The Big Sky Conference just announced that the University of California, Davis and Cal Poly have accepted invitations to joing the league as affiliate members in football. I am trying to track down Eastern Washington University athletics director Bill Chaves and Eagles head football coach…
Andrew Gardner (above in a great Chris Anderson photo) is one of many outstanding young distance runners in Spokane that should make for an interesting - and successful - cross country season. However, the Mead sophomore's story is quite different from most. Gardner was the…
Later this week I'll have a story on the financial ramifications of Idaho football's scheduling. For now, though, here are a few details: The payout for Saturday's Nebraska game, $800,000, is the largest the Vandals have ever received, according to athletic director Rob Spear. But…
COUGARS Tuesday mornings are never overflowing with new and notes as most every team is getting over its weekend-game hangover. Today is a little unusual as there are some things to link, so read on.
COUGARS Washington State's practice schedule has them going under the lights on Monday night, wearing their shells. That means no hard pads, just soft shoulder pads, helmets, jerseys and shorts. We have a couple notes, so read on.
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From North Dakota, in just its third year removed from the Division II ranks, to playing at Nebraska. Talk about a massive step up in competition for Idaho from last Thursday to Saturday, when it will be at Lincoln's Memorial Stadium to square off with…
COUGARS No, I'm not taking today as a holiday. But after getting in last night after midnight, drinking too much coffee on the plane and rediscovering how comfortable the Stearns and Foster is, I overslept big time. But we're awake now and have our usual,…
COUGARS Before we got on our flight from Dallas to Seattle – a flight once again full of Oregon State fans, a little less exuberant going home than they were headed out – we put together a couple things for tomorrow's S-R. You can read…
COUGARS It seemed like a perfect way to start a season. A beautiful day in the Midwest, an orange-hued, tailgated-up crowd ready to verbalize some, well, free-form poetry might be a nice way to put it, toward the Cougars, and the optimism only youth can…
COUGARS It's late here in Stillwater, so we'll just post the early versions of our game story and notebook and call it good. If you saw the game, you know the result. If you didn't, well you can find out the details on the link.…
COUGARS The first play was a fumble leading to a 7-0 Oklahoma State lead. It was 17-0 at the end of the first quarter. Then a 56-yard field goal from Nico Grasu seemed to fire up WSU. Alex Hoffman-Ellis sacked Brandon Weeden to force a…
COUGARS We're sitting in the press box at Boone Pickens Stadium – by we, I mean John Blanchette and myself – as we await Washington State's season opener. Keys to the game? We'll we covered that some this morning, but we have some other thoughts…
COUGARS The plane from Seattle to Dallas was filled with Oregon State fans. And, no, that wasn't the reason why the day was so stressful. In fact, the Beaver crowd was a lot of fun. My plane from Dallas to Tulsa was filled with Oklahoma…
I thought I had difficulties Friday. In North Idaho, they had to deal with lightning, lightning delays, rain and more lightning.Correspondent Steve Christilaw was at the Coeur d'Alene/Moses Lake game that endured a 1 hour and 10 minute lightning delay, only to restart and finally…
I can't even big to tell you about the computer issues I had tonight. First, I went to our Spokane Valley office early to set up and discovered there was something wrong with our webserver.That was the beginning of many more hurdles. So I had…
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Like Eastern Washington head coach Beau Baldwin explained, in this S-R story, following Thursdays 49-24 road loss to Nevada, the Eagles have some positives to build on despite the season-opening defeat.One of the biggest was the play of junior running back Taiwan Jones, who gets…
UPDATED: Friday, 10:45 a.m.Thought it would be good to refresh this and put it at the top of Sportslink with tonight being the official kickoff to the high school season.We start our look at Greater Spokane League football with a feature on preseason favorite Gonzaga…
UPDATED, 10 a.m.Mt. Spokane picked up where it left off in Greater Spokane League football a year ago as the defending champ topped Central Valley in a conference opener Thursday.Click here to read the story.ALSO, here's a link in the Nampa newspaper about Post Falls'…
COUGARS The road beckons. Washington State will begin the 2010 football season in less than 36 hours in Stillwater, Okla., and the Cougars leave Pullman this morning, busing to Lewiston for the charter to the plains. We're flying commercial, making three stops and hoping for…
Robb Akey wasn't entirely happy, and neither were Idaho players who spoke to the media after the Vandals' 45-0 rout of North Dakota. But they couldn't complain too much -- not after collecting the program's first shutout since 1997.We've got our unedited game story below,…
It was far from a crisp first half for the Idaho football team. Nonetheless, the Vandals are up 17-0 over North Dakota, an FCS team from the Great West Conference. Idaho's spirited defense forced two turnovers, the first a JoJo Dickson interception that was almost…
COUGARS The last Pullman practice prior to the Oklahoma State opener is over and the Cougars are ready to head out for Stillwater tomorrow morning. They'll hold a walk through at OSU tomorrow evening, but for more on what they accomplished today and for a…
After four days of training camp, capped by the intrasquad game on Sunday, the Spokane Chiefs sent half of the 70 players home.After two more days of practice they reassigned four more players, which means 31 players are headed for three games in three days…
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