For the first time since the wild-card playoff loss last January in Dallas, the Seahawks will take the field as a whole this week at the VMAC, for what the NFL lovingly terms organized team activities (OTAs).
ARLINGTON, Texas — The continued search for relievers who might help the Mariners this season and moving forward has resulted in another trade.
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Valley Skyhawks were playing their first home game in more than a month. They were 2-0 in the friendly confines of the Town Toyota Center, but the visiting Idaho Horsemen took advantage of Skyhawk turnovers to beat the home team 49-29 Saturday night.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
Ehire Adrianza homered, Max Kepler had two hits and three RBIs, and Martin Perez allowed one run on five hits over 6 2/3 innings to pick up his sixth win of the season and lead the visiting Minnesota Twins to a 7-1 win over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night.
CASHMERE — After rain suspended competition mid-meet Thursday, each of the CTL teams had to reconvene at Cashmere High School Friday afternoon to complete the meet.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 30 points, grabbed 17 rebounds and added five assists as the Milwaukee Bucks took command early in defeating the visiting Toronto Raptors 125-103 Friday night to grab a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference finals.
First-period goals by Ivan Barbashev and Tyler Bozak held up thanks to a 29-save performance by goalie Jordan Binnington, and the host St. Louis Blues beat the San Jose Sharks 2-1 Friday night to even the Western Conference finals at two wins apiece.
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Valley Skyhawks were scheduled to play the Reno Express for the fourth straight time on May 4 in Reno. However, unexpectedly, the Skyhawks were forced to forfeit that game.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
If you ask Washington softball coach Heather Tarr how she plans to deploy her two standout pitchers in the NCAA Regionals at Husky Softball Stadium beginning Friday, she will dance deftly around the question like a base runner trying to avoid the tag at home plate.
Glen Dean remembers the first time he took the court against Damian Lillard.
When asked last season about the professional football prospects of his younger brother, Los Angeles Rams receiver and former Eastern Washington star Cooper Kupp saw a potential self-made NFL linebacker.
It's the time of the year when way-too-early rankings and preseason predictions are dominating the college football world.
It's become a regular occurrence since Mike Littlewood was named BYU's head coach in 2012.
Nelson Cruz received the response he hoped for and definitely deserved in his return to Seattle on Thursday night.
Michael Pineda pitched seven strong innings against his former team and was backed by four home runs as the Minnesota Twins defeated the host Seattle Mariners 11-6 on Thursday night in the opener of a four-game series.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Draymond Green lobbed to Kevon Looney for a go-ahead hoop with 52.9 seconds remaining, then converted a Stephen Curry assist into a layup of his own 40 seconds later, allowing the Golden State Warriors to outlast the Portland Trail Blazers for a 114-111 win Thursday night a…
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Boston goalie Tuukka Rask sent the Bruins to the Stanley Cup Final with a 24-save outing Thursday night in a 4-0 victory against the host Carolina Hurricanes for a sweep of the Eastern Conference finals.
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Valley College women’s fastpitch softball team is headed to the postseason for the 18th straight season. WVC finished the regular season 22-14 in the Northwest Athletic Conference's eastern division.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
EAST WENATCHEE — When it rains it pours, but Thursday afternoon, it dumped as both the Wenatchee and Eastmont track teams competed in the first day of the Columbia Basin Big 9 (CBBN) district meet at Eastmont High School.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Defending champion Brooks Koepka made an inspired start at the PGA Championship with a dominant display that for several hours seemed destined to give him a big lead after the first round on Thursday.
During the first two weeks of May, Seattle Mariners designated hitter Daniel Vogelbach noticed a frustrating trend in his at-bats.
With the hope that his timing issues at the plate and mistakes in the field that seemed to follow are fixed, outfielder Mallex Smith will return to his center field spot for a Mariners team that desperately needs him to be the productive player they expected when they acquired him.
Sounders coach Brian Schmetzer understood the frustration even if a full CenturyLink Field audience couldn’t.
The New York Jets fired general manager Mike Maccagnan on Wednesday, a move that caught the NFL world off guard because of its timing. Such moves are rarely made in May, after a team has basically assembled its roster for the upcoming season.
WENATCHEE — The city’s youth track and field recreation program runs from Monday through June 15.
Bridget Mire
Reporter
The Milwaukee Bucks had not played for seven days, and it showed early in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals on Wednesday night.
Erik Karlsson wasn't going to ask that his goal be overturned. You can't blame him for that.
SUNNYSIDE — A win is a win is a win.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
For the Seahawks, this has been an offseason of amazing efficiency in the realm of roster construction.
Tuesday night, the highest-drafted player in Wenatchee AppleSox history made his MLB debut as Keston Hiura started at second base and batted seventh in his major-league debut for the Milwaukee Brewers.
The Seahawks officially signed Geno Smith on Wednesday setting in place one of the more intriguing — if, hopefully, ultimately meaningless — position battles for Seattle in 2019.
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Dell and Sonya Curry were the first two people I bumped into at Oracle Arena on Tuesday night.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The Boston Bruins have been in some binds in the postseason, but they don't want the luxury of a 3-0 series lead in the Eastern Conference finals to distract them from the mission.
The Mariners seem to have found the cure for what has ailed them the past few weeks:
OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Golden State Warriors are so used to playing in the Western Conference finals, they were in no hurry to do it for a fifth consecutive year Tuesday night.
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Panther fastpitch softball team trounced Eisenhower 15-3 as they opened the district playoffs on Tuesday. The game ended in the bottom of the fifth, shortened due to the 10-run mercy rule, by a Kalista Strickland 3-run homer.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
EAST WENATCHEE — The greens were fast and the pin placements difficult, but that seemed to have little effect on the Wenatchee Panthers, who tore up the Wenatchee Country Club and Highlander over the past two days in the Big 9 District Golf Tournament.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
The New Orleans Pelicans won the draft lottery on Tuesday and will pick first in the 2019 NBA Draft on June 20.
Gonzaga forward Killian Tillie won't be attending the NBA Draft Combine after all.
If Jon Ryan couldn't stay with the Seahawks or in the NFL, then going home to keep playing the game he loves is undoubtedly the next best thing.
SEATTLE — They've fielded teams with league MVPs and multiple All-Stars that went on to win the WNBA title.
Depth could make the difference when the well-rested Milwaukee Bucks host the opener of the Eastern Conference finals Wednesday night against the Toronto Raptors, who were extended to the last possible second before winning a dramatic seventh game Sunday.
The last time Robert Bortuzzo scored a playoff goal, he was in the first of his three seasons in the Ontario Hockey League. It was the spring of 2007, and he was 18 years old.
YAKIMA — The Wenatchee Panther boys and girls tennis teams continued their stellar season with victories at the District 6 Tennis Championships at West Valley High School on May 11. Temperatures roses into the mid-90s as four teams vied for four spots to 4A State, one boys singles, one girls…
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
YAKIMA — Garrett Evans took the kids to task again on Saturday. And the schooling was fairly easy for the 63-year-old wily veteran, whose biggest challenge came from his own dang feet.
TACOMA — Mike Cameron, a former All-Star for the Seattle Mariners, spent many of his afternoons this week roaming the outfield at Cheney Stadium.
Gonzaga is one of five schools on USC grad transfer Derryck Thornton’s list.
After the Seahawks’ three-day rookie minicamp May 3-5, coach Pete Carroll assessed “it was hard” on all three of the quarterbacks in attendance, strongly hinting at the team making a change in the depth chart at that spot to add to the competition behind Russell Wilson and Paxton Lynch.
In what Doug Baldwin termed a "letter to my younger self," the now-former Seahawks receiver took to Twitter on Sunday night to unveil a 20-tweet thread that served as both a retrospective on his football career and an apparent official retirement notice.