Saturday, November 16, 2024

Sports in 2020: Disruptions aplenty, only constant was loss

2020 reminded us that the show mustn’t always go on. Disrupted by the coronavirus, sports stopped cold three months in and then started up again in emptied-out stadiums, stumbling, skidding and finally staggering across the finish line — all the while shadowed by loss.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Sports in 2020: Disruptions aplenty, only constant was loss

2020 reminded us that the show mustn’t always go on. Disrupted by the coronavirus, sports stopped cold three months in and then started up again in emptied-out stadiums, stumbling, skidding and finally staggering across the finish line — all the while shadowed by loss.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Teams say Indian names show respect, history says otherwise

Colorful names for teams are nearly as old as team sports themselves.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Teams say Indian names show respect, history says otherwise

Colorful names for teams are nearly as old as team sports themselves.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

DeChambeau has grand plan to cut Masters course down to size

Bryson DeChambeau is golf’s latest litmus test, hammering drives that sound and soar like mortar fire and cut corners in ways golf-course designers and his fellow pros never dreamed.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Anti-doping officials want Armstrong under oath

A televised confession by Lance Armstrong isn't enough.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Some good news from Penn State

Penn State coach Bill O'Brien settled in behind a microphone early in the afternoon for what was, by far, the second most-anticipated talk of the day in and around State College, Pa.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

A frustrated Woods apologized - sort of

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Elway looking for QB in the wrong places

Since joining the Broncos' brain trust in January, the only franchise quarterback John Elway has glimpsed in Denver is the one staring back at him in the mirror every morning. And that guy is 51 years old.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Butler's strong 'D' saves weak offense

INDIANAPOLIS - If you have the box score from this one, put it somewhere for safekeeping. It might be the first game in the history of college basketball where the winning team tries to destroy the evidence.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

'Who Dat?' Brees is Super MVP

MIAMI (AP) — Drew Brees grew up in Texas and started playing for pay in faraway San Diego. But he made New Orleans his home and its cause uniquely his own.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

One-of-a-kind Fuzzy says goodbye to Masters

AUGUSTA, Ga. - The best and worst moments of Fuzzy Zoeller's professional life took place on the same expanse of manicured lawn, a few hundred yards apart.
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

One-of-a-kind Fuzzy says goodbye to Masters

AUGUSTA, Ga. - The best and worst moments of Fuzzy Zoeller's professional life took place on the same expanse of manicured lawn, a few hundred yards apart.
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

One-of-a-kind Fuzzy says goodbye to Masters

AUGUSTA, Ga. - The best and worst moments of Fuzzy Zoeller's professional life took place on the same expanse of manicured lawn, a few hundred yards apart.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO