COUGARS When I got to my hotel near LAX on Wednesday, I decided to take in some of the big summer high school basketball tournament being held at Loyola Marymount University. I cruised over and watched Spokane-based Eastern Washington Elite play, with an eye on…
COUGARS Another Pac-10 football media day is done and the participants are en route home, wherever that may be. We have a couple of stories for tomorrow's Spokesman-Review, the unedited versions of which can be found by simply clicking on the link. One is built…
COUGARS Paul Wulff and Kenny Alfred have left the dais, giving it up to Steve Sarkisian and UW. For my thoughts on what Wulff and Alfred said, read on.
For want of a better eponym, I've dubbed Tom and Julie Yearout Lewis and Clark's "First Family" of coaching. What better term to describe the only husband and wife, at least in my memory, from Spokane, and certainly the Greater Spokane League, to win State…
COUGARS The 2009 Pac-10 football season starts this morning. Well, not really. But the conference's media day does seem like a line of demarcation. Summer is now officially over and football is on the front burner. And today's links include some hot items, so if…
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