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Sports
Stadium High School began taking strides toward winning football last season. Now they want it to become their main routine.
In his fourth year as the football coach at Stadium High School, Jess Nelson has established a feeling on the practice field, in the locker room, in the weight room and in the classroom among his players that they can achieve a winning record this 2010 football season. Now, the interesting thing is, nobody among his coaching colleagues who would have winked at his well-known optimism in past seasons are disagreeing with him this time. Read more...
2010 U.S. Amateur: back to the future
By most accounts, the 2010 U.S. Amateur was a hit. Discounting some of the shell-shocked golfers who helped swell the average score to 79.247 strokes per round (and currently visiting their therapists and swing coaches) and some concerns about the hardness of the course’s surface, things are good: the crowds showed up, the best players made it to the last few matches, and, as The News Tribune’s John McGrath pointed out after the tournament, the finals were fun to watch. This was because the contestants, Peter Uihlein and David Chung, were enjoying themselves – an astounding concept for a USGA event, and maybe an occurrence not seen since Greg Norman waived his white towel of surrender to Fuzzy Zoeller on the 18th green in the playoff of the 1984 Open at Winged Foot, after having stepped to the 18th tee eight shots down and asking Zoeller, “Whatta say we play this hole for double or nothing?” Read more...
Golf history on stage at links-style Chambers Bay
The long and wonderful history of the United States Amateur, which encompasses 110 years of golf competition, is what accounts for its prestige among American sporting events. That, and the names of some of its winners: Bobby Jones, Walter Travis, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Lanny Wadkins, Justin Leonard, Billy Mayfair, Scott Verplank, Mark O’Meara, John Cook, Ryan Moore and Craig Stadler, to name a few of the more recognizable winners. Read more...
Young track star takes the world with her feet
Sure, track and field phenom Tierra Crockrell may be a world record-breaking athlete at the ripe old age of 9, but, much like many others her age, she watches cartoons on the weekends (when her rigorous training schedule allows it) and says Disney World is her favorite place on earth (she squeezed it in during a 2009 national track and field championship in Orlando). Read more...
Q&A with Tacoma rainiers’ steven shell
Right-handed relief pitcher Steven Shell is now in his second season with the Rainiers. Drafted out of high school by the Angels in 2001, he averaged 7.8 strike outs per nine innings in his rookie year. Shell made his Major League debut in 2008 with the Washington Nationals. In addition to his pitching duties, he’s also learning how to be a great Dad to his 1-year old son. Read more...
Here is a hole-by-hole of Chamber's Bay Golf Club for the U.S. Amateur. Click here to load the .pdf in a seperate window. Read more...
The rematch of last year’s championship game promised to be a pretty good one. But a funny thing happened on the way to this game. Personal fouls, turnovers and flags galore marred the highly anticipated rematch and if that wasn’t enough, the late arrival of the Bellingham Blitz forced the delay of the game from 6:30 to 7:00, which didn’t sit well with fans who had to endure the 90-degree heat in the process. Read more...
2010 U.S. Amateur: Shotmakers Welcome
It is no strange twist of fate that the three greatest golfers of their eras – Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods – all won the United States Amateur Championship multiple times. Read more...
Links Land: Why Chambers Bay is as pure as it comes
Golf in the early days was always played on commons or links land that bordered the sea. The natural characteristics of this type of land made it easily the most suitable for the game. Read more...
