It’s Week 5 for Idaho football, and the No. 1-ranked team in the top classification in the state has played only two games, both against lower-classified opponents. That situation gets rectified this week.

Two weeks after opening the year with the most wide-open back-to-school model in the Inland Northwest, the Lakeland Joint School District has been struck with at least 10 cases of COVID-19.

For more than 50 years, Bob Isitt was a fixture in the distance running community in Spokane. If there was a ‘Mount Rushmore of running’ in the area, Isitt would not be out of place alongside contemporaries and Olympians Don Kardong and Gerry Lindgren and their high school coach at Rogers High School, Tracy Walters.

As a player, Jazmine Redmon is part of the rich history of Greater Spokane League girls basketball. Now, she’ll try to author a new legacy in a different role.

On Friday, the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association issued a release outlining the steps needed for returning to high school sports and activities in the state.

It was a tale of two halves. And Post Falls' defense, led by junior cornerback Zach Clark, owned the second half – and the final score. 

Alden Waddington hauled in a pair of first-half touchdown passes from Devon Suko and the Lakeland Hawks’ defense shut down Lewiston’s double-threat offense and pulled away with a 39-24 nonleague win at the Kibbie Dome on Friday.

The 50th annual Tri-State Invitational, a popular high school wrestling tournament hosted each December by North Idaho College and widely recognized as the unofficial start of the wrestling season in the area, was cancelled for 2020, announced by organizers on Friday citing COVID-19 concerns.

More nonleague play between league rivals is scheduled this week in the 5A ranks and one team finally gets at least a reasonable facsimile of a home game in Week 4 of the Idaho prep football season.

Like the defenses high-scoring Post Falls has split in Blaine Bennett's five seasons as head coach, he separates his long and assorted career into two distinct chapters.

Hear from Jory Thompson and Jeff Graham as they prepare to face off Friday.

Ed Pepple, the Hall of Fame boys basketball coach who coached at Mercer Island High School for 42 years, died Monday of cancer at age 88, Pepple’s son, Kyle, confirmed to the Seattle Times.

It was supposed to be a showdown between two of the highest-scoring teams in the Idaho 5A ranks after the first two weeks of the season.

The most interesting game of the week pits a pair of league rivals against each other in a nonleague game. Yes, there are quite a few of those this season due to rescheduling efforts caused by the pandemic.

Nick Hauger, a former University of Portland cross country standout who is now a member of the Flagstaff, Arizona-based professional running team NAZ Elite, posted a 10-mile time of 48 minutes, 55 seconds to run away with a win in California hosted by the team's sponsor, Hoka One.

Milwaukee Brewers rookie and former Mt. Spokane star Drew Rasmussen's Major League debut was as strange as it was prosperous.

SEATTLE – Few people can relate to the emotional trauma of shutdown high school sports more keenly than Tami Reese.

Jack Prka might have been named newcomer of the year in the Inland Empire League last season, but the senior quarterback looked very much at home Friday night as he led Idaho 5A No. 1-ranked Coeur d’Alene in its season opener over visiting 4A Sandpoint 55-0 in a nonleague game.

Most Idaho schools began their season last week, but the state’s top-ranked 5A school kicks off Friday – and the 4A ranks added another competitor.