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Vince Grippi

Vince Grippi

Current Position: Sports columnist

Vince Grippi is a freelance local sports blogger for spokesman.com.

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A Grip on Sports: For the first time, and the most opportune time, someone from Spokane has reached the pinnacle of professional poker

A GRIP ON SPORTS • The 2000s were an interesting time. Johnny Depp was a box office draw, not a cologne pitch man. The biggest rapper was a dude from outside Detroit. The Mariners started the decade with a record-tying season but it was the Yankees and Red Sox that won the most flags. And most everyone was glued to ESPN in the summer, watching the World Series of Poker’s main event.
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A Grip on Sports: It doesn’t matter what happens later, college football practice is really getting going this week and everyone has a shot at a big prize

A GRIP ON SPORTS • It’s pretty easy to see college football is about to begin. And we’re not talking about the smoke in the air, which has accompanied the start of each season’s practice for the past decade or so. Mostly it is a numbers game. As in the number of stories with a college football bent we read this morning.
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A Grip on Sports: No server farms were tapped to help in the creation of today’s column, though how would we know?

A GRIP ON SPORTS • It’s entirely possible to use AI for just about anything these days. Heck, my son spent some time the other day writing the skeleton of a screenplay just using Google’s version. Which makes me sure there are some readers out there contemplating giving the AI Guy a shot at summarizing their sports news in the morning. But can he do this?
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A Grip on Sports: There are days – today is one – when games have to take a back seat and let events of the past 24 hours drive the discussion

A GRIP ON SPORTS • It seems almost sacrilegious to be blathering about sports this morning, considering what has gone on in the Spokane area the past 24 hours. Though we understand why you click on this column each morning. But before we get to the M’s and the Cougars and the like, I would like to spend a few moments acknowledging the devastation and loss.