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Football still a good investment

Surely a joke could be made that had Kurt Schulz focused on soccer and ignored football he wouldn’t be living in Buffalo, N.Y., right now. He has the same thoughts, but it’s not because Buffalo is a tag line for late night comedians.
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Anticlimactic Highlander

The Highlander Invitational was a place for rivalries to continue, but there wasn’t much sizzle in the showdowns Saturday at Shadle Park High School. None of the seven races came down to a homestretch sprint and the headline event, the varsity girls, was the biggest blowout of all.
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Anticlimatic Highlander

The Highlander Invitational was a place for rivalries to continue, but there wasn’t much sizzle in the showdowns Saturday at Shadle Park High School. None of the seven races came down to a homestretch sprint and the headline event, the varsity girls, was the biggest blowout of all.
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Bears overcome injury-ravaged Tigers with special teams

Maybe Lewis and Clark used up all its good karma on the way to the State 4A football championship last year, but to use that as an excuse for the Tigers’ 33-21 loss at Central Valley Friday night would be selling the Bears short. In a matchup of unbeaten Greater Spokane League teams that traditionally slug it out, superior special teams – and a rapidly growing LC injury list – gave CV the edge before a full house at Sig T. Hanson Field.
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Playing up pays off not only in dollars

Cash and an opportunity. That’s what Eastern Washington took for the first two weeks of the college football season and what the Eagles will give today to Western Washington.
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Winning field goal

NEWPORT, Wash. – Newport upgraded Don Ellersick Memorial Field on a shoe string. Make that several shoe strings and an amazing community effort. A state-of-the-art track was the center of attention at a short dedication ceremony Friday night prior to the Grizzlies’ season-opening football game. The symbolic start of the fund-raising came from the track program selling shoe strings and the dream was realized by tying together the school district, city and county.
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No longer coaching, but happily involved

For someone who went from knocking on the door of the penthouse to, well, the outhouse – and then was displaced from her house – Cindy Fredrick sounds completely at ease. Sure, she misses Washington State, which she took to within one match of a berth in the NCAA women’s volleyball final four in 2002, and has second thoughts about going to Iowa for a dismal four seasons before she resigned last December.
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Bull rider sees red

With the possibility of losing upward of $100,000, Zack Oakes is fighting back. The target is the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and the bull rider who lives in Elk, Wash., isn’t happy, to say the least.
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No looking back

For a fleeting moment, the memories stirred before Justin Strand snapped back to reality. “I’m not competitive in athletics at this time, though I do think about it when I’m watching the Olympics,” he said. “Other than chasing my children around the backyard, that’s it. I put all my energy into my job and my family. There isn’t a lot of time for anything else.” Not that he’s complaining.
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Northeast 2B welcomes Colfax

Davenport is no longer the only Gorilla in the area. Colfax, a dominant member of the Northeast A, joins the Northeast 2B for football and the Bi-County League for all other sports this fall.
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EWU Hall of Famer, longtime fan Carpine dies

Eastern Washington University Hall of Famer and super fan Tony Carpine, who died Wednesday, was all about food, whether it was food for thought or to curb an appetite. “Food was his thing,” Marc Hughes, Eagles golf coach and athletic department special events coordinator said. “He was part of a different generation. The thought of exchanging money for food escaped him. If someone needed food, he went and got it for free. He had built up such an extensive network, he could pull that off.”
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Ogata delivers winner

Tim Hulett wanted to make something happen, Jason Ogata made it happen. The Spokane Indians’ manager called for a hit-and-run play in the bottom of the ninth and his second baseman drilled a one-out double to score Jared Bolden from first base and treat the largest Avista Stadium crowd of the season, 7,068, to an early fireworks display with a 5-4 win over Yakima Saturday night.
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Picture-perfect Frame

Hank Frame was a champion in his mother’s eyes before he ever teed it up at the Washington Junior Golf Association state tournament in Spokane this week. No surprise there.
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Bears show uncommon grit by cooling off Indians

It’s hard to image there was an 18-game difference between the Spokane Indians and Yakima Bears heading into Thursday night’s Northwest League baseball game at Avista Stadium. The hapless – as in a league-worst 15-28 record – Bears used timely hitting and solid pitching to put a 5-1 dent in the armor of the Indians (32-11), who played the field like a last-place team.
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Bingo and baseball

The memories of the 1967 American Legion Baseball state tournament are a little sketchy. Not only has a lot of time passed since Tim Hess was a member of the last Spokane team to win state at the highest level of summer baseball, but he has also seen a few games since then. “There have been so many games,” Hess said. “My son played high school, college, summer ball. I’ve probably watched like 500 games.”
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Fond memories of Spokane

George Gross’ baseball career ended in Spokane twice but he doesn’t have a bad thing to say about his time here, though it could be said that was a painful time in his life. Gross, drafted out of the University of Delaware in 1977, was a first baseman for Houston’s Triple A team in Tucson, Ariz., when he was hit in the face by a pitch in a 1980 game against the Indians. He ended up in a Spokane hospital for eight days and though he tried to return, his career ended in 1981.
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McKay still has a lot to ad

What Patrick McKay absorbed – not to be confused with learned – on the football fields at Gonzaga Prep more than two decades ago led him to be a Super Bowl MVP in his field - not to be confused with on the field. McKay, who graduated from Gonzaga Prep in 1986, won an Emmy in 2005 for an Ameriquest Mortgage commercial that debuted during the Super Bowl.
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Lifelong passion: Then & Now with Bridget McKay

Bridget McKay is in the perfect position to appreciate how she got there. The 1990 Gonzaga Prep graduate is an assistant softball coach at UC San Diego, which just completed its most successful season with an appearance in the NCAA Division II playoffs.
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Senior Pirates reminisce

They've gathered for a hall of fame induction or two, but it probably says more that they met for lunch just because, well, because they could and because Coach was coming to town. So it was on Tuesday, when 17 former Whitworth football players, showed up to say hi to Sam Adams.
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Then & Now: Hoopfest with Jeff Miller

Maybe it isn't the knees that go first. Jeff Miller, former Cheney High star and Eastern Washington Eagle, is lacing up the sneaks for his 19th Hoopfest, but when pressed on the subject he couldn't remember the best team name he and Clay Henry had come up with over the years. "Clay comes over some afternoon in March and we think up a name," said Miller, who just completed his 19th year as the East Valley principal.
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Chewelah girls bring home championship

The magnitude of what transpired at Mt. Tahoma High School over Memorial Day weekend hit Pat Kostecka Tuesday afternoon. As he was packing up the hurdles for the season, the Chewelah coach was once again struck by the dirt track with weeds and grass growing through it. It is an unlikely home for a state championship team, especially one built on the speed and timing of relays.
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LC sets high marks at state track meet

Eleanor Siler of Lewis and Clark won the 4A state 400-meter title by what amounts to a mile in the one-lap race, a full second over the second-place finisher. Her time of 55.62-seconds ties her for 22nd on the list of the fastest 400 runners in state history.
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NC champs keep goals on track

The State 3A boys track championship North Central clinched Saturday at Edgar Brown Stadium in Pasco was predicted months before. "Coach kept encouraging us all year," junior distance runner Leon Dean said. "He told us if everything went right we had a chance to score 90 to 100 points, so when things went wrong, we still had all those points for a cushion."
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Javelin throwers put on a show

PASCO – By the time Jacob Wilson broke the State 4A javelin record it was already gone, courtesy of Wes Nolen. When Nolen managed to throw beyond the old state best it wasn't there any more, courtesy of Wilson.
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NC leads the way

PASCO – Gold was the goal from the beginning for David Butler and the North Central track team. Things went quite smoothly for Butler, other than the normal aches and pains of a long season, and on Saturday he achieved all of his goals in winning the State 3A 110-meter hurdles on John Crawford Track.