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Sports
Loggers and Titans will be on display
Local college and CC teams host games this weekend
Area college and junior college basketball fans will have plenty of choices to view games this weekend. Both University of Puget Sound teams are at home for their first home Saturday games of the New Year, and Tacoma Community College is on its home court as well. Read more...
Foss, Bellarmine meet in key matchup
Some calendar entries just kind of speak for themselves: Foss at Bellarmine Prep, on Jan. 8, 7 p.m. Read more...
The subject before us is a review of local sports in 2009 and a selection of the most interesting moments or events and an attempt to determine the best story of the year. Read more...
Wilson Coach Dave Alwert and players changing directions in division
From pretender to contender. In recent years under previous regimes, Wilson’s basketball fortunes floundered at the bottom of the Bridge Division standings. Read more...
UPS’ Levien dominates another season
In 2009, the women’s soccer team at UPS was engaged in not so much a season as a mission. And it wasn’t one for the faint of heart. Read more...
The Puget Sound Loggers women’s basketball team did something that no other squad had done this season, defeating the 23rd-ranked Cal Lutheran Regals, 56-48, in a NCAA Division III women’s basketball game last week in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Read more...
With more balance in the Narrows League than in recent years, basketball fans will enjoy close races
The geometry is sweet, but the conclusion after a small sampling of games in the Narrows League is impossible to extrapolate: Wilson beat Lincoln, which beat Foss, which beat Wilson. Mt. Tahoma beat Bellarmine Prep, which beat Central Kitsap and Olympia, which both beat Mt. Tahoma. Read more...
Barcomb’s Strategy for great Success
Why the UPS women’s team is always so good is not really a mystery
They come from Hawaii, they come from Alaska, from California, Oregon and Washington. They come to the University of Puget Sound to play basketball and to learn. And they all learn one thing very quickly: that basketball they were playing in high school? Uh-uh. Nope. Not going to cut it here. Read more...
There is some objection, we have been informed, in certain water polo circles to Wilson High School’s claim to the title of state champion. Read more...
Tony Anderson on sister cities, sports
Tony Anderson has been involved with Tacoma’s Sister City programs since 1991 and with the Tacoma Athletic Commission (TAC) since 1993. Last summer, Anderson took a team of Tacoma high-school baseball players to Japan for the 50th celebration of the Sister City program. Anderson was interviewed for Tacoma Weekly by Karen Westeen. Read more...
