In today's sports briefs, the Nuggets shock the Clippers in 3 overtimes to win Game 7 and the LPGA's Portland Classic is reduced to 54 holes due to poor air quality.
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The only thing standing between the Pac-12 Conference and the resumption of a fall football season had been clearance from public health officials in California and Oregon, whose guidelines have prevented teams from initiating contact practice, let alone holding full-on college football games.
With college football carrying on elsewhere across the nation while programs in California remain unable to practice, USC football players made a public plea on Tuesday, asking Gov. Gavin Newsom in a letter to loosen restrictions surrounding college sports and "please let us play."
Big Ten is going to give fall football a shot after all.
The next time Washington State gets a commitment from the quarterback position, there’s a chance he’ll come from the 2023 recruiting class.
The first big weekend of college football was mostly stripped of the pageantry that is at the heart of the game.
During a Zoom call with reporters Friday, Pat Chun described the Pac-12’s new partnership with Quidel Corporation as “a ray of sunshine.” By the end of the month, Washington State and other schools in the league will be able to to test their athletes daily — something that’s been considered …
Brian Jeffries estimates he was 13 years old, maybe 14, when he and a childhood friend from Tacoma began gazing into the future, mapping out what they wanted to do, who they wanted to be when they grew up.
When Jim Walden was doing his stint as Bob Robertson’s color man, he made it a point to sit down next to Bob-Rob whenever he was about to set the scene for the upcoming Cougar football game.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Looking to revitalize one of the NFL’s most inept offenses, the Jacksonville Jaguars turned to the NFC East for the second consecutive year.
Despite entering his name in the NCAA transfer portal last week, Washington State’s Skyler Thomas will stay put this fall and finish his college career with the Cougars.
Clemson is the preseason No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25, a poll featuring nine Big Ten and Pac-12 teams that gives a glimpse at what has already been taken by the pandemic from an uncertain college football season.
PULLMAN — Xavier Ward isn’t sure what he’ll do with his Friday nights this fall. He knows they won’t involve pylons, floodlights and marching bands, but it’ll be hard to separate himself from high school football altogether.
PULLMAN — The athletes weren’t the only ones affected when Washington State University’s fall football season was canceled by the coronavirus pandemic. Merchants in tiny Pullman, Washington, who depend on big football crowds say they are losing a major chunk of their annual income.
The Pac-12 did more than cancel the 2020 football season Tuesday; it shuttered competition in all sports for the calendar year.
If Division I football is played in the coming months, it won’t be on red turf.
Jen Cohen made the first phone call at 7 a.m. on Sunday.
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — New York top draft pick Sabrina Ionescu injured her ankle in the second quarter against Atlanta and did not return to action in the Liberty’s 84-78 loss to the Dream on Friday night.
The Pac-12 set Sept. 26 as the start date Friday for its 10-game, conference-only football schedule, joining the Southeastern Conference in pushing back its season by three weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Expectations for the 2017 Walla Walla Community College men’s soccer team were no different than they had been in past years, according to coach Ben Rotert.
Walla Walla Community College volleyball coach Chelsie Speer is a proven winner.
Pete McClure, a 1993 Whitman College graduate and a self-described ‘late comer’ that ‘bounced around a little bit,’ commenced a 15-year career as men’s golf coach at his alma mater following a meeting at an appropriate venue.
A 2021 defensive lineman from the state of Washington verbally committed to UW on Monday.
By The Seattle Times
The restart of Pac-12 football began Monday, as programs across the conference open their training facilities to players for voluntary workouts.
The 2010s was a remarkable decade for the Whitman women’s golf program.
Is it realistic to think that a roster with 16 athletes — only five of which are seniors — can or could reach from within and be successful?
Whitman College athletics sported the nickname “Missionaries” for decades.
The 2017 baseball season was an exciting one for the Walla Walla Community College Warriors.
After an extensive national search, Whitman College has hired John Lamanna as the next head coach of the Blues men’s basketball team.
When coach John Hein was hired by Whitman College in 2008, he said it was “clear” that the NCAA Division III school “wanted women’s tennis to be on the national stage.”
Eric Bridgeland, Whitman College’s all-time winningest men’s basketball coach, will be leaving the Blues to become the next head coach at University of Redlands, it was announced last month.
It’s been a year since the Whitman College baseball program enjoyed one of its finest seasons in school history.
Whitman College women’s basketball coach Michelle Ferenz believes the 2012-’13 season served as a springboard for an historic 2013-14 campaign.
The definition of dominance suggests power and influence over others.
TEMPE, Ariz — Whitman College men's tennis players Daniel Foster and Ben Kirsh were named to the ITA All-America Team after claiming the doubles title at the 2019 ITA Fall Northwest Regional Championship.
TEMPE, Ariz — Andei Fukushige and Andrea Gu capped a fantastic, yet shortened, year for the Whitman College women’s tennis team.
Steve Irons’ four-year run as head men’s basketball coach at Walla Walla Community College — from 1989-90 to 1992-93 — was one pleasing to the eyes of Warrior Nation.
The Walla Walla Community College baseball program, in its humble beginnings, sought respectability and a degree of competitiveness during the 1988 and 1989 seasons under former head coach Zeke Blocklinger.
PULLMAN — A few weeks ago, Kyle Smith spoke about the importance of retention for his Washington State program.
Oregon's senior guard Payton Pritchard has been named to the All-American first team.
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.
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.
UW cancels spring grid practices, game
SPOKANE — Gonzaga finished the season in the same spot its occupied in nearly every USA Today college basketball poll over the last two months.
COLLEGE PLACE — Walla Walla University’s spring athletics are done before they really began with the Cascade Collegiate Conference’s (CCC’s) cancellation of all spring sports on Monday.
Coaches at Walla Walla Community College were disappointed but not surprised Thursday when decisions by the school and the Northwest Athletic Conference stopped their respective teams in their tracks because of the spread of the coronavirus.
Katie Hinnen provided the Blues offense with three goals, but it wasn't enough as the Whitman College women's lacrosse team fell to Whitworth, 19-5, in Northwest Conference action on Tuesday evening at the Whitman Athletics Complex.
