The Burner: Puyallup’s Head Boys Basketball Coach Resigns
12/21/2020 Regardless of when the boys basketball season can resume this school year the Puyallup Vikings will be looking for…
The Burner: WESCO moves forward with Unique Plan to Re-Start Sports
12/218/2020 The Wesco League in District 1 (North Seattle to Blaine) is moving forward with a different re-start plan for…
The Burner: From the Congo to Camas, the Jacques Badolato-Bridsell story
12/20/2020 The Columbian’s Meg Wochnick has this awesome piece up and is a MUST read on Camas Football player Jacques Badolato-Birdsell.…
Opinion: Although Frustrating Games will be Played this School Year
12/17/2020 We’re all tired but we are also all competitors and we need to finish this thing we are in…
The WIAA Tea: Executive Board updates Sports Re-Start plans
12/16/2020 ***Updated*** After Governor Inslee updated the in-person learning to allow more the WIAA released a statement of optimism regarding…
Emerald Downs: NW Legend Richard Wright Passes Away
Northwest Horse Racing Legend Richard Wright Passes Away By Gary Dougherty 11/28/2020 A Northwest horseman since the mid-1960s, Richard Wright…
Thanksgiving 2020 Reasons to Celebrate
11/26/2020 Thanksgiving 2020. It doesn’t take much to find all the negatives that can and will be associated with anything…
Trending Up: Sam Winter; From torn ACL to D1 Men’s Basketball
11/25/2020 (Boise, ID) Sam Winter graduated from Montesano High School this past Spring and believed his formal sports career was…
Trending Up: Tenino Girls Soccer Coach Kevin Schultz
11/19/20 The Tenino girls soccer team was primed for another run in the state tournament in 2020, but the pandemic…
WIAA makes Strong Statement pushing to re-start School and Sports
11/19/2020 (Renton, WA) WIAA Executive Director Mick Hoffman has released a statement pushing for more opportunities for kids to get…
WIAA Board moves Start Date to February 1 to accommodate State Tournaments
11/18/2020 (Renton, WA) The WIAA Executive Board voted Tuesday night to push back the start of the sports season to…
The Burner: Malachi Flynn, Jaden McDaniels headline 2020 NBA Draft prospects with Washington high school basketball ties
11/16/2020 If you’re itching for some high school basketball, you’re going to have to wait until at least January for…
The Burner: Turning around a program in a Pandemic extra challenging in Rochester
11/15/2020 Playing in a league with the defending State Champions along with 2 other programs regularly in the play-offs is…
The Burner: Foodball scores a Touchdown in Harbor
11/15/2020 Pandemic or not a 39-year tradition to help those struggling was not going to be stopped due to Covid-19.…
Emerald Downs: Post Season Awards “The Horses”; Season Re-cap Part 3
11/9/2020 (Auburn, WA) The post season awards have been announced for the 25th Emerald Downs season. We will go through…
Tumwater’s DuRussel Earns Her Fourth All-American Honor in Cheerleading
(Above: BreeAnna DuRussel’s submission video to the National Cheerleaders Association) By Matt Baide ESN Contributor In a year full of…
Emerald Downs: Post Season Awards Jockeys; Season Re-cap Part 2
11/4/2020 (Auburn, WA) The post season awards have been announced for the 25th Emerald Downs season. We will go through…
The WIAA Tea: WIAA Exec Board sets outline for beginning sports seasons
11/3/2020 (Renton, WA) The WIAA Executive Board met on Monday to determine the process they will use to begin…
Trending Up: Eli’s High School Report Podcast Preview: Eric Trent, From Meth House to Sports Editor
11/2/2020 (Centralia, WA) We haven’t done a lot of preview stories on an episode of our podcast, “Eli’s High School…
Column: “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” Married Dates
11/2/2020 “That Got Me To Thinkin’…?” Chapter 21 “Married Dates” By Bruce Williams When you have two kids and a…