Date archive: June 2013
I have enough problems (so does Assad) without thinking about the Mariners and the Seahawks
My life is spiraling out of control and I can’t stop it. It’s my age. The world is speeding up and I’m slowing down. Been doing a little walking and taking a ...
The Coyotes may find soft-tossing Kieffer a diamond gem
Dylan Kieffer By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper It’s different when a baseball coach is concerned his pitcher might change for the worse as the velocity on his fastball increases, but ...
Fredericks, grandson, and the Tampa Bay punter from Ferndale
By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper Bob Fredericks has done a lot for the sports world in the West Sound community, and before retiring had a high civilian job at Puget Sound ...
Summer of my Youth, Part II
I don’t know why everybody was so fascinated with the little stream up Deer Creek, but it was a big thing to bike up from Portville (N.Y.) the three or four miles, ...
The beginning of the summer of my youth
This has been nagging me for 40 years. Now it’s dragging me down and I think it’s about time did something about it. So for however long it takes me, I’m going ...
Locals crash bowling nationals and expect to cash
Steve Force By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper The USBC Nationals is a big thing around the country for bowlers, and it’s no different in West Sound. There are a ...
Don’t pin greatness label on James just yet.
Like I said, LeBron James is not tough. He allowed a relatively unknown – Kawhi Leonard – to shut him down in game three Tuesday. Great players just do not get slapped ...
Bainbridge varsity girls eight crew
The Bainbridge varsity girls eight crew shares a lighter moment after intense racing June 9 at the U.S Rowing Youth National Championships in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. From left: coxswain Maia McNett, Justeen ...
Bainbridge varsity lightweight four crew
Bainbridge varsity boys lightweight crew that finished second at the U.S. Rowing Youth National Championships June 9 at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. From left, Nick Entress, Thomas Musselwhite, coxswain Timmy Taylor, ...
Bainbridge rowers battle hard to take second place at U.S. Nationals
From left, coxswain Timmy Taylor, Nick Entress, Alex Derry, Keegan Dymoke, Thomas Musselwhite Photo by Geoff Entress By Peggy Musselwhite Special to The Sports Paper The Bainbridge varsity boys lightweight ...
A picture from the past
This is a photo from about a 100 years ago of Lane C Dowell (40) when he played on a Hoquiam basketball team that over two years went 62-3, suffering one of ...
Butt slap gets Johnson butt-headed into the slammer
So Chad Johnson slaps his attorney on the butt and the judge chances her mind and sentences him to 30 days in jail. Johnson was there for a domestic violence charge and ...
It does appear there are more idiot sons than just one
For a number of years, my mother has referred to me as her “idiot son” because I continue to play basketball after surgeries for hip replacements, torn meniscuses and my back. Typically, ...
Toughness wins, as Jordan and Bird proved, and as LeBron James proves in reverse
TELLING IT LIKE IT IS I don’t think this is unexpected news: I like tough guys. I would take tough guys over more talented guys every time. You win with toughness, no ...
The guy who says everyday is a great day and wants you to have a great day is retiring
By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper Four years ago, North Kitsap District School teacher Clary Carlsen ended 35 years of coaching at the middle school, junior high and high school levels ...
Magic, Michael, Larry, LeBron and Wilt are our best of all time
There is a national debate going on right now over who are the best basketball players in history, by position. There is a qualifier to this debate. It is difficult to ...
First umpiring job was just too much for local ump
Quote of the day I reported to (Navy) duty at Bangor from San Diego in 1987 and they (the Peninsula Umpires Association) told me I had this assignment and I started thinking ...
Yogi used to spit out the words where they weren’t
Did any of you pass the recent sports trivia test? Are you asking yourself, “Test? What test?” Well, let me tell you: In a recent edition of your former favorite weekly ...
Where oh were is Tom Tennis?
Does anybody know where the whereabouts of Tom Tennis? That’s the question posed today to his sister, who lives in Nevada. Her answer is that the last contact she had with ...
Northwest Washington Wrestling Club gets boost from Thor and Lars
By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper The Northwest Washington Wrestling Club has become one of the best clubs in the state and it shows by what its wrestlers have done recently, including ...
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