Date archive: June 2013

Part II: College jobs at San Jose State, Portland State and club tennis litter Betty Rankin’s background

By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper Part II Betty Rankin had gone through an uneasy, but thoroughly learning year in Springfield, Mass., and now she was eager to get back ...

Barnum and Bailey and the Big Top have nothing on A-Rod

Bumming around town with Bill Bumerton Bumerton is a retired Navy fighter pilot who had been missing in action for several years while he traversed the globe looking for greener grass. He ...

Oregon, Hernandez, DOMA all hit the fan at the same time

Bumming around town with Bill Bumerton Bumerton is a retired Navy fighter pilot who had been missing in action for several years while he traversed the globe looking for greener grass. He ...

Retirement? What retirement? Poulsbo’s Betty Rankin keeps on motoring

By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper Part I of II A couple years ago the University of Washington corrected a fault that was systematic throughout the country and gave ...

If the prez can’t lead, he should get out of the way

Bumming around town with Bill Bumerton Bumerton is a retired Navy fighter pilot who had been missing in action for several years while he traversed the globe looking for greener grass. He ...

Joey James Dean, his music, his family, and now the 2013 MLB All-Star game in the Big Apple

By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper JOEY JAMES DEAN Bremerton’s Joey James Dean has been making music most of his life, and continues to make it whenever he can pick up ...

Bobby Blue Bland, Dolphins of Hollywood, and the four amigos cruising downtown Los Angeles late at night

It was a bitterly cold day when the four amigos got in a car and drove from New York State to Los Angeles. The cold and the desolate ...

Sincere leads Bremerton Jaguars’ top dozen to regional Junior Olympic track and field meet

By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper De’Andre Sincere has picked up where he left off in the Central Kitsap Junior High track and field season this spring. Sincere, an eighth-grader who led ...

Cleaning up on Westport Chinook

EARL SANDE AND FRIEND After the last two fantastic June Chinook seasons in the ocean off Westport, Steve Thorniley and I were wondering with great anticipation all winter what this season would be ...

Going light: backpacking made fun and a good book to help

BILL HOKE If it’s been years since you went backpacking and all you can remember is how bad that old backpack dug into your ribs, bent you over and made you ...

The limp toward Hoopfest continues

CLAY MOYLE There is less than a week to go until the beginning of Hoopfest in Spokane and our quest to compete in the 3-on-3-tournament division for those over 50 years ...

Camping in the Mountains – How Our Children See It.

On the Trails With Bill Hoke What do our local children see when offered the opportunity to create a drawing or painting under the theme of “camping in the ...

Those quick Jaguars may sprint all the way to Junior Olympic Nationals

Bumming around town with Bill Bumerton Bumerton is a retired Navy fighter pilot who had been missing in action for several years while he traversed the globe looking for greener grass. He ...

Some sports Myths may be just that — always myths

CLAY MOYLE I caught the tail end of a movie on television titled Major League II with my son this past weekend. I’d forgotten how funny it was. Near the end ...

Uncovering the smiling face, the unsung hero of the Bremerton Family YMCA

JULIE ROSEBRAUGH By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper There have been drastic changes to the Kitsap Family YMCA in Bremerton ‑ including a name change ‑ since what used to ...

Some day the top one-percenters will come tumbling down

Two things are on my crowded mine: the Snowden affair and the one-percent affair. On the first item, I hate to agree with Dick Cheney, but in a war with terrorist ...

Mason Lake view from Brian Thomas’ family cabin on the lake

Reaching into the past to get a man’s man team to defeat the Stark Truth team

This is the anti-response to the column my colleague and friend Chuck Stark threw down in the Kitsap Sun on Thursday (June 13). He named his all-time team regardless of sport and ...

Oh how very true

Joe Perdue, a West Bremerton High School graduate who owns a golf course in Maine, posted this below on Facebook. It struck us here at the Sports Paper as very true. Dalai ...

No coach is safe today, not even Spoelstra

Miami’s Erik Spoelstra and San Antonio’s Gregg Popovich expressed their dismay with the recent firing of successful NBA coaches and how the good organizations retain their coaches for long period of times ...