Area sports

Seattle’s two professional soccer franchises are visiting Spokane this spring.

The Spokane Chiefs team that coach Brad Lauer left in December when he went to help coach Team Canada at the IIHF World Junior Championship in Minnesota was drastically different than the one he returned to.

VICTORIA, B.C. – The Victoria Royals are currently blocking the Spokane Chiefs’ path to the playoffs in the Western Conference, with a tenuous hold on eighth place in the standings.

The Victoria Royals broke open a scoreless game with two goals in a three-minute stretch and held off the Spokane Chiefs 2-1 on Friday night at Save-On-Foods Memorial Arena in Victoria, British Columbia.

He almost scored in his first NHL game in October, in front of his parents. How was it January and Berkly Catton still didn’t have a goal? During his three-year, 197-game Western Hockey League career, Catton found the net 116 times for the Spokane Chiefs. His longest goal drought was nine games. He grew antsy long before this stretch tripled that one, with a much bigger audience watching and ...

Yacine Guermali will be representing the Philippines when he takes on the 10k in Tallahassee, Florida. Guermali is the sole representative of the Philippines entered for the race.

Berkly Catton’s long-awaited first NHL goal fell Tuesday night. His second wasn’t far behind.

Katie Faulkner didn’t move to Malibu, California, for sunshine and coastline beaches – though they’re certainly welcome side benefits.

The Spokane Velocity hired Neil Hlavaty as an assistant coach for the 2026 season. which begins March 8, the team announced Monday. 

The Spokane Chiefs are making moves for the present – and the future.

Although it was an overall rocky rookie season for Cam Ward (Washington State) – including a tough break in the finale that saw the Tennessee quarterback leave the game early with an injury – there were also flashes of promise from the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NFL draft.

The Penticton Vees are not your typical expansion team – the organization was careful to construct a squad with experienced players in order to be competitive right out of the gate in their first year in the Western Hockey League.

Mathis Preston scored the go-ahead goal with 2 minutes, 27 seconds left in the third period and the Spokane Chiefs beat the visiting Vancouver Giants 3-2 in a Western Hockey League Western Conference game at the Arena on Friday.

KENNEWICK – Savin Virk scored the eventual difference-maker seven minutes into the second period and the Spokane Chiefs lost to the Tri-City Americans 3-2 in the teams’ annual New Year’s Eve matchup between traditional Western Hockey League U.S. Division rivals at the Toyota Center on Wednesday.

Sam Oremba scored a breakaway goal with 1.4 seconds left in the third period and the Spokane Chiefs edged the Wenatchee Wild 4-3 in a Western Hockey League U.S. Division game at the Town Toyota Center in Wenatchee on Sunday.

Unlike last season, when the Spokane Chiefs led the league in scoring and was ranked second in the power play, earning a playoff spot is not a foregone conclusion this season, as the club entered the Christmas break with just one more win than loss in their ledger – tenuously tied for seventh and eighth places in the conference.

If you’re relatively new to the area – more relatively than new – who’s to know that Playfair Race Course closed its doors forever almost exactly a quarter century ago. Imagine what you have missed.

In its last five games, the Spokane Zephyr had suffered four losses, and one draw.