In a matter of days, the Algerian national soccer team has captivated the city of Lawrence, Kansas, with World Cup fever – a whirlwind romance that’s blossomed before they’ve even played their first match in Kansas City, Missouri.
Soccer lovers in the Pacific Northwest will finally join the party this afternoon when European giants Belgium set the ball rolling in a heavyweight Group G clash with African royals Egypt at the imposing 68,000-seat Lumen Field.
A GRIP ON SPORTS • The Ides of June hold something the more famous ones of March do not. If you answered a worse publicist, there would be no argument here. But our point is simpler. Today holds a deadline that happens four times a year, though only self-employed or retired folks – hey, it’s weird but I can check off both of those boxes – know what it is.
Smack in the middle of a roiling month for college football comes a week unlike any the sport has experienced — a week jammed with three tectonic events that will shape the future for all 138 teams and, perhaps, the entirety of collegiate athletics.
EUGENE, Ore. – Alan Espinal homered, the go-ahead run scored on an errant pickoff throw and the Spokane Indians topped the Eugene Emeralds 4-2 in the finale of a six-game High-A Northwest League series at PK Park on Sunday.
One of France’s rising basketball prospects is set to join Gonzaga’s roster next season, helping Mark Few’s program address one of the team’s glaring holes as the Zags enter their first year in the Pac-12 Conferences.
Take West Sunset Highway out of Spokane, and before cowboy country opens up, just beyond a strip of barbecue spots, truck washes and kennels, is the rather incongruous modern, glass-paneled hotel hosting the Egypt squad at the 2026 World Cup.
It started in middle school, watching her older sister perform for the cheer squad at Ferris High School. A few years later, Carys Colley joined the same cheer program .
The fourth-ranked Spokane Velocity remained winless on the road following a 1-0 defeat to AV Alta at Lancaster Municipal Stadium in Antelope Valley on Saturday.
EUGENE, Ore. – Max Belyeu hit two of the visitors’ five home runs and the Spokane Indians trounced the first-place Eugene Emeralds 11-2 in the fifth of a six-game High-A Northwest League series at PK Park on Saturday.
EUGENE – Rosemary Longisa entered Saturday's 1,500-meter national final as the top-ranked runner in the event, and the Washington State sophomore left no doubt, separating for a comfortable victory to claim her first NCAA championship and cement herself as a Cougar great.
