It’s tough watching a kid who just got his bell rung stand on the sidelines because you know he wishes he could get back out there.
As photos and videos of his thunderous, smoke-spewing dragster flashed across a screen in a darkened room, Jerry Ruth picked up the mic and tried to put his past into perspective.
Tony Davis of Tahoma High School will host an event at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 10 for student-athletes and their parents to learn about the world of college recruiting.
Tahoma High graduate Ian Beckstrom will take the ice to play hockey with Utah State University’s club team this year after playing the past two season with the Seattle Totems Junior A Hockey club.
Reese McGuire didn’t have much time to enjoy Kentwood’s 4A state baseball title in the spring.
The Rock Creek Select 10U, 11U, 15U is holding private tryouts for the 2013 season. If your interested please email tinfo@rockcreeksports.org to setup a private tryout.
The final round results of the NHRA Lucas Oil Division 6 Drag Race at Pacific Raceways on Aug. 19.
Taylor Said and jockey Mario Gutierrez held off Winning Machine and Javier Matias in a furious finish Sunday to capture the 77th running of the $200,000 Longacres Mile (G3) by a head before a packed house at Emerald Downs.
The NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Race Series featuring the top sportsman racers on the West Coast will be at Pacific Raceways track this weekend for a three-day race.
Time for a confession.
I had the opportunity to take a ride in a super gas car with an instructor from Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School Aug. 1 but I couldn’t go through with it.
As soon as I realized I couldn’t do it I felt bad because Jason Fiorito, who is president of Pacific Raceways where the ride was supposed to happen, had personally invited me.
High school fall sports have begun in the Kent and Tahoma school districts.
Water polo is growing in the Kent School District.
John Force, the legendary funny car driver who has won 15 championships in the class, was running around hugging and high fiving anyone who was willing at the starting line after his youngest daughter Courtney won her first national event Sunday at Pacific Raceways.
It was a local boy showdown, Maple Valley versus Covington, in the stock final Sunday at the 25th Annual O’Reilly Auto Parts Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways.
The Sumner-based Bulldogs Blue baseball team went 64-16 this year, winning the 13U USSSA World Series in Southern California.
Reese McGuire of Kentwood High will be included in the 48-player roster for the 2012 Perfect Game All-American Classic presented by Rawlings on Aug. 12 in San Diego, Calif.
Ron Capps has plenty of fond memories of Pacific Raceways.
Capps, who drives the Napa Auto Parts funny car for Don Schumacher Racing, won his first national event title in a top fuel dragster in 1995 at the track which is just minutes from Covington, Auburn and Kent.
Jim Mabry hopes to bring home a Wally on his 61st birthday.
Like many professional drivers in the National Hot Rod Association, Steve Torrence, pilot of the Capco top fuel dragster grew up at the drag strip.
Kentwood graduate Mykala Benjamin was accepted into the University of Mary, starting fall semester 2012.
