For most people, summer ends when school starts in late August or early September. But for sportscasters and sports writers across America, it’s much sooner than that.
Basically, my summer ended on August 8, when …

I realize I’m a few days late with this story, but it’s still grating on me. I’m finally ticked off at Tony Bennett.
I wasn’t mad when the former Cougar basketball coach left Pullman, seemingly …

Fall football camp will start for the Washington State Cougars on Sunday morning without Cory Mackay.
The would be sophomore, who was being counted on to start at defensive end for the Cougars this season, was …

The pundits think it’s going to be another long season on the Palouse.
Paul Wulff’s Washington State Cougars were picked to finish dead last in the Pac-10 preseason media poll, which was released today.  This …

Sounds like the Idaho Vandals won’t find a lot of believers outside of Moscow this season. “Akey’s Army” was picked to finish last in the Western Athletic Conference’s preseason coaches’ poll and next-to-last in …

Geoff Baker, the Mariners beat reporter for the Seattle Times, says the Mariners may be working on a possible trade to send Wisconsin native Jarrod Washburn to the Milwaukee Brewers.  Two of more of the …

I was 13 years old by the time I attended my first Mariners game at the Kingdome. I still remember it well. Seattle beat Texas and I almost caught a foul ball, before someone in the row in front of me snagged it first. My son Dylan won’t remember his first Mariners game. But that’s because his first M’s experience came 12 1/2 years before mine.

59-year-olds are not supposed to win major championships.  Their participation in such tournaments is more of a courtesy for past accomplishments.  A tip of the cap for their place in history.
But there was Tom Watson, a …

Your answer to the question posed in the title of this blog probably depends on your answer to this question:  are the Seattle Mariners contenders or pretenders?
The M’s looked like contenders while going 5-4 on a road …

The FIBA Under-19 World Basketball Championships are taking place right now in New Zealand.  But despite the tournament being thousands of miles away, there’s a distinctly local flavor for college basketball fans in the Inland …

Man, I love me some Hoopfest. And I’m not just saying that because I now work for the tournament’s official station.
Looking back at the t-shirt designs from the past 20 years, I determined that I’ve …

(Author’s note: the following is a running commentary beginning before the start of the NBA Draft and finishing after its conclusion.)
The NBA Draft starts at 4:00 PST today in New York City.  Gonzaga’s Austin Daye …