They’re not playing games, running races or jumping into the pool just yet. But high school sports are back.
Their numbers are low and they don’t have a home to call their own.
Omare Lowe has been down this nomadic path before.
You could say the former Tahoma High star has spent a lifetime bouncing from home to home – whether in the National Football League or during a tumultuous childhood – and it would be no exaggeration.
But with each stop, the ever-resilient Lowe always has managed to put adversity aside and land on his feet.
Rainiers baseball: at Sacramento RiverCats, 7:05 p.m. (KHHO 850 AM).
Seahawks preseason football: vs. Chicago Bears, Qwest Field, 6 p.m. (KONG, KIRO 710 AM).
Another week, another golf title.
Frustration has melted into determination for Kevin Kooyman.
Walking the Washington State University football sidelines wondering what could have been – or what likely should have been – can do that to a guy who possesses an inner drive nearly as big as he is.
In the workaday world, Ruta Biteman has done some heavy lifting as a caterer. Amy Weimar is all about precision with her various instruments as a dental hygienist. And Jaclynn Moergeli does double-duty, dealing the cards at an area casino while working toward her masters degree in counseling.
Malia Arrant and Jimmy Dunn agreed that the results weren’t exactly what they wanted.
There were no scorecard glitches this time.
For Auburn’s Dave Villwock, it was the right place, the right time – and the right speed.
Jeff Bernard will be happy to take any spot in the finals – as long as it’s not fifth place.
Name a city in the U.S. or abroad and, chances are, Toby Mollett probably has been there at some point.
Malia Arrant was in Colorado with her Dosveedanya girls soccer team when the phone call came: Would her squad like to fill a suddenly-open spot in the U.S. Club Soccer regional tournament?
They dreamed big.
But Chuck and Elena Stowell never imagined things would snowball quite like they have.
Or in such magical fashion.
The couple’s only daughter, Carly, a Kentlake High School student-athlete, died on April 12, 2007 of an acute cardiac arrhythmia.
Boeing, Microsoft, Starbucks, grunge rock, and the Space Needle got some fast company this past weekend. National Hot Rod Association headliner Tony Schumacher painted himself into the Puget Sound mural along with those local icons.
Rui Li, who stars for the Kentwood High golf team, won the girls 16-17 age division with a 1-under-par 71 in the final Washington Junior Golf Association District Six sub-district tournament last Monday at Lipoma Firs Golf Course in Puyallup.
To those standing in his corner, Grant Higa is larger than life.
The Maple Valley native and professional strongman is only 5-foot-8 in a field of towering competitors. But Higa isn’t fazed by the opposition — as long as his family joins him on the sidelines.
“The best feeling in the world is hearing my wife and daughter cheering me on. It’s the greatest,” said Higa, who competes in the heavyweight division.