Finally healthy after being slowed by injury the past two seasons, Federal Way senior Zeke McNeal is doing his best to make up for lost time.
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The Players Championship already provides plenty of theater because of its thrill-a-minute golf course. Making it even more compelling is the star attraction of Sergio Garcia and Tiger Woods playing in the final group on a weekend for the first time in nearly seven years.
Down and dominated during most of the first two games at home, the San Antonio Spurs once again showed why nobody should ever count them out.
So much for South Beach style. The Miami Heat showed again they can get down and dirty.
Seattle Sounders FC coach Sigi Schmid calls them “bogey teams.” They are teams that just seem to have another team’s number — sometimes for reasons that don’t make sense in pure soccer terms.
The brief, unsuccessful Brandon Roy era - or experiment - in Minnesota has been wiped clean by incoming President of Basketball Operations Flip Saunders.
Josh Donaldson, Daric Barton and Brandon Moss hit solo home runs and Jarrod Parker pitched into the seventh to lead the Oakland Athletics to a 4-3 win against the Seattle Mariners on Saturday night.
Saint Martin’s University’s softball team had a successful NCAA Division II tournament debut Friday in Arcata, Calif., beating Grand Canyon, 2-1, in the West 1 Regional at Humboldt State.
It has been a long two days for major league umpires. Back-to-back botched calls on Wednesday and Thursday led to the rare step of Major League Baseball handing out multiple fines and one suspension to an umpire crew.
Jason Bay stood on the infield grass of PNC Park looking at the breathtaking backdrop behind the outfield wall — the re-invented skyline of Pittsburgh’s downtown rising from behind the Allegheny River with the Roberto Clemente Bridge seemingly connecting it all.
If this is Chris Hansen's final salvo in his attempt to purchase the Sacramento Kings, it's coming with an additional $75 million price tag to what already could be the richest franchise sale in NBA history. Hansen increased his total valuation of the Kings from $550 million to $625 million on Friday in another attempt to sway NBA owners to allow him to buy the franchise and move it to Seattle.
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll gets his first glimpse at Seattle’s 11 draft picks when his team opens a three-day rookie minicamp this afternoon.
Major League Baseball on Friday suspended the crew chief and fined all four umpires involved in a bizarre incident during Thursday's game between the Angels and Houston Astros.
The room was full of hotshot, big-framed high school pitchers, slick-fielding infielders and fleet-footed outfielders, making up some of the best NCAA Division I baseball prospects in the Puget Sound area.
Kurt Busch ended up on top at Darlington Raceway a week after finishing upside-down at Talladega.
A Major League Soccer Reserve League match in Tacoma on Sunday will help determine if the city and Cheney Stadium could become permanent home to a United States Soccer Leagues Pro team.
The Honey Badger wants to shed his nickname.
Klay Thompson doesn’t fret much about outside evaluations of his game performances because he knows his most staunch ally is also his toughest critic, and he’s right at the top of the speed dial.
Enumclaw junior Sarah Morrow has a definite plan when she steps in the batter’s box. And she followed it to the letter Thursday in helping the Hornets win the 3A subdistrict fastpitch championship with a 6-3 victory over Bonney Lake at Boise Creek Park in Enumclaw.
Major League Baseball said the umps were wrong.
Marian Hossa scored twice to back a strong effort by goalie Corey Crawford, and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Minnesota Wild, 5-1, Thursday night in Chicago to win their first-round playoff series 4-1.
Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy played their best first round Thursday in The Players Championship.
The Oakland Athletics, who begin a weekend series at Safeco Field tonight, have a record of 18-18.
First reported by ESPN’s John Clayton, the Seattle Seahawks announced that defensive end Greg Scruggs underwent arthroscopic ACL reconstruction of his right knee at Seattle Surgery Center.
The Tacoma Rainiers have hit a speed bump in Oklahoma City. Winners of 12 of the prior 13 games heading into the series, Tacoma has lost three in a row to the RedHawks, including a 3-1 decision Thursday night.
With an NBA vote on the future of the Sacramento Kings just a week away, a source says the league is encouraging a Sacramento business group to put 100 percent of its $341 million team purchase offer into an escrow account in hopes of persuading the Maloof family, which owns the team, to sign a deal with the local group.
Major League Baseball said the umpires were wrong.
Free the offense.
Parity has struck the NBA playoffs, where the conference semifinals are all fit to be tied.
In a battle for the South Puget Sound League boys soccer title, Isidro Prado-Huerta scored in the final minute to give Thomas Jefferson a 4-3 victory over intradistrict rival Federal Way.
Djimi Traore’s first goal in Major League Soccer changed a game Wednesday, and perhaps the Seattle Sounders’ season outlook as well. Traore’s goal came in the 94th minute — the latest ever for Seattle in MLS play — and it shockingly turned what might have been an encouraging draw for the Sounders into a joyous 1-0 victory over Sporting Kansas City in Kansas City, Kan.
Hundreds of Army officers and senior enlisted soldiers were given a pep talk Thursday from a coaching legend, as Duke men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski paid a visit to Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Jesus Montero summed up the Seattle Mariners’ 2-1 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park succinctly. “That’s crazy what’s happening,” he said. “(Felix Hernandez) pitches. I hit a homer. He wins. Unbelievable.”
Mayor Kevin Johnson is so confident that the Kings are staying put, he's got some advice for the guys trying to buy the team and move it to Seattle: Back off.
They post rounds in the 70s the way duffers pile up double bogeys – very regularly.
The King County prosecutor’s office will not pursue domestic disturbance charges levied against former Seattle Seahawks linebacker Leroy Hill, according to Dan Donohoe, a spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office.
Golden State coach Mark Jackson insisted the Warriors' historic collapse in the opener of the Western Conference semifinals would only help his team's growth.
For the first time in these playoffs, the Miami Heat were facing some real adversity.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – The Oklahoma City coaching staff called it a “snatcher.” That seems like a good word for what the RedHawks did to the Tacoma Rainiers on Wednesday afternoon at Bricktown Ballpark. Trailing by six runs with two outs and nobody on base in the bottom of the ninth inning, Oklahoma rallied for to tie and then won the game in the tenth inning, 7-6.
Three-time All-Pro Ronde Barber is retiring after a 16-year career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that included a Super Bowl title and five Pro Bowl appearances.
Sounders defender Patrick Ianni was injured during preseason fitness testing, and he hasn’t played one second of this Major League Soccer season. That could change tonight, when Seattle visits Sporting Kansas City in what will be the eighth game of its regular season.
Michael Saunders makes a difference to the Mariners every day. Wednesday’s 2-1 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park was a prime example how he has helped since his April 29 return from the disabled list.
Bonney Lake’s Michael Gretler might get fooled in one or two at-bats, but with the game on the line, the South Puget Sound League 3A’s most dangerous hitter usually pulls through.
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