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A Grip on Sports: Whenever another childhood sport hero dies it gets us thinking about what they meant to that part of our life

A GRIP ON SPORTS • No matter if you are 18 or 81, you’ve met people throughout your life. Sometimes meeting them means not ever actually, you know, being face to face. Case in point: athletic heroes. We all have them. And as you speed down the highway to your ultimate destination, those heroes exit the race more and more often. Another one of ours did Saturday.

A Grip on Sports: The sun greets us earlier this time of year, which means we have more time to delve into our weekend plans

A GRIP ON SPORTS • One ironic aspect of doing this feature every day revolves round the sun. As in, it wakes us up earlier this time of year, when the magnitude of sports coverage we are interested in lags a bit. Football and basketball seasons correspond with shorter daytime hours, meaning it’s pretty easy to oversleep. The opposite is true in late April.

Red state coal towns still power the West Coast

In the early morning light, it’s easy to mistake the towering gray mounds for an odd-looking mountain range — pale and dull and devoid of life, some pine trees and shrublands in the foreground with lazy blue skies extending up beyond the peaks. But the mounds aren’t mountains.

A Grip on Sports: From Augusta to Corvallis and many spots in between, we wonder what the future holds in store

A GRIP ON SPORTS • We expected to have the Masters’ first round streaming on our computer this morning as we wrote. It’s become something of an early April tradition, watching pros try to hit the green at the par-5 second with their second shot, all the while misspelling some poor Big Sky basketball player’s name. Alas, this year the weather in Augusta did not cooperate.

A Grip on Sports: Nothing, not even the rating numbers, about the weekend has shocked us thus far though there is still a lot to come

A GRIP ON SPORTS • We’re not sure there is anything we want to write about this morning. Nothing pressing, that’s for sure. Oh, there is a little matter of a NCAA title on the line, and maybe history, for Caitlin Clark, Iowa and finals opponent South Carolina. And then there are the post mortems concerning Purdue’s and Connecticut’s decisive semifinal wins in yesterday’s men’s tournament. But, really, we all knew today – and tomorrow – was coming.

Lisa Gardner: It’s past time to stop harboring regional hate

Sundown towns are defined as all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States that practice racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory laws, intimidation, or violence directing non-whites, mainly Blacks, to leave the town by sundown.

A Grip on Sports: The portal isn’t just available to athletes, in a different way it is available to everyone – and is used – from the top on down

A GRIP ON SPORTS • We’re not very good with Excel. Or any other database software. We still feel more comfortable with some paper and a couple pencils. But maybe it’s time to join the late 20th Century and figure out some sort of number-crunching software. If only to keep track of all the transfer stuff in college hoops. Players, coaches and more.

A Grip on Sports: This is the time of the year when good feelings don’t last long – but neither do the bad ones

A GRIP ON SPORTS • The good feelings Thursday night? Lasted about four innings. Maybe less. The good feelings tonight in Detroit and Portland? We’ll see how long they last. The good feelings in Pullman? They received a bit of a boost from the baseball team, though everything else was kind of dour. Yep, it’s a late-March Friday, when the sporting seasons overlap.