Tag Archives: Sports Culture
Shrinking Violet Society

Shrinking Violet Society

As the cornerstone of the Northwest, Washington has a rich and colorful women’s empowerment history. As a frontier town inside of a frontier state, Spokane has it’s own unique feminist heritage to boast. Making a comeback from the housewifery of the 50′s, a lecture society called the Spokane College Women’s Association was founded in 1963 [...]

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Will the Spokane Sports Blogger please stand up?

Will the Spokane Sports Blogger please stand up?

Spokane needs a local independent sports blogger. When I say “local” and “independent” that is exactly what I mean. The vast majority of sports blogs out there are products of the newspaper industry trying to make the digital jump. But for some reason these “sports blogs” don’t seem to be very much fun at all. [...]

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Going Out on a Wall

Going Out on a Wall

Premise #1: There has been an enormous amount of thought dedicated to shaping Spokane as an outdoor sports and recreation hub. Proposals to extend the Centennial Trail and create a world-class kayaking park are just a few of the big plans for branding the Inland Northwest in this way. This vision is often articulated by [...]

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Spokane Record Attempt 2008: Postmortem

Spokane Record Attempt 2008: Postmortem

Unsurprisingly, the well-meaning mobsters from NC failed to set the world record for largest water balloon fight Bloomsday Sunday. At around 3:15 a dwindling crowd of mostly high school students were already starting to dry off in the pre-summertime heat. Spovangelist diagnoses this minor disappointment as a simple case of “Too Little Too Late”. The [...]

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Spokane Record Attempt 2008: World’s Largest Water Balloon Fight

Spokane Record Attempt 2008: World’s Largest Water Balloon Fight

Apparently some recent North Central grads want to set a record for the world’s largest water balloon fight over Bloomsday Sunday. The last time this happened was in Sydney, Australia in 2006. The event was sponsored by Xbox and involved 2,849 participants throwing ~55,000 balloons. Before that the record was held by a group in [...]

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