The Helmet Tournament Champion: The Entiat Tigers
6/2/2020 (Tacoma, WA) Lincoln Head Football Coach Masaki Matsumoto announced this morning that the Entiat Tigers are the Champions of the Washington State Football Helmet Challenge. We had a chance…
Centralia High Athletics on the Cutting Board; District says Final Decision has not been made
5/28/2020 (Centralia, WA) The Headline on the Centralia Chronicle’s newspaper was a gut punch to Centralia High School’s athletes, “Centralia School District cuts all Sports”. The story by Celene Fitzgerald…
Is New Media killing Traditional Sportscasting?
5/25/2020 (Centralia, WA) ESPN once again is changing their Monday Night Football announcing crew. As I was reading the story I noticed in the comments the clamoring for old school…
Football in the Spring is not a Fantasy
5/21/2020 (Updated with additional comments from a District A-D) (Centralia, WA) About a month ago and a month or so into the new reality we are all living with there…
ESN set to unveil new Podcast “Eli’s High School Report” on the NFHS Network
5/20/2020 (Centralia, WA) The Eli Sports Network will launch a new podcast on Tuesday, May 26 and will debut on the ESN/NFHS Sports Networks. “Eli’s High School Report” will air…
Horse Racing: Prat falls 1 short of Laffit Pincay Jr at SA after big weekend including an Emerald Downs connection
5/18/2020 (Arcadia, CA) Flavien Prat fell one Winner’s Circle picture short of tying the record for most wins in a single day on Sunday just missing his 7th win which…
WIAA Proposing Drastic Changes to State Basketball Tournaments
(Renton, WA) The WIAA is looking at making some drastic changes to the State Basketball Tournament format and have offered up 3 proposals and are now looking for feedback from…
Emerald Downs set to open next month
5/13/2020 (Auburn, WA) The Washington State Horse Racing Commission voted on Friday, May 8 to approve a 44-day race meet at Emerald Downs in Auburn beginning on Monday, June 22.…
WIAA passes new rules for next year
5/11/20 (Renton, WA) The WIAA representative assembly recently concluded their voting period on 23 proposed changes from the Winter Coalition meeting this past January. There were several eye catching changes…
Analysis: Will selection committees really make a difference?
5/9/2020 (Renton, WA) On Friday we ran the story on the WIAA moving to a selection committee system for all team sports and not just football. The move was made…
WIAA Board passes Seeding Committee Format for all Team Sports
5/8/2020 (Renton, WA) The Executive Board of the WIAA passed a resolution that would change how all the team sports would be seeded into the State Tournament. All sports teams…
AD’s on the move
5/6/20 (Correction: Nick Mullin is still teaching at Timberline, we apologize for our mistake.) The Spring time is known for baseball, track, better weather and Seniors gearing up for graduation.…
WIAA preparing for all scenarios this Fall including shifting sports seasons
5/4/20 (Centralia, WA) “Our job is to create and offer as many opportunities for students to learn and compete in a safe and fair way.” That quote from WIAA Executive…
Opinion: Sports, the great escape!
4/22/20 By Josh Kaiser, ESN Broadcaster As the state of Washington is a little over the one-month mark of being locked down, it’s given me a new perspective on so…
Opinion: High School Sports Hard Lessons this Spring
4/6/20 As we all sit and wait for the anticipated re-opening of everything in our daily lives it is hard not to think about and be sad for this year’s…
ESN’s Re-Live the Maddness Coming Soon!
4/2/20 (Centralia, WA) The Eli Sports Network will begin our own version of “Re-Live the Maddness” a series of Washington State Basketball highlight shows. Our National Network partner the NFHS…
ELI’S ALL TOURNAMENT TEAMS FROM THE Tacoma Dome(4A, 3A)
(Tacoma, WA) Here are our selections for the Eli Sports All-Tournament teams. This is after we have had time to reflect, look at stats and input from the ABC Jam…
Emerald Downs Season in Question
3/19/20 The Seattle Times has a story on the current state of Thoroughbred racing at Emerald Downs. The Times’ Scott Hanson’s story can be read by clicking here.
Eli’s All Tournament Teams from the Spokane Arena (2B, 1B)
(Spokane, WA) Here are our selections for the Eli Sports All-Tournament teams. This is after we have had time to reflect, look at stats and impacts from all of the…
Still hope for Spring Sports and Championships
3/16/20 ***Story Updated with comments from District 4 Director Tim Graham see bottom of story. (Renton, WA) The WIAA has yet to scrap the Spring sports Championships slated to begin…