On the Saturday morning of Bloomsday weekend, with the spring sun glorious, we breakfasted at Chaps, Celeste Shaw’s terrific hangout off State Rt. 195 just south of Spokane. Farmhouse feel, pastries to die for, and an overall good vibe – the place never disappoints. That fact apparently isn’t lost ...

When Gonzaga and Texas Tech advanced to the Elite Eight the other night, my mind turned to, of all people, Erroll Knight. The Zags were going to be facing a rangy, slashing off-guard in Jarrett Culver, and didn’t really have an obvious defensive antidote, somebody like Knight. As it happened, Knigh...

My late father had an expression for those drivers who didn’t meet his standards, who were going too fast or who made an ill-advised turn. “All the idiots are out today,” he would say. Decades later, it occasionally still holds true. Some days, the idiots seem to collect on the roads. When they’re ...

On the occasion of another NCAA tournament, I decided to take a dive into the NCAA Final Four record book, which is full of great information (you can find it on www.ncaa.org, go to statistics and follow the links). With Gonzaga’s tournament success in recent years, I wondered how its all-time reco...

However Gonzaga’s basketball season ends – raining confetti or forever lamenting a shot that wouldn’t drop – this much is certain: The Zags have taken their fans on a hell of a ride. Only part of has anything to do with 30 victories. At its most alluring, Gonzaga has elevated its hoops to an art fo...

So … might it happen this March? Might the Gonzaga-Washington series, previously truncated and occasionally tortured, resume in the NCAA tournament? And would Gonzaga want that? OK, I get it: It’s way premature and there are other bigger fish to fry. Gonzaga is licking wounds applied by Saint Mary’...

Actually, no, it isn't, although a lot of Gonzaga fans could swear they heard some ominous rumbling above them Tuesday night. They never would have b...

I think this is where I came in. About three years ago, piecing together a work on Gonzaga hoops, “Glory Hounds,” I opened with an anecdote about how...

A lot of sympathy is due Killian Tillie for his latest injury at Gonzaga, and for all the constituencies that might feel aggrieved over it, his own well-being is the most important. You name it, he seems to have had it in his three years at Gonzaga – sprained ankle and a month out during the Final ...

Happened to catch a Seattle radio segment the other day on which CBS sports bracket specialist Jerry Palm appeared. (Yes, occasionally sports-talk radio here veers dangerously from assessing what Seahawks mini-camps will look like in May and realizes we’re well into college-basketball season.) The ...