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Countdown to camp: What is WSU QB John Mateer’s ceiling?

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PULLMAN – Here is the third installment of our countdown to Washington State fall camp, which starts on July 31. This issue covers the Cougars’ presumptive starting quarterback.

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‘My life was chaos’: Hooptown HoF inductee Tammy Tibbles, a former Gonzaga and Creston star, used basketball as a great escape

'Step away from the spotlight': The pressure is off Adam Morrison, but his basketball dreams remain as he enters Hooptown HoF
An architect of Hooptown USA, former G-Prep and WSU standout Terry Kelly takes place in area basketball HoF
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Countdown to camp: What is WSU QB John Mateer’s ceiling?

Updated 57 minutes ago

Gonzaga basketball star Yvonne Ejim earns spot on Team Canada for 2024 Olympic Games

Former WSU wing Jaylen Wells totals 8 points, key charge as Grizzlies drop Summer League title game

Updated 8:24 p.m.

Big Sky Conference football: A new ESPN deal, FCS playoff changes, and the ramifications of the House v. NCAA settlement

Updated 6 p.m.

Meet the potato: Idaho, ready to get back to business, introduces new rivalry trophy at Big Sky media day

Updated 8:54 p.m.

Spokane Youth Sports Awards honors exceptional athletes across metro, region

Escaping life’s cares in the Wallowas

Ty France’s time with the Mariners appears to be over: ‘It’s been a weird, hard day’

Updated 8:30 p.m.

Spokane Indians come back late, but lose series final to Vancouver in walk-off

Spokane Soccer

Shavon John-Brown scores difficult goal to lead Central Valley over Spokane Velocity 1-0

Analysis: Ahead of Seahawks training camp, defining Jaxon Smith-Njigba’s role and other unanswered questions

Updated 5:51 p.m.

Women’s basketball: Former WSU All-Pac-12 guard Charlisse Leger-Walker commits to UCLA

Eastern Washington men’s basketball releases schedule, will face WSU and former coach on Nov. 21

Idaho basketball

EWU’s Erik Meyer, Idaho’s Orlando Lightfoot inducted into Big Sky Hall of Fame

Washington’s budget forecast provides clues to Big Ten revenue distributions as an 18-team conference

UW basketball

Commentary: Here’s the Great mystery with Danny Sprinkle’s UW men’s basketball roster

Chandler Stephenson’s deal about broader Kraken goals rather than dollar value

Spokane Chiefs name Brad Lauer coach; WHL’s all-time leader in win percentage

Former Whitworth coach Matt Logie leads Montana State to NCAA Tournament in first year on job

Amateur Andrew Von Lossow claims Rosauers Open title with birdie on 18th hole

Always chasing a challenge, Gonzaga’s Wil Smith set to run 10,000 meters at U.S. Olympic Trials

Sounders

Jordan Morris leads Sounders past Austin FC to fourth-straight MLS win

Jon Wilner

Hotline mailbag: Here’s how the 2024 Pac-12 football race would have looked

Greatest Spokane League

Greatest Spokane League: From Shadle Park to Central Valley, GSL girls have earned 18 basketball championships in 33 years

What if?

John Blanchette: Looking at the great ‘what if’ had the Spokane Indians remained a Triple-A team

Gone, but not Forgotten

Out of the rough: Despite shoestring budget, EWU men’s golf made run for top of Big Sky before program was cut

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Mon., July 22, 2024

Tuesday’s TV Highlights

Sports > Seattle Mariners

Putrid offense, shaky bullpen doom Mariners in loss to Angels

UPDATED: Mon., July 22, 2024

SEATTLE – With an offense that is somewhere between putrid to unwatchable and incapable of showing anything close to consistent production, the Mariners pitching doesn’t need to be perfect, but something close to it.

Sports > WSU football

Countdown to camp: What is WSU QB John Mateer’s ceiling?

UPDATED: Mon., July 22, 2024

PULLMAN – Here is the third installment of our countdown to Washington State fall camp, which starts on July 31. This issue covers the Cougars’ presumptive starting quarterback.

Sports > Seattle Mariners

Julio Rodriguez out of Mariners lineup but injured ankle is ‘doing OK’

UPDATED: Mon., July 22, 2024

SEATTLE – A day after crashing into the wall in center field, Julio Rodriguez was out of the Mariners’ lineup for the series opener against the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night.

Sports > WSU basketball

Former WSU wing Jaylen Wells totals 8 points, key charge as Grizzlies drop Summer League title game

UPDATED: Mon., July 22, 2024

PULLMAN – Jaylen Wells’ first run as a pro has come to an end.

Sports > Seattle Mariners

Ty France’s time with the Mariners appears to be over: ‘It’s been a weird, hard day’

UPDATED: Mon., July 22, 2024

SEATTLE – Ty France sat in front of his locker right as you enter the Mariners clubhouse, staring at his phone and trying not to think about his uncertain future.

Sports > International sports

The evolution of Katie Ledecky: As Olympics near, U.S. star comes full circle

UPDATED: Mon., July 22, 2024

In April, Bruce Gemmell received a phone call from someone who had changed his life more than a decade ago. They text frequently, so it wasn’t strange to hear from her. But what she asked of him made him laugh.

Sports > Seattle Seahawks

Analysis: Ahead of Seahawks training camp, defining Jaxon Smith-Njigba’s role and other unanswered questions

UPDATED: Mon., July 22, 2024

Monday was the day for Seattle’s veterans to report to the Virginia Mason Athletic Center as the Seahawks prepare for what should be a revealing training camp under first-year coach Mike Macdonald.

Sports > EWU football

Big Sky Conference football: A new ESPN deal, FCS playoff changes, and the ramifications of the House v. NCAA settlement

UPDATED: Mon., July 22, 2024

The Big Sky Conference extended its broadcasting deal with ESPN through 2030, league commissioner Tom Wistrcill announced Monday.

Sports > EWU football

Meet the potato: Idaho, ready to get back to business, introduces new rivalry trophy at Big Sky media day

UPDATED: Mon., July 22, 2024

Nineteen-and-a-half-pounds of lacquered Douglas fir shaped like a giant spud and resting atop a wood base dominated the University of Idaho’s table at the Big Sky Conference Football Kickoff media day.

Sports

A Grip on Sports: Questions abound on this Monday but answers are a lot harder to come by

Mon., July 22, 2024

A GRIP ON SPORTS • It’s never good to start a day or a week with more questions than answers but that’s the predicament in which we find ourselves on this fine Monday. We settled on a couple questions to discuss here. Answers? Not sure we have any definitive ones.

Sports

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Sun., July 21, 2024

Monday’s TV Highlights

Sports > WSU football

Countdown to camp: What can we expect from WSU’s edges?

UPDATED: Sun., July 21, 2024

Here is the second installment of our countdown to Washington State fall camp, which starts on July 31. This issue covers the Cougars’ edge rushers.

Sports > Seattle Mariners

Mariners take series finale against Astros to regain share of AL West lead

UPDATED: Sun., July 21, 2024

SEATTLE – Even before the Mariners earned what might have been their most important win of the year, Scott Servais received about as important of an answer as he could have wanted about the state of his team and how it would respond in the wake of the biggest crisis of the season.

Sports > Gonzaga basketball

Former Washington State standout Jaylen Wells scores 28 points, sends Memphis to Summer League finale

UPDATED: Sun., July 21, 2024

Jaylen Wells took it upon himself to make sure the Memphis Grizzlies got at least one more day at Las Vegas Summer League.

Sports > International sports

Tadej Pogacar Returns to the Top, Winning the Tour de France

UPDATED: Sun., July 21, 2024

When an athlete wins a championship two years in a row, but then slips to second the next two years, it’s fair to assume that he may be starting a downswing – that he is a cut below the new champion and that he will struggle to beat him in the years ahead.

Sports > EWU football

Eastern Washington football ranked No. 8 by coaches, No. 6 by media in Big Sky preseason poll

UPDATED: Sun., July 21, 2024

If Eastern Washington goes on to reach the FCS playoffs this year, it would be overachieving in doing so.

Sports > Spokane Indians

Spokane Indians come back late, but lose series final to Vancouver in walk-off

UPDATED: Sun., July 21, 2024

VANCOUVER, B.C. – Despite a furious late comeback, the Spokane Indians lost to the Vancouver Canadians 7-6 in the finale of a three-game Northwest League series at Nat Bailey Stadium on Sunday.

Sports > Golf

Xander Schauffele wins British Open, capturing his second major of the year

UPDATED: Sun., July 21, 2024

TROON, Scotland – On a course adjacent an airport, a 30-year-old golfer from San Diego seemed to leave the ground Sunday and commence gliding above as if oblivious to the fray below. His back nine, so artful and tranquil, felt almost as though he had used the runway just behind No. 10 to start floating overhead like one of those lazy-day planes, the engine barely audible but its hum clearly untouchable. In a callous sport with a furious week of weather, the clear winner wound up looking downright pristine.

Sports

A Grip on Sports: Time is the enemy in many regards but when it comes to grudges, not even years may scrub them clean

Sun., July 21, 2024

A GRIP ON SPORTS • It’s always odd for us to be working on the Sunday morning the British Open is being played. We want to watch. We have to write. Whatever we produce will be read all day, even after the final round is done. A final round we will write about tomorrow – trying to make it seem fresh. The vagaries of time and place biting us in the glutes once more.

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