Coach: Butch Goncharoff, 8th year (87-8 record)
When high school football kicked off Thursday night, it began a new era for the sport in the city of Bellevue.
For the first time in, well, since anyone can remember, conference shakeups have tossed aside familiar foes and fierce rivalries.
You can’t blame Sammamish coach Edd Webb if he’s not sad to see Newport, Skyline and Issaquah head to KingCo 4A. It’s nothing personal, he says; Webb and the Totems are just happy to see them go.
Today is more important than any other day for Washington head football coach Tyrone Willingham. Not that he’d admit it.
As the Wolverines conduct their defensive practice on the field below, Bellevue High School football coach Butch Goncharoff ponders from the grandstands the situation his team finds itself in this season.
For the Newport Knights, it seems the 2008 football season will be all about answering questions.
Tomorrow marks the start of 23 weeks of madness.
This is the third in a series of columns focusing on golfing opportunities for Bellevue residents from the eyes of a true amateur. Previously reviewed courses include the Golf Club at Newcastle and Willows Run. This week’s course: Tam O’Shanter Golf and Country Club.
Despite a torrential downpour that soaked the Interlake High School opening football practice, head coach Sheldon Cross could only smile while talking about his team’s chances at a playoff berth this season.
Two Bellevue-area football players will spend a year at an East Coast prep school to try and enhance their chances to land a scholarship at a Division 1 college football program.
It took less than a second for Usain Bolt to go from gold medal champion and world record-holder to world-class jerk.
Reece Anderson should have died eight months ago.
After a trip to Pullman in December for the graduation of a friend’s sister, the driver of the car in which Anderson was riding fell asleep at the wheel. The car flipped eight times as a result.
“The doctors told me that I should be dead,” Anderson said.
A pair of Eastside baseball players recently returned from a prestigious baseball tournament with eyes towards competing in another this weekend.
Note: this is the second of a series of columns reviewing local golf courses available to Bellevue golfers from the eyes of a true amateur. The first column covered Newcastle Golf Course and appeared in the Bellevue Reporter on July 30.
The following is a listing of players with Bellevue ties playing professional baseball. If you know a player who should be added to the list, please call Joel Willits at 425-453-5045 or e-mail him at jwillits@reporternewspapers.com.
It was one of those magical events. One of those Olympic moments where the result simply shocks, where the brain screams, that the eyes simply cannot believe what they just saw.
There’s one thing for certain about Erin Tsutsumoto’s summer job: the view is to kill for.
The Newport senior has the best seat in the house – at Safeco Field.
Tsutsumoto is in her second year as a ball girl for the Seattle Mariners, where she shags the various foul balls that come down the line during the game.
Liz Strathy-Merrill and her husband, Nick Merrill, are taking the marathon to an all-new level, all for a cause in which the two fiercely believe.
The Bellevue couple will run 200 miles from Portland to their Bellevue neighborhood, each of them running 25 miles a day, almost a complete marathon for four-straight days August 26-29.
Fast. Tough. Reliable.
These are the traits Bobby Engram possesses on the football field, the traits that helped the wide receiver lead the Seahawks last season in receptions and receiving yards. The same traits that allow a 35-year-old man to continue to excel in a young man’s game, to become the team’s most valuable receiving threat.
The following is a listing of players with Bellevue ties playing professional baseball. If you know a player who should be added to the list, please call Joel Willits at 425-453-5045 or e-mail him at jwillits@reporternewspapers.com.
