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There were plenty of mixed emotions when Inês Bettencourt walked off the Williams Arena hardwood in Minnesota back on March 20. The starting point guard for Gonzaga women’s basketball had presumably played her final college game after four seasons split in Spokane and Storrs as a member of UConn.
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="2108"] New Seattle Reign interim assistant coach Lauren “Lu” Barnes smiles while she addresses media at the Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila, Wa. (Qasim Ali / Emerald City Spectrum) [https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/caption] TUKWILA, Wash. — When Seattle Reign defender
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A familiar foe for many of its new rivals, including the Washington State Cougars, the San Diego State Aztecs enter the rebuilt Pac-12 as one of the conference's top additions. While the Aztecs are best known for their basketball success, they have consistently fielded competitive programs in
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Emerald City Spectrum reporter Qasim Ali details a 2-0 win for the Seattle Reign (6-7-2, 10th in NWSL) over the 4th-place San Diego Wave (9-6-2) on Sunday afternoon. Keeper Claudia Dickey managed a career-high nine saves to earn the clean sheet while midfielder
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Embed from Getty Images When Julio Rodríguez popped a two-on, one-out, right-down-Broadway cutter haplessly into center field, it looked like the moment when the downfall was obvious. This downfall, like many, was perhaps better conceptualized as a calque of the word’s German equivalent: going under
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="2499"] Seattle Storm forward Dominique Malonga goes up for a layup during the team’s 110-107 loss to the Indiana Fever on Friday, July 17, at the Gainbridge Fieldhouse. Credit: Courtesy of Seattle Storm [https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/
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Approaching the midway point of the 2025 season, a wide open Offensive Rookie of the Year race had a surprise contender emerge from the Seattle Seahawks’ potent top-five scoring offense in the form of Tory Horton. Falling into the fifth round after missing a significant chunk of his senior
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1578"] Seattle Sounders midfielder Albert Rusnak dribbles the ball during a July 25, 2026 game against the Philadelphia Union at Subaru Park in Philadelphia, Penn. (Sounders FC Communications) [https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/caption] The Seattle Sounders continued their historic
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Although it can be easy to initially brush off a member of Gonzaga head coach Mark Few’s staff moving on to a different program, you would be hard-pressed to find an assistant as impactful as Jorge Sanz was to the Zags. Sanz, who has been in Spokane for
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A former member of the Mountain West, the Utah State Aggies will be among the newcomers set to join the rebuilt Pac-12 this season. While the Aggies may not carry the national brand recognition of some schools, few programs outside the Power Four have been as consistently competitive in
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Despite undergoing surgery in the week leading up to report day for training camp, the Seattle Seahawks don’t have any concerns about safety Nick Emmanwori’s availability to kick off the season with a Super Bowl LX rematch against the New England Patriots. According to sources connected with the
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If you didn’t think it could get worse than a 5-1 loss to Portland, Wednesday was a stark reminder it truly can. Emerald City Spectrum reporter Qasim Ali recaps the Seattle Sounders’ 3-1 loss at 14th-place Austin FC, in which the home team scored twice after