ...

TUCSON, Ariz. – Kyle Smith can’t do much wrong at the moment.

A GRIP ON SPORTS • We love to look ahead on Fridays. After all, the following two days are always the best of the week – by any measure. But we can’t do that today. Not exclusively, anyway. Not after what happened last night.

Tis the point of the college basketball season when every win, even the margin of victory, and every loss is magnified for teams trying to fortify at-large credentials. Gonzaga is rarely in that position, but that’s where the Bulldogs find themselves with three key West Coast Conference regular-season games left.

TUCSON, Ariz. — Not a soul accompanied Jaylen Wells, the Washington State wing who had just sunk the dagger in No. 4 Arizona. Nobody walked with him down the tunnel, just outside the McKale Center, where he had just knocked down the shot of his life, a four-point play that sealed one of the single biggest wins in program history.

TUCSON, Ariz. — Washington State's football recruits will be seeing more of a certain face moving forward.

PORTLAND – Ben Gregg normally sees a few more familiar faces in the crowd when Gonzaga makes its annual trip to the Rose City.

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The “regional” round of state is this weekend with 16 area boys teams and 14 girls teams involved in either a protected seeding game or an elimination game to reach the “round of 12” at state venues in Tacoma, Yakima and Spokane.

The news keeps getting better for the Gonzaga women’s basketball team.

TEMPE, Ariz. — The first half was all bubbly elation for the Washington men’s basketball team, which did everything right while building a seemingly insurmountable lead.

Whitworth finds itself in familiar territory as it makes its 26th appearance in 27 years of the Northwest Conference Tournament.

From staff reports

Four weeks after losing on the road to Northern Arizona, that defeat was still on Jamie Loera’s mind as Eastern Washington prepared for its rematch on Thursday in Cheney.

PEORIA, Ariz. – The grunts from Emerson Hancock as he fired pitches to Cal Raleigh didn’t carry the echoing volume familiar from the days of Robbie Ray, whose primal exhortations are now heard in Giants camp over in nearby Scottsdale.

SEATTLE – Ask an everyday Seattle sports fan to name five Seahawks, and Jordyn Brooks probably won’t come up.

Follow along as the Cougars (20-6, 11-4 Pac-12) travel to play the Wildcats (20-5, 11-3) tonight at 8 p.m. on FS1.