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John Blanchette

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Sports >  Gonzaga basketball

Blanchette: Chilling lesson for WCC

When Edward Snowden or Julian Assange leaked the NCAA Tournament bracket over Twitter, Charles Barkley was still on CBS trying to distinguish Virginia Commonwealth from the Virginia ham he’d had with his breakfast eggs. And now no matter how the games turn out, March Madness 2016 will be notorious for – sorry – Se-leak-tion Sunday.
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Blanchette: Bulldogs, Zag nation breathe sigh of relief

In the confetti squall and general delirium at Orleans Arena on Tuesday night, Gonzaga coach Mark Few came face to face with Jonathan Fierro, the ramrod of the HBO crew which has had its lenses and microphones in every inch of airspace surrounding the Bulldogs the last few weeks as their cable serial has unfolded.
Sports >  Gonzaga basketball

GU blows past Mountaineers; Bahamas next

Another blowout and now on to the Bahamas. Domantas Sabonis and Silas Melson scored 15 points each to lead six Gonzaga scorers in double figures and the Bulldogs -- college basketball's 10th-ranked team -- overcame a turnover-filled first half to romp past Mount St. Mary's 101-56 at the McCarthey Athletic Center on Saturday night.
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Blanchette: Seahawks a dynasty that never developed

SEATTLE – Back in the era of good feelings after Super Bowl XLVIII, much oxygen and bandwidth were expended on the concept of dynasty and how it applied to the newly crowned champions of football, the Seattle Seahawks. Time, hubris and the inexorable grind of competition have pretty much buried that notion. Also, shopping for offensive lineman along the North Monroe antique/thrift corridor has not helped.
Sports >  Gonzaga basketball

Blanchette: Bell and Pangos left important legacy

In the spring of 2000 – still at the beginning of things, in the modest scope of Millenial Zag – Matt Santangelo, Richie Frahm, Mike Nilson and Ryan Floyd departed the Gonzaga basketball program in the greatest exodus of backcourt achievement in Inland Northwest college basketball history.
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Blanchette: Nothing inadvertent about Cougs’ toughness

Everyone had settled in for an afternoon of the Washington State Cougars trying to unknot the laces of the left and right shoes they’d apparently tied together when came this announcement from referee Mark Duddy: “Inadvertently,” he told the Dad’s Day crowd at Martin Stadium, “we need to replay fourth down.”