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SEATTLE – To steal a metaphor from another sport, the selection of Mike Holmgren to the Pro Football Hall of Fame seems like it should be a slam dunk.

Brayden Burgener has mixed feelings about tournaments after the way the past few months have gone.

The Spokane native and former Central Valley star averaged 25.7 points per game, totaling 77 against Eastern Washington, Idaho and Northern Colorado.

“I saw the opportunity for (Dan Monson) to come back here and do something special, like he did at Gonzaga,” Frahm said. “This Eastern opportunity with Mons sparks that same kind of competitiveness in me.”

With good size, solid athleticism and a knack for getting to his favorite spots, Caleb Stone-Carrawell resembles the type of player who has given Gonzaga headaches during West Coast Conference play and through long stretches of the 2024-25 season.

Randy Bennett may be the last person Gonzaga fans want a therapy session from five days after Saint Mary’s scraped out a 62-58 win over the Bulldogs, giving the Gaels three wins in four tries over their archrival from the West Coast Conference.

SEATTLE – Two weeks before position players report to spring training in Peoria, Arizona, Jerry Dipoto acknowledged that there won’t be many new names among them …

Weems is one of the nation’s best junior college basketball players and will almost certainly be a National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) All-American this winter in his sophomore year.

A GRIP ON SPORTS • There once was a time in the Inland Northwest when a snowstorm in early February would have been just another slog in a winter of them. But recently, the first big one of the season usually hits later, as it did overnight. And causes everyone to look around and marvel. Where has it been?

From staff reports

From staff reports

For the past decade, the Central Valley and Mead girls basketball teams have resided at the top of the Greater Spokane League, and one or both usually end up playing on Saturday at the state tournament.

PULLMAN – On Saturday morning, hours before Washington State was set to take on San Francisco on the road, Nate Calmese relayed a message to athletic trainer Hailey Haukeli.

The roller coaster continues for Gonzaga basketball.

If Gonzaga coach Mark Few had his druthers, the schedule for the Zags’ and every other West Coast Conference team in action this week – and most weeks – would look different. Same for Saint Mary’s coach Randy Bennett.

Throughout the winter, the Mariners fielded multiple trade offers for veteran right-hander Luis Castillo that Jerry Dipoto said were worthy of consideration. "We had more than a few deals that made you scratch your head and say, 'Hey, what do you think, guys?'" Dipoto, the club's president of baseball operations, said in a conference call Monday afternoon. 

He’s 190 pounds, which is 25 more than he was at this time last year. He’s also an adult, something the 18-year-old Demond Williams Jr. couldn’t say last Feb. 3.

SEATTLE – The tempers died down, and the outrage over hockey law seemingly misapplied faded after a good night’s sleep. Similar goaltender interference challenges had opposite outcomes for Seattle and Calgary on Sunday night during a 3-2 Kraken loss – to the boos of the Climate Pledge Arena crowd.