Vince Grippi

Current Position: Sports columnist

Vince Grippi is a freelance local sports blogger for spokesman.com. He also contributes to the <a href="http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/sportslink/">SportsLink Blog</a>.

Email: vincegrippi55@yahoo.com
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A Grip on Sports: Monday turns out to be a day of change in Pullman, with the football staff losing both coordinators

Tue., Dec. 3, 2024

A GRIP ON SPORTS • A trio of interrelated events happened in Pullman on Monday, throwing the immediate future and its close cousin, next season, into a bit of disarray. Welcome to every offseason from now on in college football.

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A Grip on Sports: Now that was a wacky weekend, highlighted by watching the Hawks’ Leonard Williams run 92 yards with an interception

Mon., Dec. 2, 2024

A GRIP ON SPORTS • What a Sunday. Crazy, actually. From one side of New York to the other. Or, to be precise, New Jersey. All of which meant the day’s events fit right in to the rest of the weekend just past. And set us up for a crazy week ahead.

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A Grip on Sports: WSU’s football season ended poorly, sure, but the record was better than the turnstile support showed

Sun., Dec. 1, 2024

A GRIP ON SPORTS • So much happened yesterday that the inglorious end in Pullman – game and season – seemed like an afterthought. In many ways. That game itself, a 15-14 loss to a Wyoming team that won three times all season? I’ll let others debate its import. There is another number that concerns me: 134,480.

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A Grip on Sports: Even though he’s a long way from walking with the seniors, it’s possible this is John Mateer’s final game in Pullman

Sat., Nov. 30, 2024

A GRIP ON SPORTS • The final Saturday of college football’s regular season once was filled with either visions of a bowl game or comeback plans for next year. For fans and coaches alike. Players too. But that has all changed. And no one epitomizes that change more than Washington State sophomore quarterback John Mateer.

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A Grip on Sports: This Black Friday, and through the weekend, the best deals are actually on your TV set

Fri., Nov. 29, 2024

A GRIP ON SPORTS • It wasn’t that long ago getting up at zero dark thirty, scraping the ice off the windshield and heading out to Shopko or K-Mart was mandatory for the Friday after Thanksgiving. That is if you wanted an $11 Cabbage Patch doll for your daughter’s Christmas. If not? You did then what you’ll do today. Watch football on TV.

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A Grip on Sports: The loss to West Virginia on Wednesday subtracts from Gonzaga’s start to what still could add up to a special season

Thu., Nov. 28, 2024

A GRIP ON SPORTS • You don’t have to be fluent in calculus to figure out the formula of Gonzaga’s 86-78 overtime defeat Wednesday, but darn if it doesn’t help. Mainly because when an undefeated third-ranked team loses a game it should have won, there has to be some way of quantifying what went wrong.

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A Grip on Sports: There may not be any football today but there is plenty of basketball to fill you up

Wed., Nov. 27, 2024

A GRIP ON SPORTS • Are you fasting today? Clearing out space for tomorrow’s onslaught? It’s not a good plan. Not with a buffet of basketball available. Oh, you thought I was referring to food? Nope.

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A Grip on Sports: Despite a few turkeys, this really is a feast of a week for sports fans with time to spare

Tue., Nov. 26, 2024

A GRIP ON SPORTS • ESPN calls it Feast Week, in a nod to the glutton of Thursday’s holiday that kicks off a season of them. In a sports-TV-watching sense, the conglomerate’s marketing department is right. From here until Cyber Monday, there is too much, too often, to digest it all. Hooray.

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A Grip on Sports: Williams was impressive, the Seahawk offense was just good enough and Seattle is back atop the NFC West

Mon., Nov. 25, 2024

A GRIP ON SPORTS • All was lost. The Seahawks were destined to fall. At home. To the NFC West-leading Cardinals. It was ordained when Geno Smith, in a fit of I-can-will-us-to-a-win hubris threw another NFL-leading pick. In the end zone. With a chance to salt the game away. Except one thing. They didn’t lose. Leonard Williams made sure of it.