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posted 2019-01-22 11:28
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The first time Brock Ravet cast up a shot Monday at the King Showcase in Kent, it was from near-Steph Curry territory on the right wing. “Oh, my God,”...
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posted 2019-01-16 20:05
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You might have missed this angle Tuesday night, but an old friend of Gonzaga came oh-so-close to doing the Zags a solid. Leon Rice, the 12-year GU ass...
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posted 2018-12-31 16:40
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Fired in December? Who gets fired or furloughed in December, except football coaches and federal workers? But you’d have to say Steve Alford earned it...
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posted 2018-12-18 18:42
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Among the outcomes of the autumn trial resulting from the FBI investigation into college hoops was this: Silence, from the guardians of the game. Thre...
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posted 2018-12-07 21:05
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Sometimes it seems as though Gonzaga basketball started in 1999, so much scrutiny is given to the Zags’ unlikely launch to prominence that year and th...
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posted 2018-12-03 11:00
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In a mention last week of Wednesday night’s Washington-Gonzaga basketball game in Spokane, one account – we won’t mention names; it’s the holiday seas...
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posted 2018-11-26 17:46
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Most of the hoo-ha over college-basketball rankings Monday had nothing to do with Gonzaga, and maybe that’s fitting. The Zags powered through Kansas i...
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posted 2018-11-21 19:11
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So much was made nationally of Duke’s fabulous start against Kentucky, and its nonpareil freshman class, that it obscured the chance Gonzaga might hav...
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posted 2018-11-13 19:01
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The question, on a Gonzaga message board, got me to thinking. It asked if there was even slight concern the Zags might not live up to the considerable...
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posted 2018-11-02 15:32
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Gonzaga’s breakthrough to the NCAA basketball championship game two years ago not only put the Zags in a new and celestial territory, it changed the w...