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The Spokane Indians are off to an historic start to the 2024 season. They won their first eight games for the first time in team history before dropping the finale of their road trip to Tri-City on Sunday.

From staff reports

Three decades into his coaching career, Dan Monson still leans on one of his closest basketball confidants whenever he’s in a bind.

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 ...