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posted 2020-06-12 15:41
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Bud WithersWrote recently here about how the NBA “tournament” in Orlando later this summer (and fall) will affect collegians exploring the league’s draft Oct. 15...
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posted 2020-06-05 17:44
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Bud WithersWhen the NBA burped up its plan to restart its 2019-20 season the other day, one of my thoughts was: Hell of a way to prepare to win a national champi...
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posted 2020-04-20 17:59
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Bud WithersHad a long conversation late last week with Mike Roth, the Gonzaga athletic director, about the unsettled state of affairs in college athletics. And w...
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posted 2020-03-30 16:26
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Bud WithersWhen news broke the other day in the Spokane Spokesman-Review about a home-and-home series between Kansas and Gonzaga in the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seaso...
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posted 2020-03-19 15:52
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Bud WithersAs I’m writing this, between sessions of thatching the lawn, the first basketballs of the NCAA men’s tournament were to be bouncing in Spokane. Thursd...
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posted 2020-03-16 14:23
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Bud WithersMy last dream on the night before Selection Sunday went like this: The office called and proposed doing a story on how the tournament might have looke...
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posted 2020-03-11 20:35
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Bud WithersSo you’ve wondered about those funky, end-of-October closed scrimmages that college basketball teams stage at neutral sites? The ones unfettered by me...
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posted 2020-02-23 15:50
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Bud WithersOnce the BYU students had stormed the floor, and coach Mark Pope had gotten done lavishing praise on just about everybody in the house wearing a “Y” s...
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posted 2020-02-10 17:18
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Bud WithersFor Gonzaga basketball fans, it was an unusually enlightening Saturday. The Zags learned all sorts of things, starting with the morning’s annual baske...
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posted 2020-02-04 17:06
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Bud WithersWe’ve been hearing for years about what it’s like on the road for Gonzaga in the West Coast Conference. So I decided to find out for myself. Well, mys...
