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posted 2021-11-01 13:09
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These days, there are a lot of things I don’t get. For example, I don’t get how conservative America decided to throw in with an oily, grifting con ar...
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posted 2021-09-10 12:37
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Most of the chatter around Mark Few these days has to do with what he might have done to somebody else when he was picked up on suspicion of drunken d...
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posted 2021-08-20 16:12
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When Mike Roth walks out of his Gonzaga athletic director’s office for the last time Aug. 31, he’ll graduate to a lengthy, personal, to-do list. At le...
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posted 2021-06-08 14:46
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“Just put a quarter in me,” Mike Roth would say self-deprecatingly, in reference to his facility for waxing long in answer to media questions. Well, R...
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posted 2021-04-07 10:49
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As a kid in the Midwest, my very first brush with college basketball was with the Ohio State Buckeyes, with Jerry Lucas and John Havlicek and Larry Si...
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posted 2021-03-15 14:02
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The question for Mark Few curled out of Rece Davis’ mouth, needing to be asked yet somehow the uninvited guest at your party. “Would it be a disappoin...
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posted 2021-03-04 16:04
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Far beneath the surface of anything that really matters in college hoops is the relationship between Oregon and Gonzaga. The Zags’ Mark Few, of course...
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posted 2021-02-22 13:06
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This being the era of hot takes, we'll take the bait. Those Zags: If only they could shoot. Hot enough for you? OK, there’s supposed to be a kernel of...
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posted 2021-01-19 18:58
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The conversation began with the obligatory smack chatter. “I haven’t watched you play a whole game,” Ray Giacoletti said over the phone to Mark Few fo...
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posted 2020-12-31 15:48
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Heard a TV announcer the other night note that Gonzaga was No. 4 in the nation in shooting percentage. Which elicited nothing much more than a “Meh.” ...