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A three-sport standout at Walla Walla High School, named All-Mid Columbia Conference three times in the past 12 months for baseball (last spring as a junior), football and then basketball, Dylan Ashbeck should already have almost three weeks of baseball games under his belt this season.
The act of shuffling through my old baseball cards while researching for a column that appeared in last Sunday’s Union-Bulletin brought back a flood of memories.
The annual Blue Mountain Sports Awards ceremony has been canceled this year due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Monday was a joyful day for the University of Washington softball team — and there haven’t been many of those since a season of unfettered success was so abruptly halted.
RENTON, Wash. — The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association is still holding out hope it can have some sort of spring season despite the shutdowns from the coronavirus.
SPOKANE — An offensive tweet has again elicited an apology from Mike Leach.
PULLMAN — The madness that started brewing in March could lead to mayhem in April, May, June and July for college baseball programs around the country.
SEATTLE — The hope was that the Seattle freeze — when it came to the Seahawks’ stalemate with Jadeveon Clowney’s, anyway — was finally thawing.
CORVALLIS (AP) — Oregon State basketball player Destiny Slocum has opted to enter the transfer portal for her final season of eligibility.
SEATTLE — The boredom and isolated monotony that comes with social distancing?
Oregon's senior guard Payton Pritchard has been named to the All-American first team.
RENTON, Wash. — While the Jadeveon Clowney watch continued into its third week Wednesday, the Seahawks made another move to shore up their ailing pass rush, a move that also showed they are eager to complete the task of filling out their defensive line regardless of what Clowney decides.
It was as surprising as San Diego sunshine, but it happened Wednesday.
SPOKANE — Gonzaga’s Filip Petrusev was named to the 10-player Wooden Award All-American team.
SPOKANE — Sporting events around the world are being canceled or postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
CHENEY — While there won’t be any track meets in person for the foreseeable future, a local coach came up with what might be the next-best thing.
SEATTLE — The dynamic combination of Isaiah Stewart and Jaden McDaniels, the first pairing of top-10 recruits in Washington men’s basketball history, was never going to last long.
For the first time in its nearly century-and-a-half history, Wimbledon was canceled for a reason other than war, scrapped in 2020 on Wednesday because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Live sporting events are, at their essence, documentaries played out in real time, with only surface-level commentary from broadcasters.
The Walla Walla Gun Club (WWGC) has canceled the PITA registered shoot scheduled for May 2-3 due to coronavirus restrictions.
As Major League Baseball and the players’ union contemplate various ways to create a schedule for whenever the coronavirus pandemic subsides, Cincinnati Reds catcher Tucker Barnhart raised a concern that is surely shared by others around the sport: Could trying to cram in games, and maybe ex…
SPOKANE — The coronavirus pandemic has sidelined nearly every aspect of college basketball and created uncertainty about what’s going to happen next week, next month and next season.
RENTON, Wash. — The Seattle Seahawks on Tuesday waived safety Tedric Thompson and released tight end Ed Dickson in moves that created an extra $5.1 million in salary-cap space as Seattle navigates the home stretch of the NFL free-agency period.
The NFL is gearing up for a normal season and playoffs — with two additional wild-card teams in the Super Bowl chase.
TOKYO — The countdown clocks have been reset and are ticking again for the Tokyo Olympics.
ATLANTA — In normal times — remember those? — your reigning active world’s fastest human would be just gearing up.
An impatient Seahawks fan may look at what’s transpired during this NFL free-agency period and feel frustrated.
SEATTLE — Jimmy Lambright was covered in blood.
Knowing when the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics will be solves one problem for USA Basketball.
SPOKANE — Pac-12 student-athletes, including the football players at Washington State still waiting to hold their first practice under new coach Nick Rolovich, won’t be able to regroup for organized team activities until at least May 31, according to a decision by the conference’s CEOs on Monday.
BOSTON — Red Sox starter Chris Sale had Tommy John surgery on his left elbow on Monday, his 31st birthday, waiting 11 days after doctors said he needed the operation because of difficulty in scheduling during the coronavirus pandemic.
All Walla Walla Parks and Recreation programs and facility reservations are postponed through April 24 due to coronavirus restrictions.
The one word everybody used was “tough.”
PULLMAN — For two or three hours every day last fall, Bryce Beekman endeared himself to Washington State teammates with an irresistible smile and unmistakable laugh.
As a player, assistant coach, defensive coordinator and head coach, Jim Lambright participated in more games with the University of Washington football program — 386 — than any other person.
Major league owners and players seem to be in rare agreement.
PULLMAN — Nick Rolovich’s acts of kindness started with taking his family out to eat each night to support Pullman restaurants that were struggling as the coronavirus outbreak took hold.
Dave Hoffmann stands alone in the middle of a room with 20 doors.
Burned out from reading too many books, disheartened by the news on cable TV and still a few hours away from my afternoon jog, I decided it was time to look for another way to deal with this coronavirus insanity.
SEATTLE — Oak View Group CEO Tim Leiweke said Thursday that construction work will resume next week on the KeyArena rebuild because its roof must be put back on to its permanent support posts.
SEATTLE — The roof would’ve been open when Marco Gonzales, clad in a crisp, white home uniform, fired the first pitch of the Mariners’ 2020 season from the mound of T-Mobile Park.
Under different circumstances, Rick Rizzs would have been bubbling with enthusiasm Thursday — turned up to an even higher boil than normal from a man who thrives on undisguised zeal.
The Indianapolis 500 was postponed Thursday until August because of the coronavirus pandemic and won’t run on Memorial Day weekend for the first time since 1946.
SEATTLE — And then there were two.
SEATTLE — A month ago Sue Bird was standing in the streets of Seattle joking with Storm fans in a video clip about — shocker — returning to the team for a 19th WNBA season.
SEATTLE — Native American tribal casinos, now closed statewide and losing millions of dollars daily due to coronavirus fears, got a boost Wednesday when Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law a bill authorizing sports betting within those venues.
Native American tribal casinos, now closed statewide and losing millions of dollars daily due to coronavirus fears, got a boost Wednesday when Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law a bill authorizing sports betting within those venues.
SEATTLE — A month ago Sue Bird was standing in the streets of Seattle joking with Storm fans in a video clip about — shocker — returning to the team for a 19th WNBA season.
PULLMAN — Bryce Beekman, a redshirt senior defensive back on Washington State’s football team, died Tuesday night in Pullman, Pullman Police Commander Jake Opgenorth confirmed to The Spokesman-Review.
