Mary Harvill reports from the hottest basketball tournament on the planet.
Maybe you were watching the SportsCenter Outdoors live broadcast from Spokane’s Annual Hoopfest 3 on 3 tournament on Sunday morning, June 28th. And maybe you heard it was really hot in Spokane.
But did you know how hot it REALLY was?
How about 108 degrees on a paved city street, clinging to the one nearby tree from 7:30 a.m. until 6:00 in the evening?
After spending my first year as Hoopfest volunteer sequestered in a tent on the edge of Riverfront Park, I thought I would up the ante a little bit and become a court monitor. The Nike swag (a cool pair of Nike shoes, shorts, t-shirt and hat) was the deciding factor for me. Oh, what we’ll do for a little swag…. Continue reading Hoopfest Forever→
With the radio on, I was driving toward Spokane along Highway 2 in early June when an opportunity jumped out at me.
“…We really need more football officials because we cover three hundred plus youth football games each year,” the voice said.
Such was the demand for new referees, the voice continued, that it was likely applicants would actually get to work games in the coming season.
I can imagine the audience to whom this plea for help was intended. I didn’t imagine it was an invitation aimed at a widow with a daughter just out of college.
How the U.S. Department of Justice’s COPS review of the Spokane Police Department’s Use of Force practices misses the mark.
By Tim Connor
Friday afternoon, as I was midway through reading the DOJ Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) report released earlier in the day, I flashed on a memorably funny line from a William Least Heat Moon article about beer. After he and a companion had traveled far and wide to sample the best of American micro-brews, the drinking partner takes a swig from a store-bought bottle.
Spokane’s new police oversight commission is finally seated, and launches its first key challenge to the City’s police department.
Tim Connor
As of this morning, it’s actually been 616 days since Spokane voters approved Proposition 1, an amendment to the city charter that was supposed to require independent investigations of citizen complaints against police officers. Continue reading 615 days, Plus One→
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