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

A GRIP ON SPORTS • Where were we? Oh, yes. Contemplating a Thomas Wolfe novel and college hoops. Where else would we be?

SEATTLE – He’s swung and missed at pitches that he knows should’ve taken. He’s fouled off pitches that he knows he should’ve crushed. He’s failed in at-bats with runners on base and in important situations where he knows he needs to come through.

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AUGUSTA, Ga. – An uninvited gust swept through the Masters on Friday, rustling magnolia leaves, scattering hats and whipping up sandstorms across the course. It scattered the leader board and baffled the world’s best players.

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Even through the bluster that blew hats off heads and sand out of bunkers by the beachful, there is a warmth to the applause provided by the gallery that surrounds the 18th green at Augusta National Golf Club. It is forever perfect in tenor and tone, meeting whatever moment that plays out on the lushness before it – celebratory and in awe of a round well played, appreciative and empathetic for a Masters career coming to an end, quietly acknowledging the struggles for a player who misses the cut.

TORONTO – As they exited Toronto with a much-needed victory, featuring Cal Raleigh tormenting Blue Jays fans once again, there seemed to be a general relief surrounding the Mariners. And no, it wasn’t because announcer Aaron Goldsmith magically found his missing passport before they took off.

In one of his first moves as the newly named president of football operations for the Seahawks, John Schneider appeared to lay down the gauntlet on himself.

The old turkey call is lined with notches. Dan Wittenberg adds one for each legal turkey the call draws within shooting range. He’s careful to say he’s not the best turkey hunter in the world, but he knows how to talk to birds. While helping young hunters during youth seasons earlier this month, he called in 19 male turkeys. That’s 19 more notches for the old call.

Almost exactly 25 years after taking a job that took him away from Spokane, Dan Monson has accepted one that’s bringing him back.

Camping and mooring boats on state lands may get more expensive next year.

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AUGUSTA, Ga. – Fresh off his 2020 U.S. Open win, Bryson DeChambeau made headlines when he said that, for him, the storied Masters course plays like a par-67 track, a pronouncement that rattled the dogwoods and starched the green jackets.

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Nine days after David Riley left Eastern Washington to become Washington State’s basketball coach, the Eagles’ roster looks dramatically different than it did then, even as an announcement as to who will rebuild that roster becomes imminent.

What would Eastern Washington men’s basketball fans say if they were told that their search for a new basketball coach could land them a guy who just took his team to the NCAA Tournament?

Julian Strawther knows that as far as great situations for an NBA rookie go, nothing can top breaking into the NBA with the reigning league champs.

PULLMAN – During the first couple of weeks of Washington State’s spring football practice schedule, which stretched to its eighth day on Thursday morning, Syrus Webster has grown to love competing against one offensive lineman in particular: Esa Pole.