Mead moves into semifinals
The Mead volleyball team is one win away from playing for another state championship.Lewis and Clark, meanwhile, will play for fourth/seventh Friday.Click the tab below to read my unedited story.
THURSDAY, NOV. 12, 2009
WSU football, basketball news 1
COUGARS • UPDATED: 6:30 P.M. We have a couple items for you, including a short feature on Myron Beck and an advance on tomorrow's basketball game. Also, there are some notes from Paul Wulff's press conference. Read on.
Goodson next in GU point guard assembly line
It's college basketball preview time. The S-R has already previewed Idaho, WSU and EWU, meaning Gonzaga's up next. Some turn out to be team overviews, others zero in on a specific player.I wrote about Demetri 'Meech' Goodson, the fiercely competitive point guard from Spring, Texas.…
QB Reader a nice find for Idaho 2
This week's WAC notebook centers on Idaho backup quarterback Brian Reader, who's been thrust into action with Nate Enderle's shoulder injury. It's still up in the air on who will start Saturday at Boise State, but most of the signs are pointing at Reader right…
State 4A volleyball 2
Defending 4A state champ Lewis and Clark and Mead opened with wins in first-round matches Thursday morning at Toyota Center in Kennewick.Click the tab below to read more. I'll update tonight with their second-round matches and my unedited story.Here's a link to a feature Mike…
Big weekend for Eagles 1
It's a big weekend coming up for both Eastern Washington's football and men's basketball teams.The Eagles football team will try to keep its postseason playoff hopes alive on Saturday when they travel to Cedar City, Utah, to take on Southern Utah in a non-conference game.…
UCLA might get cold reception at WSU 11
COUGARS The forecast for this weekend seems to get a little worse each day. If not worse, than colder. The chance of snow or a cold rain Friday? Sixty percent. Saturday, only 20 percent, but a high of 33. Of course, that could all change,…
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11, 2009
Mackay visits WSU practice 2
COUGARS From basketball to football. The sound you heard was me grinding my gears. Or teeth. I'm not sure. Anyhow, we have the unedited version of my story on the chemistry between quarterback and receivers. Oh, and some notes on this Veteran's Day, including a…
Simon signs with WSU 1
COUGARS A quick post with the unedited version of the story about WSU's basketball signee from the early period that started Wednesday. Read on.
Idaho basketball legend dies
Ozzie Kanikkeberg died Friday at the age of 83. He was best known as a small-school basketball icon, having won 660 games during his 46-year coaching career — with 42 of those seasons coming at Genesee. His career win total is probably a state record.
UI signs three recruits, Spear makes news
Coach Don Verlin has signed three players to letters of intent -- two North Idaho College recruits and a high schooler from Walla Walla. Read on for more info, as well as details about AD Rob Spear refusing to board a Bronco airplane.
Gray, GU roundup
Gonzaga junior guard Steven Gray (pictured vs. North Carolina) has branched out into a different arena. More here. --It's the first day of the early signing period, but it's quiet at Gonzaga. The Bulldogs figure to sign three players in the next two years and…
Ex-Chiefs faring well.
Thanks to the first goal for rookie defenseman Landon Oslanski, Lethbridge has won three in a row. ’s first goal of the season was the winner as the Hurricanes edged the Calgary Hitmen, 3-2. . . . Oslanski, 17, and D Mike Reddington, 19, were…
More notoriety for Zag women
Not to make too much of the Gonzaga women's basketball team, afterall, the Zags are just one of four D-I teams on our property, but, let's face it - this team is poised for the best season any of our teams have ever had.Of course,…
Another crowded Wednesday with WSU links 3
COUGARS It's a crowded morning, no doubt about it. It always is on Wednesday, as everyone writes about Pac-10 football. Plus, basketball is getting underway, so there's that as well. Read on.
TUESDAY, NOV. 10, 2009
Everett derails Chiefs 1
It was not a good night for the Spokane Chiefs, who were out-played and beaten 5-2 by Everett Tuesday night at the Arena.There is really not much to be said than what is in the unedited game story I filed for Wednesday's paper.
UI practice report, Q&A with Criner 1
You'll find a few tidbits from this afternoon's Vandal football practice and some interesting comments from QB Brian Reader and defensive coordinator Mark Criner below. Check it out and feel free to comment away.
Tuesday afternoon WSU report
COUGARS Football practice is over. The team is looking forward to its day off from school tomorrow, though practice will be at the usual time. We've got our Pac-10 story in its unedited glory on the link. But we kick off the post with some…
WSU's Koprivica has traveled a long way to Pullman 1
COUGARS Basketball season opens officially this Friday. As I searched for a subject to kick off the season, it seemed natural to settle on lone senior Nik Koprivica. So we sat down and talked. And, after three years of talking with him, I learned what…
Sports overlap at WSU 2
COUGARS We had to make an executive decision this morning. The choice was complicated: Put up one morning post, intermingling football and basketball, which would make WSU's section longer, or put up two, with the usual football stuff in the first one and a shorter…
MONDAY, NOV. 9, 2009
WSU runs past LC State 3
COUGARS The exhibition season is now officially over in Pullman. It didn't last long. One game. The games start for real – and count – Friday against Mississippi Valley State, though they way its performed against WSU the past two years make it almost like…
UI hoops welcomes 8 newcomers 3
College basketball officially tipped off tonight, so it seems a perfect time to post our Idaho men's basketball season preview. The Vandals don't open till Friday at Utah, but we've got our story, schedule and roster below -- all of which will appear in tomorrow's…
WSU leads 42-24 at half
COUGARS Well, WSU is leading handily. That's about all you can say about the first half. It's a sloppy basketball game (17 turnovers combined, 10 by L-C State), but that could have been predicted with all that's new here at Beasley. New coach, new players,…
WSU opens basketball season 3
COUGARS OK, you talked me into it. Here's a quick pregame basketball post. Read on.
UCLA comes to town Friday
COUGARS This blog post is coming to you from the upper reaches of Beasley Coliseum, where we get ready to watch the Washington State men's basketball team play its only exhibition game of the preseason. The opponent is Lewis-Clark State. But we'll get to basketball…
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