Month: November 2016

High school basketball has returned after eight-and-a-half hoop-less months. Rejoice! The most enjoyable of all Washington’s prep sports is back.

The following thousand-or-so words are designed to prepare you— ostensibly a person who hasn’t spent large chunks of the past week googling high school kids—for the season ahead. This will focus on the western side of the state, both because that’s where the finest basketball in the state is mostly played and because that’s my area of quasi-expertise. Without further ado, let’s dive in.

About Nathan Hale…

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The game itself is cool, but it’s all the other stuff that really makes college football fun: the mascots, the fans, the uniforms, the absurdly jacked strength coaches, and, most especially, the names.

Who could forget LaDainian Tomlinson? Craphonso Thorpe? BenJarvus Green-Ellis? Alge Crumpler and Ndamukong Suh and D’Brickashaw Ferguson? They are the characters in our weekly bacchanals of violence, the collections of syllables announcers blurt out that make us say, “Wait, what’s that guy’s name?”

So without further ado, here are the best of the bunch in the Pac-12 this year.  Continue reading “The 2016 Pac-12 All-Name Team”