A Fair Tournament
Ideally, baseball and softball state championships should be determined by a double-elimination tournament -- in other words, you have to lose twice to be eliminated and you can still win the tournament with one loss but coming back through the loser's bracket. This is because, especially in baseball, of the ...
John Laird's Elitism
The fault lies not in our labels, but in ourselves. Fortunately, it's not fatal.
Building A Big Bridge
The new I-5 bridge should look to the real future, not some utopian vision of corrupt ideologues
Jeanne Stewart's Break With Group Think
The Vancouver councilwoman takes a refreshing approach to mass transit -- listening to the public instead of the planners
Mike's Led Kite
The "UFO" kite is an amazing piece of work
In Search Of A Close Shave
The other day, I walked into one of them new-fangled tonsorial parlors up in Battle Ground (that would be "barbershop" for those of you too young to remember) and asked for a shave. The gal wielding the clippers and the comb and scissors said they don't do that any more. ...
Big Ten's Big Beatdown
After a New Year's Day beatdown, Big Ten football seems in disarray for the 2011 season
Bow Down To Washington -- For A Minute, Anyway
OK, I admit it. I said that for Washington, the Holiday Bowl might as well be the Laura Nyro Bowl, meaning it was gonna take a miracle. Laura lives. Huskies 19, Nebraska 7. Understand, this is/was the same Big Red bunch that schooled Washington in September, running the Huskies right ...
Football Delayed Is Not Football Denied
So the Eagles and Vikings aren't teeing it up till Tuesday night? A two-day postponement of an NFL game because of a major blizzard that hit the East Coast on Sunday was greeted with a level of outrage usually reserved for things that actually....you know, matter. Even the governor of ...
