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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

FRIDAY, OCT. 3, 2014



Charlie Dean (The Spokesman-Review file)

The Dean of Border League

In 1959 and 1960, Central Valley and West Valley joined the Spokane City League for football, but weren’t quite ready to compete with the larger city schools. For a few years, CV and WV played an independent schedule, as did Mead, who was graduating from…

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Is it one and done around here? 

A GRIP ON SPORTS Alabama can lose one, maybe two games, and still will be in the hunt. Texas A&M can have a loss. Ditto Auburn. Heck, LSU and Georgia are still in the national playoff picture and they've already lost. But Oregon loses last…

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Eastern and Big Sky links

You want tough? Meet Cody McCarrthy. the starting middle linebacker at Eastern Washington and the subject of this feature story. The Eagles are at home this week against Idaho State, and here a look at the game from EWU and from ISU. We also had…

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Brooks goes the distance for Chiefs

It's been a wild week for 20-year-old forward Calder Brooks. He was traded from Prince Albert to the Spokane Chiefs on Monday, arrived in Spokane on Wednesday, practiced for the first time on Thursday and will make his Chiefs debut during Friday's game in Cranbrook,…

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