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A Grip on Sports: Sometimes the NCAA tourney is a numbers game and those don’t seem to favor Gonzaga much tonight

The Spokesman-Review 22 Mar 2025
A GRIP ON SPORTS • First thing this morning? Checking my brackets – plural ... ••• ... … Dave Boling’s column from Kansas? He looks at the throwback that is Braden Huff ... ... But, as Dave Nichols tells us, the Chiefs let it all slip away and lost in a shootout.
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Grip on Sports: Zags’ fast start allow them to ease into second-round showdown against region top-seed Houston with another Sweet Sixteen on the line

The Spokesman-Review 21 Mar 2025
A GRIP ON SPORTS • Take a breath. One NCAA day is done. Another long one begins ... Upset stomachs. Chewed fingernails ... … Dave Boling’s column delves into Few’s team peaking at the perfect time ... We can pass along Dave Nichols’ roundup of Thursday’s action ... ….
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A Grip on Sports: The madness that infects March is about to ramp up, not just on the court but in the transfer portal as well

The Spokesman-Review 19 Mar 2025
A GRIP ON SPORTS • At about 2 a.m ... Spring ... And mud ... Dave Nichols spent his Tuesday night at Lewis and Clark High, watching as the best basketball players in the Greater Spokane League showcased their talents in the Greater Spokane Basketball Showcase.
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A Grip on Sports: Though the NCAA tourney begins tonight, there is still time to make plans or, if you want, you can just wing it

The Spokesman-Review 18 Mar 2025
Dave Nichols has a roundup of Monday’s high school competitions. … If you want to venture out to watch hoop tonight, Dave’s baby, the Greater Spokane Basketball Showcase, is at Lewis and Clark High tonight.
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A Grip on Sports: A blind test reveals the NCAA’s selection committee had a myopic view and ended up with seedings only Mr. Magoo would love

The Spokesman-Review 17 Mar 2025
One with huge consequences ... ••••••• ... –– ... –– ... We start with Dave Boling’s column, in which an old fogey – my peer group too – uses newfangled stats, formulas and algorithms to make an argument the Zags were handed a raw deal ... Dave Nichols has the story.
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A Grip on Sports: The upcoming week, including this afternoon, will be dominated by NCAA tourney talk – and games – so we better get some other news out of the way

The Spokesman-Review 16 Mar 2025
It’s lucky for us all that Jim Meehan, Theo and Dave Boling are around ... … Dave sees a possible long run ... We can pass along the first big roundup from Dave Nichols’ first big Saturday of spring sports.
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A Grip on Sports: When the NCAA bracket is announced Sunday, there is a good chance we will all learn, once again, the NCAA’s duplicity

The Spokesman-Review 15 Mar 2025
A GRIP ON SPORTS • For some reason the NCAA always seems to fail when it tries to introduce transparency or logic to its business model. Case in point ... It is all a smoke screen. ••••••• ... Makes sense ... The NCAA Evaluation Tool ... Dave Nichols has this roundup.
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A Grip on Sports: We’ve always appreciated good writing and reporting, especially from those in our generation, which is why John Feinstein’s death hit us hard

The Spokesman-Review 14 Mar 2025
A GRIP ON SPORTS • It will come as no surprise books have played an oversize role in my life ... Books about sports too ... ••••••• ... The best-selling sports book of all-time ... But as Dave Nichols relays, there will be basketball all-star games again this year.
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Roger E. "Butch" "Yogi" Shreve - exploreClarion

Explore Clarion 13 Mar 2025
Roger E ... Roger was a graduate of West Forest High School in Tionesta ... Roger was surrounded by wonderful neighbors the Nichols, the Wolfes, the Allios, the Gibsons, the Prestos, the O’Conners, Dave Manross, Eric McCleary, Al Johnson, and the Hanelys ... .
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A Grip on Sports: Some folks can rest easy today but for others – including Seahawk fans – the future’s uncertainty weighs heavy

The Spokesman-Review 13 Mar 2025
A GRIP ON SPORTS • There is something soothing about having an NCAA bid secured ... ••••••• ... Maybe ... ••• ... Dave Nichols was there and has this coverage ... … The Yankee fans have to get to know Dave Sims, the former M’s broadcaster who is now on their radio team.
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Five irresistible pancake stacks to try in North Jersey

Daily Record Parsippany 12 Mar 2025
Libélula Kitchen in Montclair NJ restaurant serves Tres Leches Pancakes ... North Jersey is home to excellent pancakes ... Constructed by James Haywood and Dave Nicholls in the U.K., the kindergartner-sized tower of flour consisted of 213 cakes ... Go ... Go. 611 N.
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Justice Secretary tries to stop Essex Boys killer Michael Steele being released from jail nearly ...

The Daily Mail 11 Mar 2025
Former Met Police DCI Dave McKelvey, who led the review for his private investigation firm TM Eye, was Nicholls’ arresting officer and had been convinced of the pair’s guilt before looking into the case.
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College basketball coaching changes: La Salle hiring Radford's Darris Nichols; Kevin Keatts out at NC State

CBS Sports 09 Mar 2025
La Salle plucked Darris Nichols away from Radford, sources told CBS Sports. Nichols spent the past four seasons with Radford and won 68 games ... Darris Nichols ... Nichols got the nod after a few low-major coaches from the northeast were heavily looked into.
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Dave Nichols: The awesome, daunting, exhausting, thrilling, stressful, humbling responsibility of covering state basketball

The Spokesman-Review 09 Mar 2025
I’m writing in this space for a couple of reasons, none of which is I have nothing better to do ... With the late start and our early deadlines, we’ll be lucky to publish G-Prep’s final score and a snippet in the paper ... It’s fun ... .
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A Grip on Sports: The spring forward was made more challenging by last night’s anticipated – and long – wait for basketball games to finish

The Spokesman-Review 09 Mar 2025
Dave Nichols was in Tacoma to cover the 4A/3A games and he did that, with this story on the Central Valley win, this one on Prep’s title and another one on Mt ... … Cheryl Nichols has a summary of the rest of the B games for the girls and boys.
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