CLARKSTON — The Walla Walla Valley 11-year-old All-Stars won the District 5 tournament championship with victories on Friday and Saturday at the Field of Dreams in Clarkston.
Duos from Longview, Wash., and Yakima claimed the top prizes over the weekend in the annual Couples Chapman golf tournament at the Walla Walla Country Club.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers say they’re studying how to improve the protective netting after a young girl was hit in the head by a liner from slugger Cody Bellinger.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Italy will host the 2026 Olympics in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, taking the Winter Games to the Alpine country for the second time in 20 years.
NEW YORK — The NBA fined the New York Knicks $50,000 on Monday for violating media rules by not allowing the New York Daily News to cover one of the team’s news conferences.
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge has sentenced a former top Sacramento Kings executive to seven years in prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
PHILADELPHIA — The New York Mets have fined manager Mickey Callaway and pitcher Jason Vargas for their expletive-filled confrontation with a reporter after a weekend loss at Wrigley Field.
ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Cardinals closer Jordan Hicks has a torn elbow ligament and the team says it’s determining what to do with the hardest-throwing pitcher in the majors.
SEATTLE — Midfielder Nicolas Lodeiro, the Sounders’ all-time assists leader, has been named to the 26-player MLS All-Star team, league officials announced on Monday.
VANCOUVER, B.C. – Tod Leiweke and Jerry Bruckheimer spent the final morning of the NHL draft enjoying breakfast with their incoming Seattle franchise’s newest hockey operations hire.
Ethan Paul has had some soaring moments of accomplishment during his four years at Vanderbilt, none greater than helping lead the Commodores to the championship series at the College World Series. The best-of-three showdown with Michigan began Monday in Omaha, Neb., with the Wolverines winning 7-4.
SEATTLE — On the morning of the Mariners’ 82nd game of the season, sitting at the mathematical halfway point of the 162-game marathon, Mariners chairman and managing partner John Stanton sat in the suite belonging to team president and CEO Kevin Mather, reading the day’s in-house game notes …
Duos from Longview, Wash., and Yakima claimed the top prizes over the weekend in the annual Couples Chapman golf tournament at the Walla Walla Country Club.
Walla Walla Bruins reliever Dylan Fowler was having a rough go of it in the top of the seventh inning Monday night at Warriors Field in a non-league summer baseball game against a talented Mount Vernon Riverdogs team.
REIMS, France — Spain tested the United States like no other team at the Women’s World Cup.
NEW YORK — Aaron Hicks and Giancarlo Stanton stretched the Yankees’ home run streak to a record-tying 27 games, and New York beat the Toronto Blue Jays 10-8 Monday night.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — The Milwaukee Bucks fell two games short of the NBA Finals.
ATLANTA — The Atlanta Hawks have traded Kent Bazemore to the Portland Trail Blazers for Evan Turner is a swap of high-priced players heading into the final year of their contracts.
MISSOULA, Mont. — The Lewis-Clark Twins scored 10 runs over the final two innings and defeated the Walla Walla Bears 17-11 here Sunday to conclude play in the Missoula summer baseball tournament.
CHASKA, Minn. — Hannah Green held her nerve and saved par from the bunker with a 5-foot putt on the final hole to win the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship for her first major championship, and the first by an Australian in 13 years.
HALLE, Germany — Roger Federer set another benchmark in his remarkable career by winning his 10th Halle Open title on Sunday.
SONOMA, Calif. — Martin Truex Jr. and Kyle Busch have managed to keep their long-standing rivalry quite friendly during their first season as teammates at Joe Gibbs Racing.
Will Kytola spun a four-hit shutout Sunday night as the Walla Walla Bruins defeated the Kennewick Dusters 4-0 to complete a doubleheader sweep at Warriors Field on the Walla Walla Community College campus.
CLARKSTON — The Walla Walla Valley 11-year-old All-Stars won the District 5 tournament championship with victories on Friday and Saturday at the Field of Dreams in Clarkston.
SELAH, Wash. — Walla Walla’s 14-and-under Athletics captured fifth place here Sunday during the final day of the Yakima Valley 17-and-under American Legion baseball tournament.
SEATTLE — Jewell Loyd scored 21 points, including the go-ahead basket with 24.6 seconds left, to lift the Seattle Storm to a 65-61 win over the Indiana Fever on Sunday.
The Walla Walla Sweets were unable to complete the three-game sweep against the Port Angeles Lefties on Sunday night at Borleske Stadium, as they fell 10-5.
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — After being blistered 17-2 in the first game of an American Legion baseball doubleheader here Sunday, the Walla Walla Griz regrouped.
SEATTLE — J.P. Crawford felt his trade to Seattle would give him the opportunity to be an everyday shortstop — hopefully as part of what the Mariners hope to build long-term.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The first round of the NHL draft wasn’t so much unpredictable as the game is becoming more international.
The Walla Walla Sweets baseball club improved their West Coast League South Division-best record to 12-2 on Saturday night as they scored a ninth-inning run to hand the Port Angeles Lefties their second-straight one-run loss, 9-8.
A decade ago, Nicole Christian came home.
SEATTLE — There aren’t many similarities between this year’s Orioles and the most successful regular-season team in club history, but for one day, Baltimore did a reasonably good impersonation of that 1969 squad.
MISSOULA — The Walla Walla Bears won two more games at the Missoula Tournament here on Friday to run their record to 3-0.
ARLINGTON, Texas — Texas Rangers third baseman Asdrúbal Cabrera plans to appeal a four-game suspension from Major League Baseball for throwing equipment on the field that hit an umpire.
LOS ANGELES — Former Gonzaga guard Zach Norvell Jr. didn’t hear his name called in Thursday’s NBA draft but he quickly landed an NBA opportunity.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Oakland Athletics pitcher Frankie Montas has been suspended 80 games by Major League Baseball after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Hall of Famer Joe Dumars is back in the NBA, hired as a special adviser to Sacramento Kings general manager Vlade Divac.
CHASKA, Minn. — Hannah Green made it through her first taste of the big stage on the LPGA Tour by holding a lead on the weekend at a major championship and playing alongside powerful Ariya Jutanugarn, a two-time major champion and former No. 1 in the world.
LONDON — American tennis player Anna Tatishvili has appealed her fine of about $50,000 for what the Grand Slam Board ruled was a violation of its first-round performance rule at the French Open last month.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The NHL salary cap for next season has been set at $81.5 million, which is $1.5 lower than initially projected.
CHARLOTTE — Former Gonzaga point guard Josh Perkins is joining the Charlotte Hornets on an Exhibit 10 contract.
Larry Bird’s place in NBA history stretches from the record book to the rule book.
SEATTLE — Mike Leake had been on a roll.
EVERETT — After 10 games, the identity shift is nearly complete as the Storm falls in line behind its new leaders, Natasha Howard and Jewell Loyd.
NEW YORK — Starved for fans despite success on the field, the Tampa Bay Rays have been given the go-ahead by Major League Baseball to look into playing a split season in Montreal.
NEW YORK — The NFL competition committee has decided against making any changes to the new rule for reviewing pass interference.
On a night when his father Jeff — a former Major League infielder — threw out the ceremonial first onion, Walla Walla Sweets second baseman Connor Cirillo accepted the toss, took a bite out of the onion, then took a bite out of the visiting Portland Pickles a short time later.
The Mariners have reached the sell-off stage of this step-back voyage, and what a grim ride it’s been so far.Â
WASHINGTON — Gonzaga’s Rui Hachimura became the first player from Japan to get chosen in the first round of the NBA draft, taken with the No. 9 overall pick by the rebuilding Washington Wizards on Thursday night.
SEATTLE — Isaiah Thomas was restless and looking to get on the basketball court, so the Denver Nuggets point guard and former Husky star sent a message via social media to the Storm.
