Archive for August, 2009
Bump! Set! Spike!
Practices for area high school volleyball teams begin on Monday.
A handful of teams will be under the watchful eye of a new head coach.
In three instances, an assistant coach has moved up to the head post. Elizabeth Ellis takes over for Tori Banek at Mac-Hi, Jennifer Maves has relinquished the reins to Bruce Crossfield in [...]
Woods’ Ying done in by Yang
Thank you, Y.E. Yang.
Thank you for your gritty effort that resulted in a first-place finish at the PGA Championship that wrapped up on Sunday in Chaska, Minn.
Thank you for that magnificent approach at the last with a 3-iron hybrid that cleared a bunker and ended up 12 feet from the cup.
Thank you for the 60-foot [...]
Shriver a True Champion
The sports world lost a true champion on Tuesday.
Not an athlete. Not a coach. But a true champion.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics, died at the age of 88.
Shriver, sister of the late President John F. Kennedy, had experienced numerous encounters with strokes in recent years prior to her death on Tuesday.
The Kennedy [...]
Langerhans keys M’s series win
When the Seattle Mariners needed a big swing to help them claim a weekend series with the Tampa Bay Rays at Safeco Field, who stepped up and delivered?
Ichiro? Ken Griffey, Jr.? Russell Branyan?
All logical choices.
Perhaps the biggest swing of the weekend came Friday night with the M’s down to their final out and their last [...]
Cummins Heading Home
Mike Cummins was a baseball coach without a team just a few weeks ago after Walla Walla Community College severed ties with him following a six-year stint as leader of the Warrior program.
My disappointment as a WWCC booster and part-time sports stringer became elation when I found out earlier today that Cummins was hired in [...]
