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FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2012

Spring ball means more snow

COUGARS FROM PULLMAN -- The sun came out and the sky was blue when the Cougars began spring football practice on Thursday. But the night ended with me scraping snow off my windshield. Yep, it's spring time on the Palouse. Read on for our coverage.

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Win Spokane Shock tickets

Spokane Shock tickets are being offered to people who complete The Spokesman-Review weekly news quiz dated March 18. Simply take the quiz, and you're eligible to win drawings that will be held today (Friday). We will have two separate drawing for two Spokane Shock tickets…

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THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2012



Snowed under by Wednesday's events 

A GRIP ON SPORTS I don't remember many more eventful Wednesday in March around here. There was the Cougars domination of Oregon State in the CBI semifinals – basically without leading scorer Brock Motum. There was 729 blog posts from Christian Caple on SportsLink yesterday.…

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012






Spring notes from Mike Leach

COUGARS FROM PULLMAN -- Mike Leach met with reporters for about 33 minutes today to discuss the beginning of spring practice on Thursday. Here are some of the highlights, as well as a few personnel notes.

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The changing of the seasons

A GRIP ON SPORTS Not a lot of surprises today. There's no rest for the Washington State men, who had to hustle down to Corvallis on Tuesday for tonight's CBI semifinal against Oregon State. The Gonzaga women, on the other hand, got to catch their…

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Hoops, football about to overlap 

COUGARS FROM PULLMAN -- With the basketball team on the road in Corvallis and spring football practice about to begin, it figures that it would snow enough to muck up the roads in Pullman. It has until Thursday to burn off, or else WSU is…

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TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2012


Gonzaga snows under Miami 

A GRIP ON SPORTS I get it. I probably write more than I should about the weather in this space. But today I have to. Woke up this morning and there is a dusting of snow, with more falling. Really? It was 60 degrees just…

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Hoops season continues for Cougs 

COUGARS FROM PULLMAN -- The WSU basketball team won't have long to celebrate last night's victory over Wyoming. Today it travels to Corvallis for yet another meeting with CBI darling Oregon State on Wednesday. Read on.

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MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2012

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