Prep sports get back in the swing tonight after two weeks off for the holidays. Ten teams will hit the courts or mats this evening with Pullman boys and girls basketball teams hosting Medical Lake. The Garfield-Palouse basketball teams are headed to Potlatch and Tekoa-Oakesdale teams hosting St. George’s. Genesee boys will host Grangeville while [...]
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
With winter breaks and snow days on the horizon, it is no surprise that prep sports are slowing down. They have not ceased but they will, briefly, over the Christmas and New Year holidays. The stoppage will only go so far as to stop games from going on. Parents will still have to shuttle athletes to [...]
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Last night I watched my first wrestling match of the season and it reawakened my enjoyment of the sport. Growing up around serious wrestlers and attending a high school where girls, generally, fought over wrestlers the way other high school girls fight over football players, I absorbed enough mat time to enjoy it. And last night [...]
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Yesterday I saw a dozen people in shorts. My first thought was, “Do these people know it is December?” and my second was, “Maybe they’re from somewhere much colder than here.” In any case, with the earnest beginning of basketball season, I am always reminded of the dire warnings my mother told me during my years playing [...]
Monday, December 1, 2008
Welcome to the first prep blog of December. With the conclusion of all fall-related sports, we move on to the indoor sports of winter: basketball and wrestling. This week there are 34 basketball games scheduled and one wrestling meet. A busy week to say the least. I know basketball is king here and I come from an [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008
I am thrilled to be covering a local Palouse high school team at the end of November. Colfax will face Asotin at 1 p.m. in Martin Stadium on Saturday. The Bulldogs are the sole survivors of the high school playoffs and are going into the game with an 11-0 record. Despite the predicted awful weather (which I [...]
Saturday, November 22, 2008
The Greyhounds are facing a team that is essentially a carbon copy of themselves in Burlington-Edison on Saturday. “It’s like looking in the mirror,” Pullman coach Bill Peterson said. Peterson said Burlington-Edison doesn’t have any star players but does boast three running backs and a quarterback that can run well. On the other side of the ball, Burlington-Edison [...]
Monday, November 17, 2008
Most sports offered at the high school level are team sports, with a few individual sports that are cleverly disguised as team sports thanks to the inclusion of “team scores.” At the end of every season, sports writers get lists of players who stood out in the crowd and were named to some sort of All-Something [...]
Saturday, November 15, 2008
In discussions with fellow sports fans, I am often struck by how often we circle around the season-ending moments. It seems there are two distinct parties about what is an appropriate response the end of a season without a much-desired title of some kind. One camp is pro “buck-up and take it” while the other believes [...]
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Some athletes are incredibly gifted. It seems they have a great game every game. When the time comes, hopefully some of those athletes will find themselves in a position to continue their playing careers in college. In light of recent events, I have to wonder if college is always enhanced by an athletic experience. I was [...]
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
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