WENATCHEE — Don West, KPQ host, wrestling commentator and professional pitchman, among other hats worn throughout his career, died Friday morning.
Mitchell Roland
World staff writer
WENATCHEE — Don West, KPQ host, wrestling commentator and professional pitchman, among other hats worn throughout his career, died Friday morning.
World staff writer
DOHA, Qatar — The first (and possibly last) December World Cup ends this weekend with two soccer powers meeting in the final.
AL KHOR, Qatar — The glass slipper didn't fit. The coach turned back into a pumpkin. The dress ball ended without so much as a date.
Already the unofficial winner of comeback of the year for his return to St. Louis and captivating surge toward 700 career home runs, Albert Pujols received Major League Baseball's official honor Tuesday night.
It had to be Gareth Bale, didn't it.
Washington State more than doubled its season average on made 3-pointers, burying 15 on Monday night in the Spokane Arena — while burying Eastern Washington in the process 82-56.
Following a brilliant rookie year that set multiple records for Major League Baseball and the Mariners, all that's remaining in the award season for Julio Rodriguez to earn/win is the Jackie Robinson American League Rookie of the Year.
No one can accuse the Seattle Kraken of being top-heavy.
West Coast Conference Commissioner Gloria Nevarez is on the move, accepting the same position with the Mountain West Conference.
FORT WORTH, Texas — I feel compelled, for once, to begin with three answers to the basic question.
ST. LOUIS — As I sat across from Vinko Bogataj at a St. Louis coffeeshop, I just kept thinking — how the hell is he here today?
WENATCHEE — Desert Canyon golf pro Rob Clark makes his competitive PGA debut Thursday at the Senior PGA Professional Championship in New Mexico.
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HOUSTON — Yordan Alvarez smacked a walk-off, three-run home run with two outs in the ninth inning as the Houston Astros rallied from a trio of four-run deficits to defeat the Seattle Mariners 8-7 in Game 1 of their American League Division Series on Tuesday in Houston.
HOUSTON — Paul Sewald approached Robbie Ray in the far corner of a quiet visitors' clubhouse.
CHELAN — Mackenzie Lamey had never touched a wave until June last year, but over the holiday weekend, the Wenatchee resident represented Team USA in an international surfing competition.
DENVER — Two Wenatchee boys soccer teams competed in a national tournament this week, rounding out the 2021-22 season.
CHELAN — The Chelan Rustlers Saddle Club hosted its second pro rodeo Friday and Saturday with more than 100 Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association members competing for buckles, titles and prize money.
Perhaps the greatest Olympian, Jim Thorpe, is back on top.
COMMERCE CITY — One Wenatchee boys soccer team won big in Colorado over the weekend, earning a national title.
CHICAGO — U.S soccer men’s and women’s national team players will receive equal pay and prize money, including at World Cups, after they came together to agree on landmark collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) with the U.S Soccer Federation on Wednesday.
BEIJING — Beijing Olympics organizers said on Thursday that zero new COVID-19 cases were detected among athletes and team officials on Feb. 16, the first time no symptomatic infection was found since a daily count was published.
ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Norway's Johannes Thingnes Boe won the men's biathlon 15km mass start to claim their 15th gold medal at the Beijing Games on Friday, a Winter Olympics record achieved due to the country's high level of professionalism across the board.
BEIJING — Irene Schouten of the Netherlands scooped up her second Beijing Olympics gold medal when she won the women’s 5,000 metre speed skating event on Thursday, as the Dutch team continued to dominate on ice.
YANQING, China — Skier Shannon Abeda, competing for Eritrea in his second Olympics, hopes to see more diversity in an overwhelmingly white sport, but worries that the backlash over the qualification of some nations is tainting a diversity push in Alpine events.
The nation’s relentless culture wars appear to have taken a toll even on the NFL, with a large number of Republicans saying they have soured on the league and expressing disapproval of its efforts to improve the treatment of Black players, a new Los Angeles Times/SurveyMonkey poll shows.
Former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores has filed a class-action lawsuit against the NFL, New York Giants, Denver Broncos and Dolphins alleging racial discrimination in the hiring processes across the league.
During the 1996 season, Mariners general manager Woody Woodward asked Mike Goff, the team's manager of the Class A Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, who he felt were the "untouchable" players on his team. In other words, the ones with too much promise to give up in a trade.
SEATTLE — It’s something that will frighten your dog and give your children nightmares.
It is quite a thrill when someone from our area achieves something significant and does so with a sense of grace, humility and humanity.
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LOS ANGELES — Golfer Tiger Woods was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital on Tuesday after suffering multiple injuries when his car went off a road and rolled over, requiring the jaws of life to extricate him.
NFL chief medical officer Dr. Allen Sills said playing the 2020 season kept players and the general public healthier, with a fractional positivity rate since testing began in August.
Kevin Durant returned to the court for the first time in 18 months on Sunday night and was pleased to get that step out of the way.
After decades of swimming against the cultural tide Augusta National was in step with the times on Monday announcing Lee Elder, the first Black man to play the Masters, would join Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player as honorary starters next year.
The Seahawks have re-signed receiver Josh Gordon, according to his agent, David Canter, who tweeted the news Thursday morning.
TACOMA -- Mariners prospect Taylor Trammell wanted to have some fun with his new general manager. When Seattle GM Jerry Dipoto called Taylor to welcome him to the organization earlier in the week, he pretended like he had no idea he'd been traded from San Diego.
When it comes to television viewing that isn't baseball-related, Mariners general manager Jerry Dipoto is more of a Food Network viewer than HGTV. He's a food guy, who has the "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" locating app on his phone and makes you download it to get on his eating level.
As the biting curveball snapped into the strikezone, freezing Luis Rengifo in surprise without a swing and allowing home plate umpire Malachi Moore to make an emphatic strike three call to end the top of the eighth inning, Marco Gonzales charged off the mound toward the first base dugout of …
When “Trader Jerry” and “Always Awake A.J.” have the proper motivation to make trades, something like this shouldn’t be surprising.
RENTON — A day after an emotional team meeting led to a decision to cancel practice — and then a roughly 15-minute statement by coach Pete Carroll to the media — the Seahawks got back to normal Sunday.
The 2020 MLB season has been historic in many ways, including for organizations not affiliated with professional baseball.
A maximum of 13,000 fans will be allowed at Hard Rock Stadium for the Miami Dolphins' home game on Sept. 20 against the Buffalo Bills.
It's not fair to Kyle Lewis to make the comparison directly, but he plays baseball with such a casual easiness -- and with such soothing joy -- that it's hard not to remind one at least a little bit of a certain Hall of Fame center fielder who starred in Seattle in the 1990s.
SEATTLE — They dot the stands, a virtual throng of Mariners fans, in silent and perpetual vigil throughout this oddest of baseball seasons.
Daniel Vogelbach will get another chance to find his power-hitting production from a year ago at the major-league level.
Breanna Stewart and Jewell Loyd scampered around the court. Natasha Howard finished with authority. And Sue Bird dropped long-range daggers beyond the three-point line.
A night after combining for 20 runs on 26 hits with seven homers in a never-ending slowpitch-softball-like slugfest, the Dodgers and Mariners delivered quite the opposite with a more normal form of baseball Tuesday in the finale of the two-game series at Dodger Stadium.
U.S. Open organizers said on Tuesday that they were happy with the slate of competitors for this year's tournament, despite numerous dropouts by high-profile names amid the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.
After a long, bumpy journey, the second-highest MLB draft pick to previously play for the Wenatchee AppleSox has made his major-league debut.
Eleven down, 11 to go.
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