UPDATED Well, all those phone calls came for a reason. San Francisco called Robb Akey at least three times leading up to the NFL draft about Idaho guad Mike Iupati, and the 49ers wound up taking the Samoan with the 17th pick. Iupati is Idaho's…
COUGARS • UPDATED: 8:05 P.M. We have a short story for you tonight for a couple reasons. One is the printed paper has only a little space for all the news tonight and the other is John Blanchette has a Cougar-related column for tomorrow, which…
Click the tab below to read our Greater Spokane League baseball roundup, featuring the Mt. Spokane/Univeristy game.
Spokane doesn't play a game this week, but there's still Shock news to discuss.Read on.
Here's my column about a school district that has cut half of its sports and is facing further cuts.Prep notebook: GSL, IEL discontinue nonleague football games.Here's a feature story by Steve Bergum on Mead soccer standout Nick Hamer.
COUGARS Washington State returns to the field this afternoon for its final spring practice before Saturday's spring game. Two things about Saturday. Once again I'll mention the game will be televised by SWX, the digital sports station run by KHQ. I know it is available…
You may have seen my story on Sunday about Mike Iupati's NFL draft prospects. I also wanted to pass along some additional comments and thoughts on one of the most decorated players in Idaho football history. Who knows where he'll go, but one possible hint:…
Spokane's win over Bossier-Shreveport vaulted the Shock up to No. 4 in the AFL writers' and coaches' polls. Last week, Spokane was sixth in the writers' rankings and ninth in the coaches' poll.Bossier Shreveport (2-1) slipped to seventh (writers) and a tie for fifth (coaches).
The Ferris baseball team topped Central Valley 6-3 in Greater Spokane League action Tuesday.Click here to read our story.
Edmonton Oil Kings head coach Steve Pleau, a former assistant coach with the Spokane Chiefs (2006-07), was fired Tuesday along with assistant coach Rocky Thompson. Pleau was 67-116-12-21 in three seasons, with one playoff appearance. This year's record was 16-43-4-9Among the early names mentioned are…
COUGARS Despite there being no Washington State football practice yesterday, and none today, it is quite a busy day on the Web, even with WSU items. So let's get right at it, with a quick spin around the Pac-10 after we check out what's going…
COUGARS No practice today but we still went forward with our interview of offensive coordinator Todd Sturdy for a look at the offense in the spring. Heck, we promised you a story and we had to deliver. Without practice, however, we weren't able to get…
Click the tab below to see updated Greater Spokane League baseball statistics.
COUGARS • UPDATED: 10:15 A.M.; 2:15 P.M. It's a big Tuesday for college athletics. Not so much for what goes on today out on the fields and the courts. No, today is big because of what might go on in Arizona. The BCS commissioners are…
COUGARS Spent much of the afternoon trying to flesh out our story on newest Washington State basketball recruit Andre Winston, Jr., the unedited version of which is on the link. Read on.
Heather Bowman, Gonzaga's and the West Coast Conference's all-team leading scorer, has a chance to continue her basketball career close to home. The Lewis and Clark graduate has signed a free-agent contract with the Seattle Storm.It's not on the WNBA team's website but we have…
COUGARS We expected to have this up quicker, but the Andre Winston news took some time away from football. But we now have our football story ready for tomorrow's S-R, so we can post it. Read on for the unedited version along with some web-only…
The retired Mike Vlahovich, out of the goodness of his heart, has compiled statistical soccer leaders for the Greater Spokane and Great Northern leagues. Click below to see.
The Spokane Stars elite girls basketball team captured a championship in Phoenix over the weekend. Click the tab below to read more.
Click the tab below to see the updated statistics.
Information from the Washington-Oregon basketball game, where Mead's Jazmine Redmon was the MVP in the girls game and G-Prep's Ryan Nicholas had a big game for the boys.Redmon and future Gonzaga teammate Danielle Walters of Pasco made the difference down the stretch while Nicholas was…
Click the tab below to see the first North Idaho track and field honor roll.
Early on a sun-kissed Saturday in Pasco the crowd at Edgar Brown Stadium was buzzing.Derek Eager of Tahoma, who had set the state record in the javelin early this year, shattered his own mark by more than 10 feet with a throw of 229-feet, 5-inches,…
COUGARS • UPDATED: 10 A.M. Sorry for the late post, but we were out on Rogers Field by 6:30 this morning to cover practice. The early time came about because Monday are off days in the spring so quite a few players signed up for…
Spokane improved to 2-1 on the season with a wild 78-70 AFL win over Bossier-Shreveport on Saturday. (Pictured above is Shock DB Rod Mosley defending the BattleWings' Randy Hymes.) If you're wondering if that was a franchise record for points, the answer is no. Spokane…
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