Boosted by owning their own regional sports network, Root, the Mariners’ franchise value jumped 55% over the previous year, according to Forbes.
Author: Adam Lewis
Adam Lewis
An alumnus of Washington State University's Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, Lewis is a sports journalist working at Sportspress Northwest. He spent his first three years in Pullman at the school newspaper writing his weekly column "Backrow Banter" while covering the WSU baseball team. His opinion piece in the fall of 2011 on Cougars football, "The Campus That Cried Wulff" received attention from media outlets throughout the Northwest. The column called for the immediate dismissal of former WSU head coach Paul Wulff. With a family background in the newspaper industry, Lewis's passion for objective sports journalism wins out over passion for his favorite teams. Lewis graduated cum laude from WSU in May. His senior year on the Palouse was spent covering Mike Leach's tumultuous first year coaching the Cougars. At Sportspress Northwest, Lewis will help cover the Storm, Mariners and Seahawks before returning to Pullman in August to cover WSU football's fall camp.
After a decade of teetering between being mediocre and just plain bad, the Mariners are a trendy pick to make the 2015 World Series.
Gonzaga is sick of talking about why it can’t make the Sweet 16. Sunday, the Bulldogs answered the doubters with a convincing win. Louisville also advanced.
Standing between Gonzaga and a trip to the Sweet 16 is perhaps the tallest team the Bulldogs will face this season. That, in coach Mark Few’s estimation, is the biggest challenge No. 2 seed Gonzaga faces when it plays No. 7 seed Iowa at 4:10 p.m. Sunday at KeyArena in the third round of the
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The University of Louisville, in the words of men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino, has made the Seattle area into a “recruiting pipeline.”
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