Date archive: April 2015

Sande: Our Pacific Lamprey are in peril

Like many life forms that most people know little about, the Pacific Lamprey gets very little press. Modern humans find them kind of disgusting. These 12 to 30-inch long slimy eel ...

No way you can really tell who was the greatest at almost anything, especially basketball and boxing

TERRY MOSHER TOM STITH They were debating the merits of LeBron James as one of the games’ best player of all-time, exclusive of Michael Jordan, who was claimed to be the ...

Area’s top 800 runners could put on quite a show

By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper It would be interesting sometimes this spring if just for the heck of it local track and field coaches would hold an 800 race ...

Tanner Zuber soaring with Eagles, will land at PLU for baseball and football

TANNER ZUBER By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper One of the toughest things for a coach to do is coach his son. It doesn’t matter the sport because no matter ...

Dr. John’s rise from ashes reminds me of friends I have lost and I wonder why they died unrewarded?

TERRY MOSHER There has been good reaction from the story about Johnnie Jackson, a guy who survived the black ghetto of Westpark in Bremerton and went on earn his doctorate and to ...

Major League draft will give Daniel Orr the chance to continue on with his dream

DANIEL ORR By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper There’s a chance the West Sound will have produced another professional baseball player once the Major League Baseball Draft is completed in early ...

Central Kitsap sophomore Sara Naumann runs 2:19.15 to win the 800 at Pasco Invitational

Central Kitsap sophomore Sara Naumann set a season best 2:19.15 while winning the 800 Saturday (April 18) at the Pasco Invitational. Her effort helped the Cougars tie for 14th place in ...

The Kochs and the selling off of democracy in the United States

TERRY MOSHER DAVID AND CHARLES KOCH The Koch brothers have decided to spend their $900 million this election cycle on Scott Walker, the great union-busting governor from Wisconsin who says his experience ...

Nolan Van Amen doubles up to help South Kitsap win Eason Invitational

NOLAN VAN AMEN By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper South Kitsap is becoming a track and field power capable of winning the state 4A boys championship this year. If they do ...

Tom Anderson becomes KSBO’s King of the Hill

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 ...

Villarma almost breaks South Kitsap’s mile record

MASON VILLARMA By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper There were two “almost” recently for South Kitsap track and field. Carly Tsurude, a sophomore at South Kitsap was given a long ...

When the smoke clears, hopefully it won’t be Hillary Clinton still standing

TERRY MOSHER HILLARY CLINTON It amuses me (because I can’t cry) to watch what is going on in American politics. When “dead broke” Hillary Clinton starts her presidential campaign by ...

Pumas sign Wonderkid

CARLOS PATINO By Julie Diefendorf Special to Sports Paper The Kitsap Pumas added to their roster for their 2015 National Championship bid by signing much sought after wonderkid Colombian midfielder ...

Traffic, tickets and other stuff for U.S. Open at Chambers Bay

PUYALLUP’S RYAN MOORE Far Hills, N.J.– In its preparation to conduct the first U.S. Open in the Pacific Northwest, the United States Golf Association has released detailed spectator information that will ...

Rouser fifth at Arcadia, gets accepted to Harvard

GARRETT ROUSER Kingston senior Garrett Rouser ran just off his season best of 39.24 in the 300 hurdles Saturday (April 11) at the Arcadia (California) Invitational, clocking 39.29 to finish fifth in ...

Can a top-ranked class that includes Dejounte Murray save Romar’s job?

TERRY MOSHER What is going on with Washington Husky basketball? I don’t have an answer, I’m just asking. We all know Lorenzo Romar is a wonderful human being and if we judged ...

How far can ASU commit Hudson Keffer go with javelin?

HUDSON KEFFER By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper How far can he go? That is the question that will hang out there all spring as Central Kitsap senior Hudson Keffer ...

Will Cruz fizzle out like Hamilton has with the Angels?

TERRY MOSHER WILL THE BUBBLE BURST ON NELSON CRUZ? Josh Hamilton. Remember him? He was the guy the Mariners targeted two off-seasons ago. They almost bagged him, too. In December of ...

Central Kitsap’s Hudson Keffer throws javelin into high school national lead

HUDSON KEFFER By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper I know that kids today have better training methods and have more people helping them train, but some of the early-season track ...

Predictions: Floyd and Kentucky will prevail. But don’t bet on it

TERRY MOSHER It’s been a busy day today, running around and getting a few things done, including sinking more money into another carrier phone switch for our teenage daughter. Why do ...