Gonzaga's Robert Sacre and incoming recruit Kelly Olynyk are playing summer basketball on Canadian national teams. More on Sacre and the senior national team here and more on Olynyk, MVP of a tournament in France, and the U19 team here. Incoming recruit Manny Arop is…
Arenafootball2 will retain the 16-team playoff format it used in the 2008 season. That means 8 American Conference and 8 National Conference teams will advance to the playoffs. There had been discussion of trimming the field to 12 teams.On the topic of the ArenaCup possibly…
Some news out of Colorado Springs where Mark Few is serving as a court coach for the U19 and World University Games team tryouts. Sounds like Wake Forest will visit the Kennel this season with a return game also planned.Read on.
I put together a notebook after attending Shock practice Wednesday at the Arena. Some injury news (that's Jeff Van Orsow pictured above) to catch up on and an update on where the ArenaCup might be played. Find the article here.
Eastern Washington University's men's basketball coach Kirk Earlywine announced the addition of five new recruits to his roster on Tuesday. The announcement came as a huge surprise, considering the Eagles signed four players to letters of intent earlier this year.As is turns out only one…
Gonzaga's Mike Roth was named one of 29 regional winners of the Under Armour A.D. of the Year award. More here.(Roth is pictured above with J.P. Batista in 2006)
Back with more on Austin Daye's decision to remain in the NBA Draft. I talked with Mark Few and Daye for a few minutes this afternoon and filed this unedited article that will run in Tuesday's S-R. Also, Saint Mary's Patty Mills is staying in…
Austin Daye took the deadline clock down to the final hour before announcing he will keep his name in the NBA Draft.About an hour before Monday’s 2 p.m. (PST) deadline, Daye informed Gonzaga's coaching staff by telephone that he will forgo his last two years…
Spokane moved to 10-0 and set a couple of franchise records along the way, crushing Stockton 88-27 at the Stockton Arena on Friday night. The top-ranked Shock set a franchise record for points scored and they also forced nine turnovers, including six interceptions. Stanley Franks…
Aaron Williams, a key member of Spokane's defensive secondary, has been placed on injured-reserve. Williams has been battling a knee injury for several weeks and it appears surgery is likely. More here.
The Spokane Shock (9-0) tangle with Stockton for the third time this season. Game time is 7 p.m. Friday in Stockton. Spokane won the first two meetings and are 9-0 all-time against the Lightning.Read on for an unedited game advance. UPDATE (9:01 p.m.): Stockton quarterback…
Austin Daye had a conversation with the Associated Press writer in Charlotte, N.C. and appears to be leaning toward skipping his final two seasons at Gonzaga. Read the AP story here.
After a bye week, Spokane returned to the practice field Tuesday. We caught up with some of the players to see how they spent the week off and who will/won't be able to play in Friday's road game at Stockton. Read on for an unedited…
COUGARS We have a short story for tomorrow concerning the salaries of Ken Bone's three main assistants, Jeff Hironoka, Ben Johnson and Curtis Allen. The group is making quite a bit more than Tony Bennett's three main assistants made last year. For the unedited version,…
This job is adrenalin filled, just like the competition I watched and wrote about during the year. From September through May the days are long and the weeks run six days and when it ends, as senior athletes can attest, there is a letdown as…
COUGARS Isn't this supposed to be the quiet time in college athletics? Ya, right. No matter that it's June. There's still a bunch of stuff going on. For links, read on.
COUGARS Starting safety Xavier Hicks missed the first three games of last season. It wasn't because he was injured. It was because he had been suspended by coach Paul Wulff after pleading guilty to attempted third-degree assault and third-degree theft in an incident involving a…
COUGARS • UPDATED: 3:30 P.M. The basketball roster news that was announced at Washington State yesterday gives us an opening to exam a couple aspects of last year's team that we haven't written about before in depth. If you're interested, read on.
COUGARS Some news we've had before on the Washington State basketball roster is going to be made official today, with one surprise. For that information, read on.
All streaks, someone once said, come to an end.Such was the case Monday when the Region, winless in the 15 previous Jack Blair Memorial Classic girls basketball all-star games, knocked off the Metro. Click here to read more.In the picture above, Amy Warbrick of Coeur…
COUGARS • UPDATED: 10 A.M. Yesterday was June 1, the day Washington State University President Elson Floyd had originally earmarked for the school departments to submit budget cuts. But last week Floyd gave everyone an extension, so don't expect anything to happen for a week…
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