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WSU gets commitment from 3-star WR Malachi Garlington in one of Cougs’ biggest wins in 2027 recruiting class

UPDATED: Thu., June 4, 2026

PULLMAN – Washington State can chalk up one of its biggest recruiting wins lately.

Sports > WSU football

Ryan Leaf to join USA Network as lead Pac-12 college football analyst

UPDATED: Thu., June 4, 2026

Ryan Leaf will be USA Network's lead Pac-12 college football analyst and will do a select number of games as a college basketball analyst, a source with direct knowledge of the deal told the Athletic.

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A Grip on Sports: There has been a changing of the guard at WSU, not in a high-profile position but in an underappreciated one

Thu., June 4, 2026

A GRIP ON SPORTS • During my time covering Washington State’s football and basketball programs, ticking someone off was a common occurrence. Coaches, players, heck, maybe even you once or twice. The most-often aggrieved? The Cougars’ sports information director Bill Stevens. It was an almost weekly event. So why stop now? I’m going to give him something to complain about again this morning.

Sports > Outdoors

Alan Liere’s hunting and fishing report for June 4

UPDATED: Wed., June 10, 2026

Fly fishing

Sports > Outdoors

Fish Fest set for Saturday at Fort Spokane | Field reports

Wed., June 3, 2026

The Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife will host Fish Fest on June 6 at Fort Spokane Day Use Area, located about 24 miles north of Davenport on State Route 25.

Sports > Outdoors

Quaking quail

Wed., June 3, 2026

A California quail calls from a pine tree on Tuesday. Reader David Bessen took this photo on Spokane’s South Hill.

Sports > Outdoors

Swimming and our ancestral protozoa | Ammi Midstokke

UPDATED: Wed., June 10, 2026

One of the most redeeming qualities of being a writer is that one has a well-developed imagination. While it has often convinced me that sounds outside my tent are bears, coyotes and Sasquatch, it has also spent the last several months telling me I glide through the water with increasing fishlike grace.

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On the air

Wed., June 3, 2026

Thursday’s TV Highlights

Sports > Area sports

Spokane Indians rally falls short in loss to Hillsboro 4-2 | NWL baseball

UPDATED: Thu., June 4, 2026

Spokane got the tying run aboard in the bottom of the ninth, but the rally fizzled and the Indians absorbed a 4-2 loss to the Hillsboro Hops in a High-A Northwest League game at Avista Stadium.

Sports > NBA

Jalen Brunson overcomes injury scares, cold shooting to lead Knicks to Game 1 victory in NBA Finals

UPDATED: Wed., June 3, 2026

For most of Game 1 of the NBA Finals, it did not look like Jalen Brunson was about to deliver anything close to a signature performance.

Sports > Seattle Seahawks

Russell Wilson announces move to CBS in apparent retirement video

UPDATED: Wed., June 3, 2026

Former Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson made it official Wednesday that he is joining CBS Sports to serve as an analyst on the NFL Today.

Sports > High school sports

Spring 2026 high school sports all-league teams for Greater Spokane League and Eastern Washington

UPDATED: Sun., June 7, 2026

Spring 2026 high school sports all-league teams for the Greater Spokane League, Northeast A, Northeast 2B, Northeast 1B and Southeast 1B leagues.

Sports > MLB

Mariners’ winning streak ends in a sloppy loss to Mets

UPDATED: Wed., June 3, 2026

The loud and sound brand of baseball that had defined the Mariners’ resurgence over the past week?

Sports > Area sports

Eastern Washington quarterbacking greats Bo Levi Mitchell, Vernon Adams Jr. open CFL seasons this weekend

UPDATED: Wed., June 3, 2026

The first two games of the 2026 CFL season will feature a couple of star quarterbacks who made their names at Eastern Washington University.

Sports > Seattle Mariners

Mariners’ Cal Raleigh to begin rehab assignment in Everett | Notebook

UPDATED: Wed., June 3, 2026

On the injured list for the first time in his career, Seattle Mariners star catcher Cal Raleigh (oblique strain) is scheduled to begin a rehab assignment Sunday with the Everett AquaSox.

Sports > Gonzaga basketball

Report: Gonzaga to meet first-year coach Will Wade, LSU in Nov. 14 nonconference game at Arena

UPDATED: Wed., June 3, 2026

Gonzaga was able to replace one SEC team on its nonconference schedule with another and managed to add a pseudo home game in the process.

Sports > MLB

Former Zag, MLB reliever Eli Morgan manages ups and downs of pro baseball

UPDATED: Wed., June 3, 2026

Morgan, 30, has bounced from Cleveland to Chicago and now finds himself in the Kansas City organization, where he'd made 13 appearances out of the Royals' bullpen and picked up one save before being optioned back to Triple-A Omaha on Tuesday.

Sports > NCAA

In Senate hearing, Pac-12 commissioner Teresa Gould calls for NCAA to consider collective bargaining

UPDATED: Wed., June 3, 2026

Pac-12 commissioner Teresa Gould on Wednesday called for college sports to have an “honest” conversation about athlete employment and collective bargaining, momentous steps for an industry that has long resisted adopting two defining features of professional sports.

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A Grip on Sports: Even in this day and age, sports can still build a few things, including a community that survives the years

Wed., June 3, 2026

A GRIP ON SPORTS • There are many ancillary benefits to sports. Living a longer, healthier life. Exercising your emotions. Financial ones, though for the majority of us that’s more of a drain than a livelihood. The biggest bennies? Community. Relationships. Friendship. Sports builds them. And they can last a lifetime.

Sports > Seattle Seahawks

Here is Russell Wilson’s case to make Hall of Fame | Analysis

UPDATED: Fri., June 5, 2026

Monday morning’s news that Russell Wilson’s football career may be over as he reportedly heads to a new job in TV with CBS Sports creates an interesting future possibility for Seahawks fans — the sight of Wilson and Bobby Wagner entering the Pro Football Hall of Fame together five years from now. That assumes, of course, that neither plays again, which remains unclear. The reports that Wilson ...

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