Seattle will likely have more players selected to the game but only assured of two after having seven take part each of the last four years.

Follow along here for updates and analysis as the Gonzaga Bulldogs host the UT Arlington Mavericks at McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane. Tip is scheduled for 6 p.m.

Eastern Washington wants to make sure the 4,100 tickets it’s been allotted stay out of green and gold hands.

After missing out on five-star Marlon Tuipulotu two years ago, the Huskies are set to sign four of the nation's top 30 defensive tackles in the 2019 class. Jacob Bandes, Faatui Tuitele among highest-graded defensive tackle recruits the Huskies have ever had.

Nearly four months later, it seems almost certain: The Huskies’ College Football Playoff chances ended the second they lost to Auburn.

When Salt Lake City pursued the Winter Olympics more than two decades ago, competition was so fierce that lavishing International Olympic Committee members with gifts and favors seemed commonplace. Salt Lake City got caught in a bribery scandal that nearly derailed the plans for the 2002 Winter Olympics. Two decades later, the script has flipped. The IOC is struggling to find cities willing to host and Salt Lake City is a contender for 2030, despite the bribery scandal.

Former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice says he’s not speaking out against domestic violence as a way to rejoin the NFL.

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Monday’s game against Rider, played in front of a sparse home crowd that numbered just 1,673 – but looked much smaller than that – could’ve been another bump in WSU’s road. Instead, the Cougars used it as a pick-me-up, beating the Broncs 94-80 to preserve their unbeaten record at Beasley Coliseum.

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Junior guard Brian Warren leads UT Arlington in most offensive categories, including scoring (14.9), assists (3.3) and made field goals (48), 3-pointers (17) and free throws (38).

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When EWU (1-9) concludes its brawny conference slate Tuesday at Reese Court against Summit League power South Dakota State (9-4), it won’t get any easier in the paint.

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The loss of wide receiver Cooper Kupp is starting to show its effect on the Los Angeles Rams offense.

It was supposed to be a culmination of the Seahawks’ ever-growing momentum. It was supposed to be the final, giddy step into the promised land of the playoffs. It was supposed to be a perfunctory defeat of an overmatched foe. It was supposed to be a party. A coronation. Instead, the Seahawks left Levi’s Stadium on Sunday with drawn faces after their 26-23 overtime loss to the 49ers, muttering about “shooting themselves in the foot’’ so many times you expected to see bloody tracks back to the team bus.

If professional football is in the midst of an inexorable decline – the NFL, some doomsayers sayeth, might be a sporting dinosaur by century’s end * – then how is it possible there are two new professional football leagues aiming to debut by 2020?