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…
WIAA Proposing Drastic Changes to State Basketball Tournaments
(Renton, WA) The WIAA is looking at making some drastic changes to the State Basketball Tournament format and have offered…
Emerald Downs set to open next month
5/13/2020 (Auburn, WA) The Washington State Horse Racing Commission voted on Friday, May 8 to approve a 44-day race meet…
WIAA passes new rules for next year
5/11/20 (Renton, WA) The WIAA representative assembly recently concluded their voting period on 23 proposed changes from the Winter Coalition…
Analysis: Will selection committees really make a difference?
5/9/2020 (Renton, WA) On Friday we ran the story on the WIAA moving to a selection committee system for all…
WIAA Board passes Seeding Committee Format for all Team Sports
5/8/2020 (Renton, WA) The Executive Board of the WIAA passed a resolution that would change how all the team sports…
AD’s on the move
5/6/20 (Correction: Nick Mullin is still teaching at Timberline, we apologize for our mistake.) The Spring time is known for…
WIAA preparing for all scenarios this Fall including shifting sports seasons
5/4/20 (Centralia, WA) “Our job is to create and offer as many opportunities for students to learn and compete in…
Opinion: Sports, the great escape!
4/22/20 By Josh Kaiser, ESN Broadcaster As the state of Washington is a little over the one-month mark of being…
Opinion: High School Sports Hard Lessons this Spring
4/6/20 As we all sit and wait for the anticipated re-opening of everything in our daily lives it is hard…
ESN’s Re-Live the Maddness Coming Soon!
4/2/20 (Centralia, WA) The Eli Sports Network will begin our own version of “Re-Live the Maddness” a series of Washington…
ELI’S ALL TOURNAMENT TEAMS FROM THE Tacoma Dome(4A, 3A)
(Tacoma, WA) Here are our selections for the Eli Sports All-Tournament teams. This is after we have had time to…
Eli’s All Tournament Teams from the Spokane Arena (2B, 1B)
(Spokane, WA) Here are our selections for the Eli Sports All-Tournament teams. This is after we have had time to…