Date archive: May 2014

“It’s just a game, dad”

CLAY MOYLE AND SON CALEB     Sometimes I wonder if my kids haven’t figured it out long before I ever will. My daughter Grace just turned 16 this month and she’s ...

Returning to Hank Williams as the mainstream moves on down the road

    TERRY MOSHER Maybe I have become full circle. I discovered Hank Williams as a young teen, grabbed on and didn’t let go until I was closing in on 40. But ...

Western Thatching Ants can be good neighbors, but a bit mysterious

  EARL SANDE   My first encounter with the famous ‘western thatching ant’ occurred during the early 1960s while visiting relatives near the town of Tenino. Like most kids of that era we ...

The sweet science book by Steve Canton is well worth the read

CLAY MOYLE AND SON CALEB   In May of 2014, I received a phone call from Steve Canton, a fellow member of the International Boxing Research Organization (IBRO). He wanted to know ...

New high school basketball rules include allowing players to release from foul lane as ball is released by foul shooter

 INDIANAPOLIS, IN — Players in marked lane spaces will be able to move into the lane when the ball is released by the free-throw shooter beginning with the 2014-15 high school basketball ...

How Northwest Washington Wrestling club wrestlers did at state freestyle and Greco-Roman, all 43 of them

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 ...

Predicting the finish of the super tight Olympic League baseball race is crazy, just as predicting Stevens will win the Kentucky Derby aboard Candy Boy is equally as crazy

TERRY MOSHER It’s possible that in my nearly half-century of watching local high school sports, I may have seen a tighter baseball race then that which currently exists in the Olympic League. ...

Racism, Thunder in danger, Jeff Gallagher or Miah Davis as Bremerton coach, Klahowya winning streak, Putin too, love does, and Rescue Freedom go to the Boneyard

TERRY MOSHER   It time again to get rid of all the stuff that has my mine on overload. My mind is like a steam kettle and sometimes I have to open ...