Sports

Opening of Whitworth Athletic Leadership Team Center a bright spot for Pirates

UPDATED: 11:05 p.m.

In a season of social distancing, there is irony in the Whitworth athletics department celebrating the fact that nearly all their coaches can now – after years spent in five different buildings – be together under the same roof.

Golf

Clarkston native Joel Dahmen closes with 67 for top-10 finish at PGA Championship

UPDATED: 11:04 p.m.

Sports

Analysis: What can the Seahawks expect from their 2019 draft picks in 2020?

UPDATED: 11:04 p.m.

Sports

Locally: Valarie Allman breaks American women’s discus record at Iron Wood Invitational

UPDATED: 11:02 p.m.

Sports

20 for 20: Ranking Community Colleges of Spokane’s top 20 athletes since 2000

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Sports

Leaders of Pac-12 player movement left ‘disappointed’ after meeting with commissioner

UPDATED: 9:50 p.m.

Sports

Analysis: Coronavirus derailed good things for Eastern Washington athletics

UPDATED: 9:49 p.m.

Gonzaga

Gonzaga holds steady in rankings, NCAA title odds post early-entry deadline

UPDATED: Wed., Aug. 5, 2020

WSU football

Washington State collects six points in preseason Coaches Top 25 poll

UPDATED: Thu., Aug. 6, 2020

Gonzaga women

Gonzaga women’s basketball owes amped-up recruiting to blooming culture

UPDATED: Mon., July 13, 2020

Spokane Chiefs

Western Hockey League delays start of season until December 4

UPDATED: Thu., Aug. 6, 2020

High Schools

Idaho moves forward with fall prep sports; coaches plan for pandemic guidelines

UPDATED: Thu., Aug. 6, 2020

WSU basketball

Washington State’s CJ Elleby to keep name in NBA Draft, won’t return for junior season

UPDATED: Fri., July 31, 2020

EWU basketball

20 for 20: Ranking Eastern Washington’s top 20 athletes since 2000

UPDATED: Sun., July 19, 2020

Idaho basketball

20 for 20: Ranking Idaho’s top 20 athletes since 2000

Sun., July 26, 2020

EWU football

Analysis: Coronavirus derailed good things for Eastern Washington athletics

UPDATED: Sat., Aug. 8, 2020

UW football

Larry Stone: Washington’s Chris Petersen has no regrets – and he’s laser-focused on molding Seattle’s future business leaders

UPDATED: Sat., July 11, 2020

Idaho football

University of Idaho hasn’t given up on nonconference football this fall

UPDATED: Fri., Aug. 7, 2020

UW basketball

Washington basketball adds pair of transfers in North Idaho standout Nate Pryor, Wichita State’s Erik Stevenson

Wed., April 15, 2020

Whitworth

Whitworth athletics preps for busy spring slate, even with NCAA championships canceled for traditional fall sports

UPDATED: Wed., Aug. 5, 2020

Area sports

20 for 20: Ranking Community Colleges of Spokane’s top 20 athletes since 2000

Sun., Aug. 9, 2020

College football

UConn becomes 1st FBS program to cancel football over virus

UPDATED: Wed., Aug. 5, 2020

Outdoors

CaughtOvgard: Get over the rainbow

Sat., Aug. 1, 2020

Gonzaga athletics

WCC delays start of fall sports competition until Sept. 24

UPDATED: Thu., July 16, 2020

Mariners

Out of Right Field: First 15 games tell a lot about this current Mariners team; future remains unclear

Sun., Aug. 9, 2020

Seahawks

Analysis: What can the Seahawks expect from their 2019 draft picks in 2020?

UPDATED: Sun., Aug. 9, 2020

Sounders

Sounders set to resume MLS season on the road in late August, return to Seattle without fans on Aug. 30

UPDATED: Sat., Aug. 8, 2020

Spokane Indians

Spokane Indians baseball team, Spokane Tribe featured in national discussion of Native American imagery in sports

UPDATED: Mon., Aug. 3, 2020

UM Grizzlies

‘A really bitter pill’: Somber Montana Grizzlies try to find solace following season switch to spring

Fri., Aug. 7, 2020

Columnists

Tim Dahlberg: Tiger Woods positions himself for a major chase at PGA

UPDATED: Thu., Aug. 6, 2020

Blanchette: Rest easy, GU fans, well-intentioned 'Russell Rule' won't take away Tommy

Sports > Golf

Clarkston native Joel Dahmen closes with 67 for top-10 finish at PGA Championship

UPDATED: Sun., Aug. 9, 2020

Clarkston native Joel Dahmen shot four rounds in the 60s, hung around on the PGA Championship leaderboard throughout and posted his best finish in a major.

Sports

Opening of Whitworth Athletic Leadership Team Center a bright spot for Pirates

UPDATED: Sun., Aug. 9, 2020

Sports

Locally: Valarie Allman breaks American women’s discus record at Iron Wood Invitational

UPDATED: Sun., Aug. 9, 2020

The Iron Wood Throwers Center in Rathdrum, which has hosted some of the country’s top field athletes in recent years, was witness to an American women’s discus record on Aug. 1.

Sports

Analysis: What can the Seahawks expect from their 2019 draft picks in 2020?

UPDATED: Sun., Aug. 9, 2020

SEATTLE – The only questions for Seahawks receiver DK Metcalf entering his second season in the NFL are the fun kind – “Are, say, 70 catches and 1,000 or more yards realistic?”

Sports > Outdoors

Agencies in final stage of translocating mountain goats from Olympics to Cascades

Sun., Aug. 9, 2020

Starting July 27, a coalition of state and federal agencies, with support from local tribes, began the fourth and final two-week round of translocating mountain goats from Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest to the northern Cascade Mountains to meet wildlife management goals in all three areas.

Sports

20 for 20: Ranking Community Colleges of Spokane’s top 20 athletes since 2000

Sun., Aug. 9, 2020

Sometimes they’re major college material and sometimes not, but one thing’s for certain: the athletes of the Community Colleges of Spokane have the most interesting stories in the region.

Sports

Out of Right Field: First 15 games tell a lot about this current Mariners team; future remains unclear

Sun., Aug. 9, 2020

It usually takes a quarter of a season to discern the quality of a major league baseball team. In any normal year, that is about 40 games. In 2020, it’s 15.

Sports

Mariners manage just one hit in loss to Rockies

UPDATED: Sat., Aug. 8, 2020

SEATTLE – A year and five days ago, in a time when masks were for surgeries and dental appointments, when fans could attend games and baseball was a 162-game season, the Mariners were no-hit by four Houston Astros pitchers at Minute Maid Park. It was fitting outcome to the domination by the Astros.

Sports

Dustin Johnson emerges from crowded pack to lead PGA Championship

UPDATED: Sat., Aug. 8, 2020

Dustin Johnson lost his yardage book and still found his way through an enormous crowd of contenders Saturday, making eight birdies at Harding Park for a 5-under 65 and a one-shot lead in the PGA Championship.

Sports

MLB roundup: Marcus Semien hits leadoff HR, A’s beat Astros to win 8th straight

UPDATED: Sat., Aug. 8, 2020

OAKLAND, Calif. — Marcus Semien homered in the first after hitting a walkoff single to end a 13-inning win a night earlier and the Oakland Athletics beat the Houston Astros 3-1 on Saturday for their eighth straight victory.

Sports

Phil Mickelson fizzles on course, wows in booth at PGA Championship

UPDATED: Sat., Aug. 8, 2020

Phil Mickelson’s credentials were well-established by the time he settled into the broadcast booth during the third round of the PGA Championship.

Sports

Analysis: Coronavirus derailed good things for Eastern Washington athletics

UPDATED: Sat., Aug. 8, 2020

Before the pandemic, there was a sense of excitement in EWU's athletic department.

Sports

Sounders set to resume MLS season on the road in late August, return to Seattle without fans on Aug. 30

UPDATED: Sat., Aug. 8, 2020

Sounders FC matches will be played at CenturyLink Field again.

Sports

Leaders of Pac-12 player movement left ‘disappointed’ after meeting with commissioner

UPDATED: Sat., Aug. 8, 2020

Eighteen athletes from the Pac-12 Conference, including Washington State defensive lineman Dallas Hobbs, endorsed a letter to Larry Scott expressing "disappointment" and "concern" with what transpired during an initial meeting between the commissioner and leaders of the #WeAreUnited movement.

Sports

After charges dropped, Quinton Dunbar to be taken off NFL exempt list, able to rejoin Seahawks

UPDATED: Sat., Aug. 8, 2020

SEATTLE – Quinton Dunbar has been cleared to finally set foot in Seattle as a Sea- hawk.

Sports

Jewell Lloyd, Breanna Stewart lead Seattle past Phoenix 74-68

Sat., Aug. 8, 2020

Jewell Loyd scored 20 points and Breanna Stewart added 15 points and Seattle used the second quarter to take control in a 74-68 win over Phoenix.

Sports

Hoopfest goes digital: Get shirts, prizes with upcoming Hoopfest HomeCourt challenge

UPDATED: Sat., Aug. 8, 2020

Hoopfest won't be on the streets of downtown Spokane this summer, but you can still play for a championship T-shirt.

Sports

Cael Nearhoof continues his play-by-play broadcasting career

Sat., Aug. 8, 2020

Cael Nerhoff, from Fergus High School, plans to one day be a famous sports broadcaster.

Sports > Outdoors

State launches new grant program to conserve community forests

Sat., Aug. 8, 2020

Staff and wire reports

Sports

Mariners’ bullpen again makes chance to rally moot in series-opening loss to Rockies

UPDATED: Fri., Aug. 7, 2020

Here’s the thing about rallies in baseball or in any sport: They are never just a product of the offense, even though that’s often what is most remembered.

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