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Seemingly in a blink, 10 years have passed since a moment in time during the most proficient period in history for the Eastern Washington football program. In a span of three years between 2012 and 2014 Eastern were back-to-back-to-back Big Sky Conference champions. (Sure, in 2012 the Eagles shared the crown with Montana State and Cal Poly.) And twice they were just a handful of minutes away from returns to Frisco, Texas and the Football Championship Subdivision national championship. At the heart of that run were head coach...
Garret Johnson candidly admits he let a college wrestling career slip away and with it the opportunity to shine as he once did at Medical Lake High School. Johnson's doing his best lately with the second chance he's been given by wrestling - and winning - on the world stage for Team USA. He just returned from a couple of weeks in the Adriatic Sea community of Porec, Croatia. There Johnson won his 130 kg weight class in Freestyle at the Annual Veterans World Championship. In no...
Stacy Ashcroft took her first “driving test” with the West Plains Little League by becoming a board member a decade ago in 2015. By 2017, the keys to the car were in her hand, and Ashcroft was at the wheel as the organization's president and traveling new roads. "We do not regularly do fundraising, but after last year our board is getting a little bit more active and we're getting more ideas flowing," Ashcroft said. The effort to raise at least $8,000 — but more is always welcome — will fund a variety of field improve...
Too bad Rod Serling of Twilight Zone fame passed away in 1975 or he might have been the perfect guest for the coin toss at Eastern Washington’s football game with Drake last Saturday at Roos Field. Had Serling been present as he approached his 100the birthday in December to witness the strange occurrences in the Eagles 35-32 overtime loss to the Bulldogs from Des Moines, Iowa it just might have fueled a football themed episode of the 'Zone? No, not to the memorable level of a...
After nearly 30 years in a job, one might think things would be pretty cut and dried. Open the office door, turn on the lights and automatically do whatever you’ve done for decades. But that’s not the case if you’re a Division I head football coach like Aaron Best is at Eastern Washington University. Best is busily preparing for his eighth season as the Eagles’ big boss, the team opening at Roos Field in a non-conference game, Thursday, Aug. 29 against the Monmouth Hawks from New Jersey. Fresh from another letter of intent da...
As if an already troubled sport needed yet another poke in the eye and a whack to the shins. That would be unlimited hydroplane racing which limps away from the Columbia River last Sunday. The already slim roster of race boats was reduced even more following the unplanned demolition derby of the Apollo Columbia Cup in the Tri Cities. Eight of the exotic race boats arrived last week raring to go on the always exceedingly fast racecourse. Except low water in the northwest portion of the course forced officials to shrink the...
It was just 10 years ago that Vernon Adams Jr. was skittering around the red turf at Roos Field at Eastern Washington University making a name for himself. As the head mechanic of the Eagles’ high-powered offensive engine, Adams helped lead the Eagles to three consecutive Big Sky Conference championships and as many Football Championship Subdivision semifinal playoff appearances. Adams was passing and running his way to earning the nickname of “Big Play V.A.” with highl...
The Stanley Cup is the oldest trophy competed for by professional teams in North America. It is competition most sports fans could care less about who wins, let alone who is playing. It’s been battled for since 1892, a gift from Canada’s Governor General at the time, Lord Stanley of Preston. And only twice since, in 1919 due to the influenza epidemic and a lockout of players in 2005, has a winner not been crowned. By the time you read this there’s a significant likelihood that the Florida Panthers from Miami will have become...
There are several cogs in the machine that propels baseball’s recent success in the area, most notable the West Plains Little League. But a new addition arrived in 2020 that has helped fill the middle school gap, that being the Medical Lake Dirt Dawgs. The idea of a program that reaches primarily ages 13 to 15 jumped into founder Lance Michaud’s mind after he arrived in Medical Lake with the U.S. Air Force in 2019. A former college player, Michaud landed at Fairchild as its Food Superintendent and was surprised at what he...
Its name comes from the most unlikely source. The solitude that surrounds it is immense. And the ever-changing river corridor scenery is, perhaps, unparalleled? A just right El Niño winter weather pattern where the storm track punishes California sometimes rewards whitewater rafters with both perfect water and weather on Oregon’s Owyhee River. Flowing 280 miles, the headwaters of this river originate in northern Nevada with the Owyhee’s name derived from an original spel...
