Sports
June 7, 2017
Sheriff of the Range
Niles Appleby is the the man in charge of the 43 tees on N.E. 45th Street.
June 1, 2017
Finals week
Rick Welts, president of the Golden State Warriors, returns to the NBA's biggest stage.
Bouncing back
After losing his younger sister in a car accident, Isaiah Thomas found the strength to take the court. Then he scored 53 points in a comeback victory on his sister’s birthday.
Plum gets picked first
Kelsey Plum, '17, is the first UW player to be picked first in a professional basketball draft.
March 4, 2017
A log lost sport
Thanks to a group of adventurous students and staff, log rolling has returned to UW.
Net gain, net loss
Markelle Fultz and Kelsey Plum are as good as it gets in college basketball. And they'll both be gone by summer.
December 29, 2016
Gridiron giant
Under head coach Gilmour Dobie, the UW Football team went undefeated for 10 years.
December 19, 2016
That bat
Axe Bats, a division of Renton-based Baden Sports, had a home run of a 2016 baseball season. Twenty-eight major leaguers used its brand-new “Axe Bat”—so named because its handle is shaped like what you’d find on an ax—at some point during the 2016 season.
December 16, 2016
Ciao, Courtney
The U.S. women’s national volleyball team couldn’t have won the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janiero without Courtney Thompson, ’05.
September 1, 2016
Give Me 5: Kelsey Plum
The senior All-American from San Diego leads the Huskies in the Nov. 11 season opener at home against Eastern Washington — with her sights set on a return trip to the Final Four.
Character: Dave Torrell
Dave Torrell is the founding curator of the Husky Fever Hall of Fame, which opened in 2002. There are 500 pieces of memorabilia celebrating 21 sports, plus 200 Husky Hall of Fame inductees.
June 1, 2016
Give Me 5: Bob Rondeau
The 2016 Husky Hall of Famer talks about some of his career highlights.
True hued
Brock and Damon Huard both found NFL careers and success after their UW playing days, and both felt drawn to come home.
The torch carrier
Letters from a young man's trip to the 1936 Olympics offer hints of the life he would live.
March 1, 2016
Give Me 5
The oldest of six girls, the former basketball player helps student-athletes — from the burliest linebacker to the tiniest gymnast — deal with life, sports and school.