Sports

SEATTLE – The lead in the American League West standings belongs to the team that has won the division six out of the past seven seasons.

As the majority of guests settled into their seats for the Big Sky Conference Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Saturday night, a swath of name tags sat unclaimed until the final minutes before the program began.

SEATTLE – It’s hard to be diplomatic and direct all at once, yet somehow Cal Raleigh found a way.

VANCOUVER, B.C. – After a back-and-forth affair, the top of the order came though in the ninth inning and the Spokane Indians outlasted the Vancouver Canadians 8-6 at Nat Bailey Stadium on Saturday.

PULLMAN – The first Washington State football season under a new reality, without the Pac-12 as we know it, is about a month away.

TROON, Scotland – Billy Horschel has this way of prefacing sentences with a single word. A pop. He wants your attention. He wants you to understand him. So he begins.

The Furrer family forked out $4,000 for a blue Anschutz .22-cal. competition rifle some 20 years ago.

TROON, Scotland – Thriston Lawrence’s voice cracked as he recalled the path here. How the South African flew overseas to test his level against the best in America only to make one cut in six weeks. How the doubt that this cold, unforgiving game creates can permeate even the strongest of wills.

About the Globe Trotter series: The Spokesman-Review is planning to connect periodically with Gonzaga coach Mark Few to highlight his on- and off-court experience as an assistant coach with the U.S. Olympic basketball team.

Russell Grove isn’t at 100 percent due to an undiagnosed shoulder issue, but you’d never know it by looking at his scorecards. Grove has pretty much left his driver in the bag and relied on hitting fairways, his short game and putter to do the heavy lifting through two rounds of the 37th Rosauers Open Invitational.

A GRIP ON SPORTS • Every Mariner fan old enough to be elected president remembers the glorious year of 1995. The first playoff season. When the M’s ran down the collapsing Angels, coming from way back with some of the more valued moments in franchise history. What a year. Funny, though. It’s not as exciting to be the Angels.

From staff reports

Spokane’s Andrew Von Lossow and the University of Idaho’s Dalton Dean led a strong showing by area amateurs in Friday’s first round of the 37th Rosauers Open Invitational.Von Lossow and Dean each birdied all three par-5s and carded 6-under 65s at Indian Canyon Golf Course to move to the top of a crowded leaderboard. Amateur Nate Plaster, who recently played at Washington State, is one of six players trailing the co-leaders by one stroke.

Gray wolves in Washington will remain on the state’s endangered species list.

TROON, Scotland – Near the end of his brief remarks Friday as he began to exit this 152nd British Open, Tiger Woods ran across a case of cross-accent confusion.

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From staff reports