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Chiefs dispatch first-place Ams without standouts

Now this was something to write from home about. Whether by cell phone or cyberspace, the Spokane Chiefs had good news – make it great news – to share with their absent teammates Saturday night as their Western Hockey League season resumed after the holiday break.
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Holmgren savors this day

SEATTLE – So who scripted this? For Mike Holmgren’s Seattle farewell, they imported his old quarterback and the weather from Green Bay, Wis. Ralph Edwards never pulled out this many stops on “This is Your Life.”
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Zags coast past TSU

Before the Battle in Seattle, the Blizzard in Spokane. Fans – at least 4,500 of the usual sellout 6,000 – dug themselves out of the drifts to get to McCarthey Athletic Center on Thursday night to see more of what they’d been experiencing outside.
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Horn sounds giddy about the Grizzlies

Levi Horn was on the phone with someone from his hometown as a teammate, J.D. Quinn, pulled on his other ear. “It’s from Spokane,” Horn told the pestering Quinn.
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Hot reads for cold weekend

You never know. But I do. •Where he’s headed, O.J. Simpson has his best chance yet of bumping into the real killer.
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Braden racing into elite club

To Forest Braden, there’s something about being a man in uniform. Which is just one of several reasons he’s been looking forward to today’s USATF Club Cross Country Championships at Plantes Ferry Park. He’s in a club. At least he thinks he is.
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Bulldogs, Cougars rivalry something to cherish

Sides have already been taken, and not only on reflex allegiances to what it might say on a uniform or a diploma. One thinks the other guys have only a nodding acquaintance with the art of defending. One hates it that the other team rides the brakes. Undisciplined, they say. Shoot it already, comes the reply. Gad, we’re sick of the media shoving you down our throats. Make the tournament every year for a decade and then complain.
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Only time will tell for Sarkisian

Funny, Steve Sarkisian doesn’t look black. But apparently he is, if I’m correct in parsing Tyrone Willingham’s remarks as the University of Washington’s ex-at-last football coach turned the keys over to the coach-elect this week.
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Zags get their latest basketball jones in Indy

The fascination with paying for a seat in one area code to watch a basketball game being played in another still eludes many of us, but then so do the concepts of “reality” television and $150 sneakers. Don’t worry. This will not be a paean to the good old days of manual typewriters and Pong.
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Third town was the charm

This is the Lonesome End, revisited. Not-So-Lonesome, actually – there are two of them. Also, they are very much a part of a team and a tradition which three months ago had nothing to do with them.
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Long shot catches on

So here was the lineup for “The Ed Sullivan Show” on Nov. 25, 1962: Tony Bennett, with “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” still on the Billboard 100. Rosemary Clooney. Anthony Quinn, fresh from “Requiem for a Heavyweight.” Jackie Mason, of course – wasn’t he on every week? The Hugh Lambert Dancers.
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Toasting, err, roasting the ’08 Apple Cup

Trying to wedge himself into Apple Cup lore, a 1988 graduate of Washington State named Mitch Cooper launched an Internet petition asking Fox Sports Northwest to not televise this year’s game. Imagine if it succeeded. Imagine surfing through the cable lineup today looking for another game and landing on Channel 60 to find in progress …
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New manager? OK, but this is still about the new GM

Selling his new managerial hire to the press on Wednesday, Seattle Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik made much of the fact that Don Wakamatsu had played or coached in every organization in the American League West, the insinuation being that he’ll have trenchant insights into the M’s rivals. Yet when asked, from his viewpoint as bench coach for the Oakland A’s, what went wrong with the 2008 Mariners, Wakamatsu did everything but plead the fifth and slide out the alley door.
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Cougs romp in opener

PULLMAN – There came a time during Washington State’s basketball opener Saturday night when coach Tony Bennett challenged his team to “play against the game.” Good advice, considering the Cougars had long since beaten the opponent.
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Ten years, few cheers

MOSCOW, Idaho – On further review, it may have been wiser not to suppress the pregame fight. Perhaps that was something Idaho could have won Saturday.
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Pargo knows it’s put-up time

Jeremy Pargo could have said eager, but instead characterized himself as being anxious – and so we’ll take him at his word. His final basketball season at Gonzaga University begins, or starts counting, tonight. He’s anxious.
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Non-returnable

PULLMAN – Arizona’s Mike Thomas came into Saturday’s game at Martin Stadium as the Pac-10 conference’s third-best punt returner, averaging 13.4 yards every time he fielded the ball. The Wildcats, as a team, led the conference with a 19.1 average, including an 87-yarder for a score by Marquis Hundley.
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Some credit where it’s due

PULLMAN – The man whose graceful sentences long ago occupied this space – and may he rest in peace – used to take some good-natured barbs from the unaffiliated readers out there that he could gild whatever sort of loss Washington State might suffer on any given football Saturday. Simply, he didn’t view looking for the bright spot as a shortcoming. Amazing, isn’t it?
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Green’s circle runs back through Spokane

On the Spokane Chiefs’ franchise timeline, the day – Jan. 26, 1990 – may still rank tops for trauma. It’s the day they traded Travis Green, the hockey club’s all-time scoring leader at the time.