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• Blanchette: Sheridan, players forged trails together

  April 28, 2013 in Sports on Page C1 Linda Sheridan was good at games. Maybe underrated at charades, however. This story has been retrieved from a conversation that took place 28 years ago, or well before digital recorders. …

• Whirling wonder

  April 26, 2013 in Sports on Page B1 Of the 18 intercollegiate sports played at Whitworth College, only in five have the athletes in the current senior class not experienced a championship. Winning is hardly taken for granted, …

• Blanchette: Comito sails ever higher

  April 25, 2013 in Sports It’s a rare weekend when Whitworth’s Carter Comito doesn’t step into the ring and beat the field by 20 feet or more. When he took his school record up to …

• Blanchette: 2013 Cougs remain work in progress

  April 21, 2013 in Sports on Page C1 The com- pany line from Washington State Football, Inc., is that the team we last knew bears virtually no resemblance to the team we’ll be getting to know. Night and … 2

• Blanchette: Beloved Harshman worthy of accolades

  April 14, 2013 in Sports on Page C1 Jim McKean remembers receiving hand-written recruiting letters from Marv Harshman on Washington State letterhead – the requisite flattery there but measured, with an implication of mutual need deserving mutual investment. … 1

• Shock all-in for success

  April 13, 2013 in Sports on Page C1 Meaning no disrespect to the 12 other members of the Arena Football League, but a modest proposal: Let’s just make this a best-of-seven for the Foster Trophy and call it …

• Jury still out on closer fences’ effects

  April 9, 2013 in Sports on Page B1 SEATTLE – Remember when Wilson tried to move the fence in on Tim the Tool Man in “Home Improvement”? No? That wasn’t an episode?

• Blanchette: Jury still out on Safeco’s closer fences

  April 8, 2013 in Sports SEATTLE – Remember when Wilson tried to move the fence in on Tim the Tool Man in “Home Improvement”? No? That wasn’t an episode? Could have sworn it showed up … 1

• Blanchette: Hanson put his best foot forward

  April 7, 2013 in Sports on Page C1 Before he was pro football’s most underappreciated kicker for the game’s most appreciation-resistant franchise, Jason Hanson apprenticed for the job at Washington State University. There was little competitively to recommend …

• Blanchette: Meet Mr. Awesome

  April 4, 2013 in Sports Who is Cam F. Awesome? He is the 24-year-old super-heavyweight straw that stirs the 2013 USA Boxing National Championships, which heads into the final two days of its week-long run …

• Blanchette: Arena won’t have to take backseat

  April 1, 2013 in Sports on Page B1 Fact: The audience which took in the first session of the women’s NCAA basketball regional the other night at the Spokane Arena was barely half as big as it was … 4

• Blanchette: Arena won’t have to take backseat

  March 31, 2013 in Sports Fact: The audience which took in the first session of the women’s NCAA basketball regional the other night at the Spokane Arena was barely half as big as it was …

• Blanchette: LSU’s Plaisance has tale similar to Olynyk’s

  March 30, 2013 in Sports on Page C1 Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Tall, talented player shows up on campus with the baggage of considerable expectations. Multiskilled. Coach’s kid, with that basketball creature’s innate feel for …

• Blanchette: LSU’s Plaisance has tale similar to Olynyk’s

  March 29, 2013 in Sports Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Tall, talented player shows up on campus with the baggage of considerable expectations. Multiskilled. Coach’s kid, with that basketball creature’s innate feel for …

• Blanchette: In biggest weekend, Zags don’t bring A game

  March 24, 2013 in Sports on Page C2 SALT LAKE CITY – So was life as No. 1 as much fun as everyone thought it was going to be? Maybe this is the wrong day to ask. 11

• No point in sowing seeds of discontent

  March 23, 2013 in Sports on Page C1 SALT LAKE CITY – Read somewhere that of the 8.15 million entries in ESPN’s Bracket Challenge, only two had all 16 of Thursday’s games wrong. Damn. Usually I remember to …

• Blanchette: Amid the carnage, Zags still standing

  March 22, 2013 in Sports Read somewhere that of the 8.15 million entries in ESPN’s Bracket Challenge, only two had all 16 of Thursday’s games wrong. 1

• Jaguars can have cheers, Zags will take the victory

  March 22, 2013 in Sports on Page B2 SALT LAKE CITY – When a 16-seed finally does win one of these morality plays, it’s going to be for all the 16s over the years that should have won. … 1

• Blanchette: Relief not to be on wrong side of history

  March 21, 2013 in Sports When a 16-seed finally does win one of these morality plays, it’s going to be for all the 16s over the years that should have won.

• Blanchette: Stockton back at old playground

  March 20, 2013 in Sports He shot baskets with his brothers on the court here at EnergySolutions Arena while their dad iced his knees and custodians cleared the detritus of another Utah Jazz game. 1

• GU faces a difficult road as a No. 1 seed

  March 20, 2013 in Sports on Page B1 SALT LAKE CITY – Thinking back, it was maybe 10 minutes into the impossibly fun tale of Gonzaga basketball that the Zags evolved from humble, lovable underdogs into something less … 3

• Blanchette: No one’s going to let Zags off easy

  March 18, 2013 in Sports on Page B1 This was supposed to be the year Gonzaga took the last smidgen of suspense out of Selection Sunday. So why were they still sweating it out at 29 minutes after … 8

• Blanchette: No one’s going to let Zags off easy

  March 17, 2013 in Sports This was supposed to be the year Gonzaga took the last smidgen of suspense out of Selection Sunday. 4

• Blanchette: Whitworth still has a legacy to work on

  March 17, 2013 in Sports on Page C1 They were calling this the biggest thing to happen at Whitworth University since Jay Graves gave them all this land. And, yes, the students were squeezed under the dome so …

• Blanchette: Whitworth still has a legacy to work on

  March 16, 2013 in Sports They were calling this the biggest thing to happen at Whitworth University since Jay Graves gave them all this land. And, yes, the students were squeezed under the dome so … 1

• One last season to jump through WAC hoops

  March 15, 2013 in Sports on Page B1 LAS VEGAS – The elevator doors at the Orleans Hotel are papered over with the logo for the Western Athletic Conference basketball tournament playing in the arena next door, which …

• Blanchette: One last season to jump through WAC hoops

  March 14, 2013 in Sports Only Idaho, NMSU and Seattle will be returning when the Western Athletic Conference basketball tournament reconvenes, joined by the ZipCode All-Stars: Cal State Bakersfield, Chicago State, Grand Canyon, Missouri-Kansas City, …

• Blanchette: Back to the drawing board; will Bone be doing the drawing?

  March 14, 2013 in Sports on Page B1 LAS VEGAS – Ken Bone’s finest hour lasted a week. Normally, that sounds like real mileage. In college basketball, it’s running on empty. 2

• Blanchette: Zags enjoy view from the top

  March 11, 2013 in Sports LAS VEGAS – In a new twist to an old tale, the Gonzaga Bulldogs celebrated their latest bauble with a hike among their flock roaring hosannas at the Orleans Arena. … 1

• Blanchette: Zags-Gaels: WCC’s own prime-time Family Feud

  March 11, 2013 in Sports on Page B1 LAS VEGAS – Welcome back to the championship game of the West Coast Conference men’s basketball tournament, the defending champs (Saint Mary’s) against the more-often-than-not champs (Gonzaga). Or as it’s …

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