Give and Take: Sunday letters

Zags brighten day

I do volunteer work usually once per week at the Spokane Veterans Hospital. I visit with Hospice and Community Living Center residents.

On Jan. 7, the entire Gonzaga men’s basketball team arrived to visit with the vets. They shook hands, gave autographs, posed for photos, and thanked the vets for their service.  I can tell you it made their day.

Interestingly, this was not a publicity activity. No newspaper or TV cameras, just a great group of student athletes giving back to the community that gives them so much support.

I can honestly say that both the Zags and the vets were the beneficiaries!

I know I’ll remember it.  I’m 6-foot-5, but standing next to Przemek Karnowski, I felt like a mouse.

Frank Sell

Spokane

More for EWU women

I understand your paper’s priorities – Cougars, Zags, Seahawks (when they’re a hot topic) and Huskies, not necessarily in any order. Anyone who’s lived around here forever gets that. The Chiefs will get some play on the first couple of pages on a slow basketball night.

The EWU men’s basketball team has gotten a lot of ink and justifiably so – they have made an amazing turnaround in the last few years and the future is very bright.

But the equally successful EWU women’s team, rarely gets much more than the small blip. The EWU women beat Big Sky opponent Portland St. 101-54 and they end up on page 6 with another small blip.

Page 6 is after the follow-up/continuation stories from page 1, stats and high school hoops and just before the obituaries.

I understand there is only so much space but maybe the priorities can be spread a little more equally.

Ron Snowden

Cheney

No offense to Noles

As I read the recent letter by Mr. Brian McInerney (Letters to the Editor, Jan. 11), I wondered how a person with such little sports acumen could make the assumption that the Florida State football fans or players would feel offended by being called the Noles.

I hope Mr. McInerney doesn’t get too confused when reading about the Cougs, Eags, and Zags. Or maybe I should call them the Cougars, Eagles and Bulldogs.

If Mr. McInerney wishes to express an obvious political opinion, then he should write to the news editor, not the sports editor.

Tom Johnson

Spokane Valley

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