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The 47th Annual Cheney Rodeo kicks off its three-day run at Bi-Mart Arena with the first performance Friday, July 11 at 7:20 p.m. It’s “Tough Enough To Wear Pink” night where all rodeo attendees are urged to wear pink in support of breast cancer awareness. Saturday’s festivities begin with a rodeo parade in downtown Cheney at 11:30 a.m. with that night’s competition starting at 7:20 p.m. Sunday, July 13 is Family Day with a 2 p.m. start. A dance will follow the rodeo both Friday and Saturday nights. Gates open two hours bef...
Well-known already in The Sports Network postseason awards circles, Eastern Washington junior quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. and sophomore Cooper Kupp are on the initial Watch List for the Walter Payton Award presented annually by TSN to the top player in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision. Adams was the 2013 runner-up for the Payton Award while Kupp was a unanimous winner of the Jerry Rice Award given by TSN to the top freshman in FCS. They join a list of 20 players on the initial Watch List. Adams finished with 446 vo...
Armed with a new professional contract, and soon his degree in communication studies from Eastern Washington University, 6-foot-10 center Martin Seiferth will return to his native Germany for an opportunity to play professional basketball. Seiferth will play for Alba in the Turkish Airlines Euroleague in 2014-15, EWU head men’s basketball coach Jim Hayford announced July 7. Seiferth, the first player to be signed by Alba for the 2014-15 season returns to the Berlin-based club, after previously playing for Alba’s youth tea...
The third annual Jedermann Gran Fondo is taking place July 19, with three timed races beginning in downtown Cheney. The rides utilize back roads, are virtually traffic free and open to any cyclist. The phrase "Gran Fondo" is Italian for "great rides" while the word "Jedermann" is derived from "Jedermann Rennen" which is German for "everyone's race." Strung together, the Jedermann Gran Fondo is "everyone's great race." The rides are 100, 66 and 30 miles in length. The 30-mile...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor I have a confession to make. I have been guilty of flopping. Yes, I know. It’s hard to believe. It happened during junior varsity basketball my sophomore year in high school. We were playing at Harrington, leading, and during a change in possession late in the first half my coach Jerry Price was yelling at us for someone to stop the ball — basketball code for “someone please guard the guy dribbling the ball up court.” The guards who should have been doing it were too busy running up court to get und...
If there was one thing the Spokane Blue Devils took away from their 2-3 finish at the Spokane Woodbat Classic it was the sneak peek at some of the pitching those who will move on to play collegiate baseball might face. But Blue Devils’ head coach Steve Hare also watched as his pitching continued to improve little by little and bats were making more and more contact. Spokane, which features Cheney players Tanner Smith and Kyle Barsness, opened the Al Jackson pod play Thursday w...
The West Plains Bandits 14U softball team placed second in the 25th annual 4th of July Shootout held July 4-6 at Spokane's Dwight Merkel Sports Complex and Franklin Park softball fields. The five games over three days wrapped up a busy week for the Bandits, who earned a doubleheader sweep in Spokane Girls Fastpitch Softball Association league play last Wednesday, July 2. West Plains opened the Shootout with a 7-1 win over the Wenatchee Mustangs Friday, July 4. The Bandits...
As far as Medical Lake head coach Kerry Kelly was concerned, his team accomplished at least part of their mission in last weekend's Spokane American Legion Woodbat Classic Tournament. Despite a 1-4 finish on paper, Kelly said his team uncovered more potential on the roster. And that is the primary focus of summer baseball for Kelly. Medical Lake opened AA pod play at Holliday Field with a 3-2 loss to Walla Walla and followed that with a 17-1 pummeling from Pendleton, Ore....
Kadeem Smalls, manager of the Cheney SummerHawks American Legion baseball team, knew his group would face tough competition in this year's Wood Bat Classic Tournament, July 4-6, and boy was he right. Cheney struggled in the first day of competition, dropping a 5-1 game to Sandpoint. In the Sandpoint game, Cheney struggled to get their bats going. Andrew Witt scored the only run for the SummerHawks in the third inning. In their second game, Cheney again failed to get their...
I need to get a cap on my front tooth redone — it has a significant chip in it. Luckily I live at a time in which dentists are in every city and town, plying their trade in ways that can help us each day. A young woman who scientists are calling Naia was not so lucky. She lived about 12,000 to 13,000 years ago in what’s now the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. A recent article in New Scientist reports that Naia’s teeth have a number of large cavities in them. Her mouth likely hurt a lot when she was alive. The name Naia comes...
