25th Season at Emerald Downs opens today!
6/24/2020 (Auburn, WA) The 25th racing season opens today, the last time Emerald Downs’ opening day was in June you’d…
Emerald Downs Horse Racing “Family” sets the Example on how to Deal with Covid 19
6/23/2020 (Auburn, WA) There are many beliefs, thoughts and opinions regarding the Covid 19 pandemic including in the tight-nit thoroughbred…
Column: “That Got Me to Thinking…?”; Fantasy Baseball!
6/22/2020 “That Got Me to Thinking…?” Chapter 2 “Fantasy Baseball” By Bruce Williams I’ve had a fantasy baseball team…
24 years ago Emerald Downs opened on this date; track now set to start season 25
6/20/2020 (Auburn, WA) 24 years ago Ron Crockett and his wife Wanda pulled into their parking space just outside the…
Horse Racing: The Round-Up! Belmont Stakes, Emerald Downs and More
6/18/2020 Belmont Stakes There will be lot’s of changes in the running of this year’s Belmont Stakes. The 152nd running…
Column: “That Got Me to Thinking…!”
6/15/2020 “That Got Me to Thinking…!” Chapter 1 By Bruce Williams Prologue The Eli Sports…
Centralia will have Sports; School Board continues work on Budget Shortfall
6/11/2020 (Centralia, WA) The Centralia school board met again via Zoom Wednesday night for their regular board meeting. Since the…
Souls of Hope must not be Wasted
6/11/2020 By Paul Beattie In 5 days we lost two beautiful souls, two young men taken from their families and…
WIAA Update; Basketball Tournaments, Foundation Games and Fall Sports
6/10/2020 (Renton, WA) WIAA Executive Director Mick Hoffman joined us on our last episode of Eli’s High School Report our…
The Hurt keeps coming; Mt Si Senior suddenly passes and the passing of a Broadcast legend
6/9/2020 (Updated with link to story on Dillon) Dillon Garnes was a Senior at Mt Si High School and he…
Through the Storm Clouds, Tyrenn always Shined
6/7/2020 Go-Fund-Me Link to help Tyrenn’s family (Video clips of the Balloon Memorial, an interview with his Coach Michael Bush…
Emerald Downs Changes Plan to Re-Open
6/5/2020 (Auburn, WA) Emerald Downs was ready to open their 25th season with no fans in attendance and only wagering…
Governor’s Office updates guidelines for Summer Sports
It is safe to say that 2020 may be one of the more bizarre years seen in quite some time,…
The Helmet Tournament Champion: The Entiat Tigers
6/2/2020 (Tacoma, WA) Lincoln Head Football Coach Masaki Matsumoto announced this morning that the Entiat Tigers are the Champions of…
Heartfelt Message
5/31/20 By Paul Beattie The title of this piece is as simple as I can make it. This is a…
Centralia High Athletics on the Cutting Board; District says Final Decision has not been made
5/28/2020 (Centralia, WA) The Headline on the Centralia Chronicle’s newspaper was a gut punch to Centralia High School’s athletes, “Centralia…
Is New Media killing Traditional Sportscasting?
5/25/2020 By Paul Beattie, ESN (Centralia, WA) ESPN once again is changing their Monday Night Football announcing crew. As I…
Football in the Spring is not a Fantasy
5/21/2020 (Updated with additional comments from a District A-D) (Centralia, WA) About a month ago and a month or so…
ESN set to unveil new Podcast “Eli’s High School Report” on the NFHS Network
5/20/2020 (Centralia, WA) The Eli Sports Network will launch a new podcast on Tuesday, May 26 and will debut on…
Horse Racing: Prat falls 1 short of Laffit Pincay Jr at SA after big weekend including an Emerald Downs connection
5/18/2020 (Arcadia, CA) Flavien Prat fell one Winner’s Circle picture short of tying the record for most wins in a…