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Tara VanDerveer, Stanford legendary women’s basketball coach, announces retirement

Updated 10:06 p.m.

STANFORD – After 45 seasons, an NCAA-record 1,216 victories and three national championships, Stanford women’s basketball coach Tara VanDerveer has called it a career.

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Gonzaga finishes at No. 15 in final AP poll, Washington State checks in at No. 23

Updated 10:05 p.m.

Gonzaga transfer Michael Ajayi declares for NBA Draft while maintaining eligibility
Gonzaga wing Steele Venters 'can't wait' to get back on the court after missing last season to injury
'Just proud of her': Gonzaga assistant R-Jay Barsh excited to watch South Carolina's Chloe Kitts at Final Four

A closer look at the WSU QB battle between John Mateer and Zevi Eckhaus

Updated 10:04 p.m.

After dust settles around Sweet 16 loss, Gonzaga women can look back on special season

Former WSU commit Tallis Toure flips to Stanford, following former coach Kyle Smith

Updated 10:04 p.m.

‘We got beat by a better team’: Illinois ends WSU women’s season in semifinals of WBIT

Eastern Washington big man Ethan Price, star freshman LeJuan Watts enter transfer portal

Idaho basketball

Slow start costs Idaho women in 73-61 loss to Montana in Big Sky quarterfinals

When it comes to all things tennis, it’s love-love for Sandpoint teenager Pepper Rickert

Updated 10:06 p.m.

Back for a 7th season, Darrien Sampson provides veteran leadership for Eastern Washington secondary

Idaho great Mike Iupati a welcome addition as volunteer coach at Vandals’ spring camp

‘Good first day’: New coach Jedd Fisch gets first look at Huskies as spring camp opens

UW basketball

Zoom Diallo, UW Huskies top recruit, noncommittal about joining men’s team

Shane Wright tallies first multi-goal game of career in Kraken’s win over Ducks

Cougars wrap up sweep over Chiefs 3-2

More of the same as Mariners fall to Blue Jays for 6th loss in 7 games

Updated 10:35 p.m.

Lefty Mason Green goes six strong innings, Spokane Indians beat Tri-City 4-0 for fourth straight win

Updated 10:24 p.m.

Commentary: This Seahawks offseason has been hectic. Has it been productive?

Updated 10:16 p.m.

Idaho begins studying turkeys north of Coeur d’Alene

Former Whitworth coach Matt Logie leads Montana State to NCAA Tournament in first year on job

Fourth-seeded Alabama blows by Charleston 109-96 in first-round game at the Arena

In acquiring former Gonzaga lefty Marco Gonzales from Braves, Pirates adding familiar type of pitching help

Sounders

Sounders lose to Galaxy on soggy night in Southern California, remain winless

Spokane Soccer

Spokane Velocity to host Mexican club Guadalajara for friendly in June

Pac-12 Hotline

College basketball outlook: Duke, UConn top way-too-early projections; Gonzaga comes in at No. 6

Inland Northwest's Best

Inland Northwest’s Best: John Stockton to Tommy Lasorda, these pro sports stars are the pride of the region

Greatest Spokane League

Talent on the big stage: Over 45 years, close to 100 Greater Spokane League girls basketball players have signed with Division 1 schools

What if?

Shawn Vestal: Looking at the great ‘what if’ had Evel Knievel landed the Snake River Canyon jump

Gone, but not Forgotten

Their Field of Dreams: Field hockey found success as WSU’s first intercollegiate female sport

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Sports > MLB

More of the same as Mariners fall to Blue Jays for 6th loss in 7 games

UPDATED: Tue., April 9, 2024

TORONTO — The kind of baseball a team is playing is usually dictated by the results. There is “winning baseball” for teams on a roll. Some teams will say they are still playing “good baseball” when they are losing close, competitive games.

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Tara VanDerveer, Stanford legendary women’s basketball coach, announces retirement

UPDATED: Tue., April 9, 2024

STANFORD – After 45 seasons, an NCAA-record 1,216 victories and three national championships, Stanford women’s basketball coach Tara VanDerveer has called it a career.

Sports > WSU basketball

Former WSU guard, Central Valley star Dylan Darling transfers to Idaho State

UPDATED: Tue., April 9, 2024

PULLMAN – Dylan Darling, the former Central Valley High basketball star, is on the move.

Sports > WSU football

A closer look at the WSU QB battle between John Mateer and Zevi Eckhaus

UPDATED: Tue., April 9, 2024

PULLMAN – Somewhere in the discussion about John Mateer, Washington State’s third-year quarterback finally vying for the starting gig, one reality has gone a tad understated.

Sports > Spokane Indians

Lefty Mason Green goes six strong innings, Spokane Indians beat Tri-City 4-0 for fourth straight win

UPDATED: Tue., April 9, 2024

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Sports > WSU basketball

Former WSU commit Tallis Toure flips to Stanford, following former coach Kyle Smith

UPDATED: Tue., April 9, 2024

PULLMAN – David Riley’s job keeps getting a little harder.

Sports

NAIA ruling to ban transgender women from competing in sports will affect Inland Northwest colleges

UPDATED: Tue., April 9, 2024

A pair of colleges in the Inland Northwest whose sports teams are overseen by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics face a new reality: transgender athletes will soon be banned from competing on women’s teams.

Sports > NCAA basketball

Dan Hurley: ‘I’m not going in the portal’ after repeating as champ at UConn

UPDATED: Tue., April 9, 2024

After winning the championship last season, Hurley got a new contract, increasing his salary to $5 million per year and extending it through 2029. With performance bonuses, he is up to $6.7 million. If Kentucky decides to go after the most successful coach in the game right now, it could offer record salaries, given its SEC revenue.

Sports > Golf

Tiger Woods and the Masters, forever linked: ‘It has meant a lot to my family’

UPDATED: Tue., April 9, 2024

The dramatic elevation changes of Augusta National are not always evident in Masters broadcasts. It's a common observation by first-timers to the storied golf course that it's far hillier than it looks on TV. The ups and downs of Tiger Woods? Plainly evident for the world to see.

Sports > NCAA football

John Calipari announces he’s leaving Kentucky after 15 seasons

UPDATED: Tue., April 9, 2024

After multiple outlets reported Sunday night that Kentucky men’s basketball coach John Calipari was in talks with Arkansas about its coaching vacancy, Calipari announced he was stepping away from the Wildcats’ program on Tuesday. In a video posted on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, the 65-year-old Calipari said he and his wife, Ellen, had spent a lot of time over the past few weeks reflecting on their 15 seasons in Lexington.

Sports > Area sports

When it comes to all things tennis, it’s love-love for Sandpoint teenager Pepper Rickert

UPDATED: Tue., April 9, 2024

Being ranked among the top young tennis players in the country makes Sandpoint’s Pepper Rickert’s life unlike those of other teenage girls.

Sports > NCAA basketball

Pac-12 basketball: Ranking the greatest teams since the UCLA dynasty ended and the Arizona schools joined the conference

UPDATED: Tue., April 9, 2024

To honor the end of Pac-12 basketball, the Hotline plowed through decades of data to identify the greatest teams in conference history.

Sports > Seattle Seahawks

Commentary: This Seahawks offseason has been hectic. Has it been productive?

UPDATED: Tue., April 9, 2024

Are the Seahawks going to be any good? Well, honestly, probably not good enough.

Sports > Gonzaga basketball

Gonzaga finishes at No. 15 in final AP poll, Washington State checks in at No. 23

UPDATED: Tue., April 9, 2024

Gonzaga’s placement in the final edition of the AP Top 25 was fitting for a team that bowed out of the NCAA Tournament in the Sweet 16.

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A Grip on Sports: One player can dominate, but Connecticut proved once again a dominant team wins most every time

Tue., April 9, 2024

A GRIP ON SPORTS • Funny. The men’s and the women’s NCAA championship games were basically mirror images of each other. The best team won. Handily. The best player was, well, the best player. But not by enough to lift the trophy.

Sports > WSU basketball

‘Structure and freedom’: Inside the offense new head coach David Riley is planning to bring to WSU

UPDATED: Tue., April 9, 2024

David Riley, the former head man at Eastern Washington for three seasons, prides himself on efficient offense. Last season, his Eagles ranked fourth nationwide in effective field goal percentage, sixth in 2-point field goal percentage, and nobody in their rotation shot worse than 35% from beyond the arc.

Sports > NCAA basketball

With air of inevitability, Connecticut repeats as NCAA tournament champion

UPDATED: Mon., April 8, 2024

GLENDALE, Ariz. — If the NCAA men’s basketball tournament counts as one of the nation’s ultimate rodeos, then it just witnessed maybe the smoothest two-year case of bronco riding it ever saw. Coach Dan Hurley’s Connecticut Huskies spent Monday night finishing an unimaginable calming of the rambunctious event, becoming the first repeat national champion since Florida in 2006-07 and only the second since Duke in 1991-92. It parked a program little-known four decades ago way up high on the list at six national championships, in third place shoulder-to-shoulder with North Carolina.

Sports > Seattle Mariners

Luis Castillo’s struggles continue in Mariners’ loss to Blue Jays

UPDATED: Mon., April 8, 2024

TORONTO — The Mariners didn’t expect Luis Castillo to replicate the overpowering dominance he displayed in that memorable American League Wild Card game back in October of 2022. Though they would’ve happily taken seven-plus shutout innings.

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