Greg Lee

The Lake City High boys track team has yet to capture a state trophy since the school opened in 1994. It's been 16 years since the Coeur d'Alene girls claimed a state trophy. Both the Lake City boys and Coeur d'Alene girls could break through at the State 5A meet this spring.

University of Idaho women's basketball coach Mike Divilbiss resigned Friday after seven seasons. His resignation comes a little more than a week after athletic director Rob Spear fired men's coach George Pfeifer.

Coeur d'Alene High junior Kama Griffitts has been named the All-Idaho 5A player of the year by the Idaho Statesman newspaper in Boise. The Boise newspaper selects All-Idaho teams each year based on votes of coaches statewide.

MOSCOW, Idaho – Don Verlin already had a head coaching job in his hip pocket. A deal was struck this winter guaranteeing Verlin the position at Utah State when Stew Morrill, who became the winningest men's basketball coach in school history this year, finished.

Spring football at the University of Idaho might as well be called Football 101 because the Vandals are going to focus on the basics. Second-year Idaho coach Robb Akey plans to stress fundamentals, fundamentals and more fundamentals when he convenes spring drills at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Saying he did so with much reluctance, Jim Thacker resigned as Lake City High boys basketball coach Tuesday after three seasons. "If I would have thought about it, I probably would have resigned a couple of days (ago), on the Ides of March, because I pretty much feel like Julius Caesar a little bit," Thacker, 60, said. "I think I've done what was asked there. I've come in and I think I've elevated the program. I pretty much did what they wanted me to."

The South boys and girls were too much for the North in the fifth annual Idaho High School All-Star Basketball games for seniors Saturday afternoon. The South girls, taking advantage of size, opened an early lead and never relented in an 80-57 victory at North Idaho College's Rolly Williams Court.

On a number of levels, Idaho men's basketball coach George Pfeifer is tickled that his team garnered the sixth seed in the Western Athletic Conference tournament. At times the Vandals have been competitive with every WAC team this season. What makes Idaho's quarterfinal matchup tonight difficult isn't so much that it is against the third seed. It's the fact that the Vandals face defending tourney champ New Mexico State on its home court – the site of Idaho's worst conference defeat.

In any other year, the Post Falls High baseball team probably would have qualified for the State 5A tournament last season. But last year wasn't a typical season. The eventual state champ (Lake City) and runner-up (Lewiston) came from the Inland Empire League.

MOSCOW, Idaho – As it turned out, the Utah State Aggies had more to play for Saturday than the Idaho Vandals. Utah State captured the No. 1 seed in the Western Athletic Conference tournament with a telling 78-58 victory before a crowd of 1,383 at the Cowan Spectrum in the regular-season finale.

Coeur d'Alene High boys basketball coach Kent Leiss would have lost a bet predicting how his team would fare this year. He just wanted his team to qualify for state. To play for a state championship was beyond his wildest imagination before the season started.

MOSCOW, Idaho – Whether at play or at work, Michael Crowell goes by his own beat. The 6-foot-7 Idaho senior forward wants to pursue a business he started with his younger brother, Demetrius. Using computer software for mixing and creating beats, they produce music of all varieties. They have a MySpace page to promote their venture.