Conrad Scheidt and Jared Heston, a Lake City product, have opened eyes in their first year with the Idaho football program. Scheidt has already seen playing time at linebacker -- and is expected to get a lot more -- and Heston is one injury away…
COUGARS A quick evening post, as WSU's Thursday practices don't have any hitting and are mostly spent getting the game plan down pat. Besides, the players and coaches are off limits. But we have a couple things to share.
Back with the unedited article on Bol Kong's arrival, soon to be followed into Spokane by Elias Harris. Read on for more.
COUGARS As part of the quarterback shakeup this week, WSU coach Paul Wulff announced freshman Jeff Tuel will play, if not this week, then sometime. So just who is this quarterback that was expected to redshirt and be ready for the future? Though we couldn't…
The latest high school football predictions from Mike and Greg.
Gonzaga has released its 2009-10 schedule and it's another demanding slate (Michigan State, the Maui Invitational, WSU, Wake Forest, Duke, Oklahoma and Illinois in the non-conference). Read on.
The Spokane Chiefs opened the 2009-10 Western Hockey League season - their 25th - Friday night in Prince George. Below is the unedited copy of the story that will appear in Friday's paper.
Bol Kong is finally a Zag. Kong, a Sudanese native who has lived in Canada since the age of 7, has enrolled for classes at Gonzaga after obtaining Canadian citizenship recently and his student visa earlier this week. The talented, 6-foot-7 forward verbally committed to…
Brynsen Brown, a three-year letterwinner as a wide receiver on Eastern Washington University's football team, has been moved to the Eagles' defensive line. I didn't get a chance to talk to Brown about the position change, but Eastern coach Beau Baldwin said he is catching…
The Western Hockey League Western Conference capsules, from Cory Flett at the WHL office. Later today we'll have our Spokane Chiefs' preview that will run in Friday's paper. The Chiefs open at Prince George on Friday. After two games on the road, the Chiefs return…
Last week bloggers complained about teams running up the score and and Al Loysius took me to task for not being critical enough on the former. Here are my thoughts in my weekly Prep Page column.
The trouble with having your pre-season preview and predicted standings come out after the first game, meet or match, you don't have the advantage of passing time allowing people to forget before you prove yourself the fool.It appears I gave up too early on Mead…
COUGARS Just can't think of anything this morning, so we almost left this short lead-in blank, knowing you folks would understand. But despite the brain lock, we battled through and came up with 52 words to get you to go to the link, where the…
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