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From Steve Bergum of the SR: “All the guys on our team are like brothers and we’ll do anything for each other,” Senior point guard Derek Raivio explained. “That’s why it (WCC Championship) feels so good.”
To hear that from your most underspoken player, it means ALOT. It’s great to see that these guys have come […]

Val, Paul, and I put together an inaugural podcast for our fan forum, Slipper Still Fits.  You can listen to it here - SSF 001 or here - SSF Podcasts. Please be patient as the file loads - its not that big but may take a couple moments.
Also, wanted to throw a shout out to TalkShoe for enabling […]

Every year it seems that Bubble talk and speculation starts creeping further and further forward in the College Basketball Season. What is a bubble? Who’s on the bubble now? How can you get off the bubble? Why call it a bubble? Is Gonzaga on the bubble after losing 3 games in conference? Is UW on […]

Nick Geranios of the AP sees Gonzaga basketball without buzz this year in a recent column he penned which has appeared in the PI, Spokesman and other outlets. 
Its easy to notice that the Zags haven’t been all over the national media this year, but its really interesting to me that this is even a story.  Gonzaga, a small school in a small town […]

Back in NFL as a Panther, Horn rooting for Saints
“You realize it’s such a small window and it’s so competitive to get in,” said Horn. “I’ve got to do everything imaginable to take advantage of an opportunity when I’m given one.”
“It’s been off and on for a good portion (of the NFL season),” Horn said […]

From Jim Moore of the PI:
“When I play, I play,” he (Ditka) said. “I don’t play 18, I play 36, all day long. If I never played another round of golf, I’ll have played more than any other man ever played.”
Big game for the Hawks in Chicago this weekend. Luckily, Ditka will be at ESPN […]

I always enjoy the flood of 2006 year in review articles and 2007 predications for different segments of our world.  The turning of a new year is a great excuse to find a new calendar and take a look at what has been and what will be.
I looked back at which search keywords brought readers to my blog […]

Whoever hired Joe Lunardi at ESPN is a brilliant human being.  Joe, while also announcing games for St Joes, contributes to the networks college basketball efforts throughout the season and delivers the weekly progress report and outlook for the post season that is brilliantly tagged Bracketology.
Right now, I’m loving that he has Gonzaga as an […]

Today, the NW took center stage on the national sports scene. Its always great to see a couple local stories on the ESPN home page which is usually cluttered with coverage of the overhyped teams from New York or clowns from the great state of Texas. Here’s why today mattered for the NW:
1. the Seattle Seahawks squaked […]

If you went to bed early last night, you missed out on one of the most entertaining college football games I’ve ever seen.  Boise State beat Oklahoma in dramatic fashion.
Here is the footage of the brilliant 2 point conversion statue of liberty call: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyjLESgQMnc
Good for the Boise State Broncos, the city of Boise, and the state of Idaho.

So long as they don’t add black as a secondary color, like every other team selling out to sell more jerseys.
I love reading every article from that Lukas guy on ESPN.com’s Page 2. This week he published one of the more interesting looks at the year that was 2006.  Check it out - The Year […]

College Football Bowl Season is right around the corner and there are some really good story lines out there this year - which I’m sure will be beaten into our heads over the next month. One of them is the success stories at Rutgers and Wake Forest.
I found this historical mascot tidbit interesting.  Lorenzo Perez of […]

Every fall, as the NBA jumps into the sports scene on the heels of another ho-hum World Series, I ask “who cares?”
For whatever reason, the NBA just doesn’t much interest me anymore.  Actually, I don’t think it has since the Celtics were good. Here is why:

Individual games don’t matter. They play 82 games, and between […]

the music brings you back to the movie right away, and the plotline is somewhat similiar, but so far so good.  The best scene to this point showed the coach taking the young sophmore qb out onto the field under the lights on thursday, cranking up the fake crowd noise through the speakers, and instilling […]

Want to go from high school choir boy to NBA bad boy in a short period of time.  Talk with Sonics center Robert Swift.  You’ve got to click through this link and check out the pictures.
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