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I’d be quite OK with it if Utah signed most, if not all, of the wayward Oregon State Beavers. Start with Beers (I’ve been wanting to use the title We Can Haz Beers? for days). Then Hunter, Pourova, Hansford, Van Oelhoffen. If Kelsey Rees wanted to come back, hey, open arms. I’m actually looking forward […]

Sometimes you think of a good title for a piece. When Utah sophomore Lani White hit the transfer portal, I thought: “Lani, we hardly knew ye”, a play on the 1972 best-selling Kennedy memoir Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye. I couldn’t think of much in support of the title, though. If any of the 2023-24 […]

The Pac-12 ended not with a bang, but a whimper. It was possible for seven Pac-12 teams to reach the round of 8. Southern Cal and Oregon State succeeded, but were stopped there by UConn and South Carolina. Except for #5 Colorado winning at #4 Iowa State, the Pac-12 won no up-pairings. Since the Covid-abbreviated […]

A rationale for Edwards’ offensive foul call with 3 seconds left in the Iowa-UConn semi-final: If you were facing Edwards — I’m assuming the referee was — you see her eyes move in the direction of the physical contact. From that point of view, I think he saw three lines of force on a collision […]

I said Spokane, Wash., was a fine place to visit, with a downtown full of historical markers, and new corporate logos on the faces of old buildings. So was Boise, Idaho. Boise has the best wine bar I ever visited twice, and I won the 2014 Idaho Open chess tournament there. East of Spokane, and […]

The Pac-12 ended not with a bang, but a whimper. It was possible for seven Pac-12 teams to reach the round of 8. Southern Cal and Oregon State succeeded, but were stopped there by UConn and South Carolina. Except for #5 Colorado winning at #4 Iowa State, the Pac-12 won no up-pairings. Since the Covid-abbreviated […]

The McCarthey Center is sold out. 5990 people here to see Gonzaga complete a sweep of its home games, and advance. Plus a 10-person group that I think is Kennady McQueen’s family. This region must be stuffed with people who think it’s natural to shoot colored people in the name of national security and oil […]

How about that Brooke Demetre!? Stanford makes a habit of recruiting players who go unnoticed until they rescue Stanford in an elimination game. Near the end of the 2021 tournament, I couldn’t remember if I’d seen Ashten Prechtel before. Who’s this kid making a flock of 3-pointers to save their season? A reporter said about […]

At 4 a.m., I still have two games I want to watch. Here’s why I don’t relish #5 Utah’s chances against #4 Gonzaga Monday night: Gonzaga has shorter lapses. The people who use “chess match” as a metaphor for A/B models think chess is an “I move, you move” thing comparable to “relief pitcher in, […]