For years they have waited and planned for this, hoping that recruiting efforts and the heavens would one day cooperate. And now that the planets, point guards and post players have apparently aligned, Central Washington's women might well be ready.
6 p.m. -- PGA of America, Grand Slam of Golf, final round, at Koloa, Hawaii (TNT) ... 11 p.m. -- PGA Tour Australasia and European PGA Tour, MasterCard Masters, first round, at Melbourne, Australia, same-day tape (TGC)
For more than 20 years, the Great Alaska Shootout has grown from the best-kept secret in college basketball to an event people all over the country expect to watch on TV every Thanksgiving weekend.
A dozen people have been killed in Anchorage due to youth violence this year alone, but one man is using his past and pocketbook to save future lives. Mao Tosi almost became another gang statistic in the mid 1990s, but intervention by dedicated teachers and coaches instead elevated him to athletic greatness. Now, Tosi hopes to provide East and West High school students the same intervention and
Wednesday, November 15, 2006 3:32 PM CST Alaska and England are not considered the hotbeds of basketball talent, but the University of Kentucky men's basketball team has signed two players from those locales to letters of intent.
Mao Tosi is working to help give at-risk high school students an alternative to a criminal life. He has developed an after-school program called the Poly Pride Club that rewards members for good grades and keeping out of trouble. Tosi is working to provide more services and programs to students of East, West and Bartlett High schools and also hopes the city will develop an urban liaison position
