I have seen several games won or lost with a buzzer beating shot and the feeling is always the same. The team who gets the win is thrilled while the team handed the loss is crushed. I know there is always a team that has to lose but I am continually surprised by the let-down I [...]
Friday, January 23, 2009
This is my first season covering basketball and wrestling in the Palouse and I have to admit I am loving the level of play I am watching in both sports. Tonight I watched some excellent wrestling at the Pullman dual against Medical Lake and took some basketball score reporting calls that knocked my socks off. Much has [...]
Sunday, January 18, 2009
In recording this week’s prep scores something peculiar stood out amongst the calls: the final scores of several games showed huge margins of victory. Before this week that is an occurrence I have yet to observe in covering sports. I figure there are two possibilities for the disparity. First, it is possible that teams playing each [...]
Monday, January 12, 2009
Sometimes I don’t get to write about team efforts. Sometimes it is one person pulling for their team. But this weekend, it was teams which had the most success. The more I observe sports and write about them, the more I see that success is usually directly linked to several players having a good showing in [...]
Saturday, January 10, 2009
After attending several high school sports events, I have noticed a distinct lack of attendance by the student bodies of some schools. And I have to say I am disappointed. To a certain extent, sports are only as good as the audience demands. If there is no audience or the audience present is not overly interested [...]
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
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 [...]
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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