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For over 30 years, the Mercer Island High School football team was directed by head coach Dick Nicholl. He spent years in education, helping guide not only young football players, but students in general.

In honor of those contributions he made, Nicholl will be…

New principals at both Chugiak and Eagle River High will greet students when the 2011-12 school year officially begins this Tuesday, Aug. 16.

Former Eagle River teacher Marty Lang is taking over as the new principal in the school's seventh year in existence.…

Sometime in the first six months after I began working the counter at my first bookstore job, I started offering each customer a sack for their books. I say “started” because no one in the Pacific Northwest or their right mind says “sack.” We say “bag.” Actually, we say “bayg.”

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Look at the football field as you would a game of chance. Where every yard gained in field position is like tilting the odds a little more in your favor.

So it makes sense that the farther an offense has to drive, the fewer points it tends to score. This was, in fact, a mathe­matical…

Sisters Morgan and Ali Parkerson, who combined to make the All-Europe team five times when they played for the Lakenheath Lancers and who now start for the national fast-pitch softball team of Great Britain, can plan on spending part of next summer at the International Softball Federation's…

George Gershwin had a successful Broadway career behind him when he tackled Porgy and Bess, and he put everything he'd learned about stagecraft into his tale of a troubled woman and the three men in her life in the coastal South Carolina neighborhood of Catfish Row: Porgy, the gentle…

Until this summer, perhaps the most remarkable thing about Darren O'Donnell was that he emerged a Cincinnatti Reds fan from a childhood spent in Idaho. Then he took two of his passions -- biking and baseball -- and formed another unlikely combination, attempting to ride his bike to every…

There are no words, Cloe Hussey says, to describe the energy of the women in her boat as they soar across the water to the finish line of a race.

“We might be a couple feet from the finish line, but none of us stops pulling our hardest,” said the University of Portland student. “Crew…

For most of us, our mothers have made a profound impact on our lives. From the intangibles and practical examples, their influences have shaped the people we have become.

This can include setting the standard of daily conduct that includes fair sportsmanship, good…