Posts Tagged ‘Spokane’

April 1st, 2008 | 02:31 am

A disappointing finish

Well, that sucked.

Just when it looked like we’d all be heading to Tampa next week, the Terrapin women’s basketball season ended here in Spokane on Monday night.

The Terps played well in the 98-87 loss. But Stanford played one of the best games I have ever seen.

Candice Wiggins was ridiculous, scoring 41 points and showing incredible range.

After the game, Crystal Langhorne, Marissa Coleman, Kristi Toliver and Brenda Frese all had tears in their eyes when they walked into the press conference.

Langhorne started sobbing when she answered her first question, and Frese started crying again when Langhorne did.

Langhorne and Laura Harper sat consoling each other in a corner of the Terps’ locker room afterward, and nobody seemed willing to believe that the season was actually over.

After following them so closely for the past several months, it was definitely tough to see it all end.

The Terps had a good run. It’s too bad they couldn’t keep it going for one more week.

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March 30th, 2008 | 01:24 am

A Big Win, Spokane’s Scenic Route and The Fonz

The Terrapin women’s basketball team dominated Vanderbilt tonight. The consensus among the assortment of media and the Terps themselves was that the 80-66 win was the Terps’ best all-around performance in a very long while.

Kristi Toliver mentioned games against Oklahoma and LSU that were played back in November as the last performances that were similar to this.

After Diamondback photographer Adam Fried and I left the rather generic Spokane Arena after the game, we decided to walk the mile or so back to the hotel instead of wait for a taxi.

It didn’t take long before we were extremely confused about where we were, and we ended up crossing the bridge over a large river, and crossing another bridge farther down going the other way over the river before we found the hotel.

It turned out we made a huge circle around a good chunk of Spokane. The hotel really wasn’t that far from the arena.

We did get to see some pretty nice scenery though, as the rapids in the river were pretty impressive, and since we’re on pacific time, we still made it back before 10 p.m.

And speaking of impressive sightings, there’s a rumor that Henry Winkler, a.k.a The Fonz is in town for reasons unrelated to basketball.

John Willmott of the WMUC radio crew took a picture with Winkler in the airport yesterday, and Fonzi is apparently staying at the same hotel as the Terps.

He is reportedly in town to make an appearance at some sort of show or event with the actor who played Ralph Malph in Happy Days and the actress who played Shirley in Laverne and Shirley.

Spokane is obviously the place to be this weekend.

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March 13th, 2008 | 04:08 pm

You ever been to Spokane? You’ll love it.

While writing my story for tomorrow’s paper about the Terrapin women’s basketball team likely headed to the Spokane regional, I was inspired to do some research about the city I might be visiting in a few weeks barring another catastrophic second-round upset (or a spot in a different region).

In case you didn’t know, Spokane is in Washington state. But it’s not in the cool part of the state on the coast near Seattle. It’s over here, kind of close to Idaho…and Montana.

The population of Spokane is approximately 195,000 Spokanians.

Spokane has an abundance of natural resources. Especially wood.

Spokane offers biking, boating, climbing, conservation, fishing, golf, hiking, sightseeing, and winter sports expeditions.

Some famous people from Spokane include Bob Crosby, Chad Little and John McIntire.

Spokane is the home of the 2006 arenafootball2 (minor league Arena League Football) champion, the Spokane Shock.

This monkey bit three people in Spokane and was euthanized. It did not have rabies.

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