Recent stories by John

• Blanchette: Chiesa can reach ultimate dream

  June 1, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 Mike Chiesa has arrived at his ultimate fight, and is perhaps a little surprised to discover how many detours there were on what he presumed would be a one-way street. …

• Blanchette: WSU legend Dietz gets his due

  May 23, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 By any reckoning, if you can coach Washington State into the Rose Bowl, they should probably chisel your name on some campus building. If you win it, well, legendary coaches …

• Sanders’ interceptions highlight Shock’s win

  May 19, 2012 in Sports on Page C1 If you bump into Terrance Sanders on the street, you might consider letting him pick your Powerball numbers. The man is that hot.

• Blanchette: Common sense keeps golf champ on course

  May 18, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 Like a lot of enterprising business travelers, Kira Powell managed to sneak in a round of golf while on the road this week. Unlike any of them, she had to … 1

• McWashington will be his own Cougar in football broadcast booth

  May 13, 2012 in Sports on Page C1 Given all the years Bob Robertson worked without a sidekick in the Washington State radio booth, the recent developments in broadcasting Cougars football must have Marconi spinning in his underground …

• Blanchette: Big Sky would take back Idaho

  May 10, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 There is something about the University of Idaho mulling its athletic future that suggests a chess novice playing against Deep Blue. No move seems to hold promise. 2

• Blanchette: Pirates coach Ramsay one for ages

  May 3, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 This replays itself probably once a season anyway, even now. The umpires come to the ballpark for the Saturday doubleheader, make their way to the Whitworth Pirates dugout and encounter … 1

• Blanchette: WAC’s sad odyssey hits rocks

  May 2, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 It is sad comedy, this dry rot eating at the Western Athletic Conference, the University of Idaho’s happy athletic home. Here’s one of the amusing parts: So many change orders … 3

• Blanchette: WSU’s Bartlett has all the right tools

  April 27, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 Poll 100 guys, and 99 will tell you their favorite tool – non-power division – is the hammer. Unless they’re lying. The other guy? He’ll say the sledgehammer.

• Blanchette: Spring returns to Fenway

  April 25, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 Baseball is so enamored with its dense history that even the footnotes are occasionally cast in large type. Which is how it happened that Jack Spring was on the mound …

• One for the road

  April 17, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 Overtime? Of course. And now there’s some extra time for the Spokane Chiefs.

• Blanchette: Doba’s had full life after football

  April 16, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 Bill Doba turned 71 in September, so every annual physical is fraught with anxiety. But this year, his good cholesterol was up and his bad cholesterol was down, and his … 11

• Blanchette: Rowley, Shock find common ground

  April 5, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 By now, Kyle Rowley can find some amusement in being cast as some sort of indoor football amalgam of Cesar Chavez and Eugene Debs. “It’s almost hilarious,” he said, “that …

• Blanchette: Williams reaches first goal

  April 4, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 Eric Williams had the best reason in the world for becoming a goaltender. “I couldn’t score,” he said with a shrug.

• Blanchette: Adding Pacific not perfect 10

  March 29, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 Does the West Coast Conference need to work on its expansion encores? The Church League made an outlandish splash in its first growth spurt in 30 years: Brigham Young. Even …

• Blanchette: Leach’s debut lacks spectacle, not tempo

  March 23, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 PULLMAN – Where was the marching band? The Mike Leach era – Washington State football as You’ve Never Seen it – made the first tentative steps from the abstract to …

• Blanchette: Gonzaga women earned their spot

  March 22, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 Ever so slightly overlooked in Gonzaga crashing yet another Sweet 16 in the NCAA women’s basketball tournament this week was the morsel of the Bulldogs holding the nation’s sixth-highest scoring …

• Dad inspires Chiesa from above now

  March 20, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 Michael Chiesa didn’t think his family took him seriously when he began mixed martial arts fighting, and when they realized it wasn’t a lark, they worried for his safety. So … 1

• Even in losing, this team was GU at its best

  March 18, 2012 in Sports on Page C3 PITTSBURGH – In the walk-in closet at Consol Energy Center where the Gonzaga Bulldogs changed clothes Saturday, Robert Sacre sent off one wave of inquisitors and greeted the next. “Here … 1

• Blanchette: Don’t try to pigeonhole Gonzaga

  March 17, 2012 in Sports on Page C1 PITTSBURGH – This is about the stage of March Madness when the Gonzaga apostle begins peeking at Faust’s bracket and weighing the bargain. Do you give up everything you have …

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