INDIANAPOLIS – Marco Andretti knows how much heartache his family has suffered at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
CONCORD, N.C. – What can a career-first Sprint Cup Series victory in the Coca-Cola 600 mean for a driver?
The red clay of Roland Garros isn’t impressed with raw power.
Someday, maybe next year or the year after, a sprinter might beat Wenatchee sophomore Isaiah Brandt-Sims at the Class 4A state track and field championships.
PASCO — A quick review of the hitting numbers put up by the Kentwood baseball team brings to mind a team that mashes home runs and piles on double-digit run totals.
Rachel O’Neil didn’t know if she had won the finals of the Class 4A girls 100-meter hurdles.
If Orting High’s Savannah Burr was on cloud nine after the first day of the Class 1A/2B/1B state track and field championships, her coach was seated right next to her.
The Seattle Mariners survived another Albert Pujols home run, got seven gritty innings from Blake Beavan and managed to get a one-run lead to the ninth inning Friday.
Around Washington High School, the “Redemption Tour” has started.
Marcus Chambers wouldn’t quite admit that Friday’s preliminary races in the 200 and 400 meter dashes were easy. But the junior from Foss sure made it look that way.
While his competitors likely went into the 300-meter hurdles preliminary with the mindset of just surviving, Daniel Zmuda had a slightly different approach.
YAKIMA – Although Sumner High starting pitcher Logan Christensen held Lynden to two hits, four errors and too many free passes proved too much to overcome, as the Spartans lost to Lynden, 5-1, on Friday at Yakima County Stadium.
They’re back – and they’re ready.
Tumwater High softball coach Clay Hill had a feeling something like this could happen at the state championships.
SPOKANE – The best fastpitch teams usually rely heavily on dominant pitching, but the Jefferson Raiders are doing their best to change that way of thinking. “Our thing is all about outscoring teams,” Jefferson coach Chad Fahnlander said after the Raiders opened the state 4A tournament with a pair of high-scoring wins Friday at the Dwight Merkel Sports Complex.
The thought of her Wilson High School fastpitch career ending without a state trophy crept into senior Janessa Flynn’s mind during the sixth inning.
They’re small markets with once-in-a-generation forwards, All-Star point guards, left-handed sparkplugs off the bench and closely linked front offices. In the entire NBA, San Antonio and Oklahoma City are about as similar as it gets.
Brad Keselowski got the first of many surprises at his first meeting with racing great Roger Penske.
Hale Irwin shot his age – and was so frustrated afterward he might switch putters before playing again.
The 4A boys soccer championship game is set, and Bellarmine Prep is nowhere to be found, losing, 1-0, in the semifinals to Central Kitsap on Friday night at Sparks Stadium in Puyallup.
PASCO — It usually takes your best game to reach the championship of the 4A baseball state playoffs.
John “Jeff” Harbottle III was known to have a heart of gold, a passion for golf and a keen mind for building world-class courses any level of player could enjoy.
Marcus Dickson lost his kicks. Trailing Squalicum High’s Patrick Gibson for seven and a half laps, Dickson figured his end-of-race rocket boosters would blast him into the lead.
Coming up through the youth soccer ranks, Bellarmine Prep senior forward Kurtis Pederson played every position.
Anyone wondering why the Los Angeles Angels arrived at Safeco Field as a fourth-place team needed look no further than Albert Pujols and Dan Haren.
DES MOINES, Iowa – Mike Wilson and Brian Sweeney are back, and the Tacoma Rainiers are happy to have them.
One day after running for the first time in weeks, Gold Glove center fielder Franklin Gutierrez allowed himself to feel like just another player on Thursday.
It’s been a while, but Richard Petty has bragging rights once again in Charlotte, N.C.
OKLAHOMA CITY — When owner Clay Bennett was seeking a leader for his team that would one day become the Oklahoma City Thunder, he picked a rising star from a San Antonio franchise on the verge of winning its fourth NBA championship in a decade.
No matter how bad his wrists hurt during a game, the pain Connor Sigmon feels subsides with every Tumwater boys soccer win.
Matt Bower won’t back down from a challenge.
Olympia High tennis coach Denny Bailey faced a quandary.
It’s not all that common for a third of a team’s starting lineup to live under the same roof.
Zach Johnson stood behind the fourth green looking at his club and then the ball that rolled within 4 feet of the hole.
Catcher Miguel Olivo was activated from the disabled list today, and to make room for him on the active roster, the Mariners sent outfielder Casper Wells to Triple-A Tacoma. That means there is still a place for little-used Chone Figgins with the team.
There was a time when Lakes High’s Izaic Yorks and White River High’s Marcus Dickson thought running 1,600 meters in 4 minutes, 18 seconds – which they both did in a head-to-head race at the 2011 Tacoma City Invitational – was a gut-busting achievement.
Sounders FC dominated the run of play Wednesday but lost to the Columbus Crew, 2-0.
Kevin Millwood appears to have come unstuck in time, and the Seattle Mariners won Wednesday despite being held to four hits, largely because Millwood put up six zeros on the scoreboard.
Before Alivia Brown stepped forward to accept the Class 4A girls golf state tournament individual championship, the Bellarmine Prep sophomore found herself in another spot she’d never been – a playoff.
With a blistering 1-under-par 71, Clarkston’s Tyler Carlson dominated the field in route to the 2A golf title at The Classic Golf Club in Spanaway on Wednesday afternoon.
DUPONT – There was cause for some sibling revelry.
BELLEVUE – Seattle’s Jeff Gove thinks he has one more surge in him to get back to the PGA Tour.
After two years of finishing runner-up at the girls Class 2A state golf tournament, Steilacoom High junior Cherokee Kim drained enough clutch putts to claim her first state championship.
Miguel Olivo is returning to the Seattle Mariners as soon as the next few days, which means someone on the 25-man roster will have to come off.
Alex Liddi hit the first grand slam of his career, and second grand slam ever by an Italian-born player, Kevin Millwood threw six shutout innings and the Seattle Mariners took two of three from division-leading Texas with a 5-3 win over the Rangers on Wednesday.
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