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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

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A Grip on Sports: Rarely does looking back ever lead to anything other than walking into a brick wall but it is our fate today to do just that

A GRIP ON SPORTS • This time of year we really try to look forward. To the weekend, where the temps are supposed to be in the, gasp, high 60s. To next month, with all that April offers, from showers to flowers to Masters. To the summer, with the lake and sun tans and long walks. But today we are forced to look back about 24 hours before we can cast our gaze ahead. Darn it.

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A Grip on Sports: The double play in Cheney this winter was a thing of beauty unless you happen to root for another Big Sky school

A GRIP ON SPORTS • We know a couple Eastern Washington men’s basketball season ticket holders. They sit down near the court and quietly express their joy in watching their alma mater race past Big Sky Conference foes that once used to consider a stop in Cheney a respite. It may be cold outside but the dish of red-hot revenge must taste better than even the excellent concession-stand popcorn.

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A Grip on Sports: With everything that happened Saturday night, we are finally over having to worry about Bracketology

A GRIP ON SPORTS • We thought a long time about hardly touching Saturday’s college basketball results in today’s column. Maybe write about the Sounders’ inability to score and how it’s undermining years of goodwill. Or how we didn’t win any writing awards again. Or maybe we would take a look at the NFL Combine’s quarterback day. But, nah. It’s the best time of year. And we’re obligated to deal with it.

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A Grip on Sports: In case you were wondering, yes, this may be the most impressive college hoop season the Inland Northwest has ever experienced

A GRIP ON SPORTS • What were you doing in 2008? Were you in school, maybe in an elementary classroom somewhere, dreaming of the day you would be golfing with Tiger Woods weekly on the revered PGA Tour? Or were you this close to retirement, hoping to spend at least half the year in someplace warm? Some place in the wide in-between?