Some of the demands are untenable, some are unattainable, and some can be charitably labeled as naive or idealistic.

Wouldn’t you know it: Just when the Mariners were getting kind of fun, the MLB season is teetering on the brink of extinction.

SEATTLE — There was little doubt that the best linebacker in the game would field questions about one of the top safeties in the game. And on Wednesday, Bobby Wagner was all too happy to praise the newly acquired Jamal Adams, a former Jets DB.

At the onset of the sports shutdown, Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott — after consultation with the presidents and chancellors — indicated that if classrooms couldn’t open in the fall, locker rooms wouldn’t open for the fall.

SEATTLE — The late Los Angeles Rams and Washington NFL coach George Allen is credited with coining the phrase, “The future is now.”

The familiar rhythms of baseball are creeping back, and there’s an undeniable comfort in that, especially with all the unsettling disruptions of these past few months.

So here we are, nearly four months late to the party, trying to wrap our brains, and our masks, around the most … unique … season in baseball history.

The NFL is indisputably the king of professional sports in our country.

It’s a Hail Mary pass that just doesn’t fly.

SEATTLE — Fawn Sharp, president of the National Congress of American Indians and also president of the Quinault Indian Nation on the Olympic peninsula, awoke at 3:08 on a recent morning. These words came into her head: "Today is the day."

Our guide Sancho carefully drew a map in the air with his index finger, uttering words that cause fly anglers to scratch their chins with a measure of dignity, before scratching themselves.

You don’t have to preach to Mariners center fielder Braden Bishop about the contagious nature of the novel coronavirus. His younger brother Hunter contracting it was all the confirmation he needed.

Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott said Thursday that the conference is prepared to pivot quickly to alternate football scenarios in the event a 12-game regular season cannot start on time because of the coronavirus surge.

Blake Treinen was rolling south on Interstate 84 somewhere in central Idaho last week when I finally caught up with him

Ron Meek and I stood on the banks of Boulder River near Big Timber and watched a jet boat the size of a Florida shrimper power up the roiling water that dumped from the Absaroka Range into the Yellowstone.

In putting together a recent column that focused on the first game in Seattle Seahawks history, I was struck by the many connections between that game and Walla Walla.

It’s been nearly a half a century since the National Football League arrived in the Pacific Northwest.

I struck gold again the other evening on my way to Graze to pick up a couple of sandwiches — cold steak for my wife Margaret and a BLT for yours truly.

The chances of an average golfer making a hole-in-one are roughly 12,500 to 1 according to the National Hole-In-One Registry.

Imagine working 80-hour weeks for years on end with the sole goal of becoming an NFL coach.

Watching televised replays of sporting events has proved to be one way to fill the void of live-action games that have been plunged into a deep freeze for a good two months because of the coronavirus.

I’m like any other sports fanatic from Fargo to Fort Worth, from Kennewick to Key West.

Digging through my Blue Mountain Sports Awards files and gleaning details that were needed for recent columns that appeared in this space turned out to be for me a pleasant trip down memory lane.

The panel of judges responsible for determining the winners of the Blue Mountain Sports Awards these past 43 years should be commended for their dedication and fairness.

Former DeSales High School football coach Mike Spiess’s involvement with the program touched four decades — from 1986-2018.

Broadcasting, newspaper writing, public address announcing and statistical gathering have been cornerstones of my life for the better part of four decades.

I remember attending a couple of meetings back in late 1976 — or perhaps it was early 1977 — when the first Blue Mountain Sports Awards was in its planning stages.

Walla Walla Community College’s women’s soccer program — now some two-and-a-half decades old — has proven to be quite formidable in the Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC), formally the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges (NWAACC).

Walla Walla Community College’s volleyball program had its moments of exceeding expectations under former head coach Tim Toon.

Jeff Reinland seemed to have it made as a high school basketball coach.

The 30-season history of Walla Walla Community College football, which unfolded from 1968 through 1997, had its share of successes.

Many mindsets seem to come to the forefront with the beginning of any sports season.

When the first Blue Mountain Sports Awards took place in the cafeteria at Walla Walla Community College in the spring of 1977, Max Seachris was honored as Coach of the Year.

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.

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.

One could hypothesize that the postponement and cancellation of sporting events locally, regionally, nationally, and around the globe due to the coronavirus has been painful.

The coronavirus that prematurely ended Walla Walla Community College’s women’s basketball season earlier this month isn’t expected to negatively impact, at least in a big way, four-year colleges who are interested in recruiting Warrior sophomores.

Bobbi Hazeltine figures she’s at least one step ahead of the coronavirus when it comes to recruiting next year’s women’s basketball class at Walla Walla Community College.

The best time to catch whitefish on a fly rod is in July when you’re fishing for trout.

The morning of Sunday, Jan. 26 dawned in typical fashion for the University of Washington’s baseball team.

If a greater opportunity has awaited a first-year Pac-12 head coach, we are unaware.

I’ll bet you a buck to a dime that rarely a day goes by I don’t get a phone call from somebody either living here or visiting the area asking about the availability of a truly public pistol range.