The Spokane Chiefs have won 10 of their last 11 games after Saturday night's 3-2 overtime win over the Tri-City Americans in Kennewick. The Western Hockey League regular season ends Sunday with the Chiefs at Portland. Spokane won the season series over Tri-City 7-3-2-0, including…
Idaho qualified for its first NCAA tournament since 1985 by holding off Seattle 67-64 in Saturday's Western Athletic Conference championship game in Las Vegas. UI's Stacey Barr, a sophomore from Australia, was named tournament most valuable player. Idaho will find out its opening-round assignment at…
A GRIP ON SPORTS College basketball has its ups and downs. A good example of that occurred last night at the Pac-12 tournament, where UCLA came up big with a semifinal win over Arizona, only to have star freshman Jordan Adams come down wrong on…
COUGARS FROM LAS VEGAS -- Not much Washington State news to pass along this morning, but we do have our usual batch of links around the conference. Today, that means recapping the Pac-12 tournament semifinals. Read on.
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