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THE FRONT ROW with MARK NELKE: Diamond on the sideline — Paul Mortensen has been a fixture on the Coeur d'Alene High football chain gang for 29 years
"I've always been active in sports," Mortensen said recently, on the visitors' sideline just before a Viking home …
Northwest Notes
NEW ORLEANS — The Idaho Vandals tied for third in the Sun Belt Conference last year and won their first bowl game since 2009, but apparently the rest of the league’s coaches weren’t all that impressed.
Lums U16 clinch state berth
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Northwest Notes
Nyquist finishes with an RBI
Sometimes, the best golf lessons are off the course
Sometimes you learn more about an athlete or a team in defeat than you ever would in victory.
From nerves to national champ
Brelane Huber wasn’t satisfied with how her freshman year finished as a member of the Post Falls High wrestling team.
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EWU picked to finish second, Montana sixth in Big Sky football
Elite shines; Showcase set
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Lums U16 suffer first loss at Washington 'A' districts
SPOKANE — Brandon Filler drove two runs for the Coeur d’Alene Lumbermen U16 team, but Whitman County got a walk-off single in the bottom of the seventh and beat the Lums 7-6 at the Washington class A American Legio…
Making his way on the Motocross scene
To get to his highest of highs on a motorcycle, it took a bit of a low to get Athol native Ryan Breece to push himself.
Farragut Fling finds a new champion
The Farragut Fling has crowned its second champion, but the tournament’s previous victor might have felt like a bigger winner after last weekend’s competition.
Lums 16U tops 14U squad
COEUR d’ALENE — Seth Hanson, Bode Bailey and Linden Thompson had two RBIs each to lead the Coeur d’Alene Lumbermen 16U past the Coeur d’Alene Lumbermen 14U squad 12-2 at the Washington class A American Legion distr…
Indians hold on against Volcanoes
SPOKANE — Cristian Ino hit a solo home run and Austin O’Banion had an RBI double to lead the Spokane Indians past the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes 2-1 in Northwest League baseball on Monday night before 3,885 at Avista S…
Louie-McGee, Gubrud named to preseason all-Big Sky football team
Redshirt sophomore receiver Jerry Louie-McGee of Montana, a former Lake City High standout, was one of three Griz named to the 2017 Big Sky Conference Preseason All-Conference Team announced Monday by the league.
Now greed making NFL brain cases even sadder
Once we understood about concussions and various other long-term brain issues suffered by NFL players, it was heartbreaking.
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