Gonzaga’s rival is undisputed.

As the semester comes to a close, so does my reign as coach, general manager, team commissioner and head cheerleader for my fantasy football team. 

Last week, I gave some of my closest friends and family the great honor of choosing my starting lineup for the prestigious fantasy football team I have been cultivating throughout the fall semester. I sought out the advice from neither the athletic elite nor seasoned fantasy football veteran…

This is the seventh installment of a seasonlong series.

This is the fifth installment of a seasonlong series

Nigel Williams-Goss was named to the Bob Cousy watch list, an award given to the top point guard in Division I men’s basketball. He is one of 20 players on the list. 

The Gonzaga women’s basketball team has hired Nneka Enemkpali as the team’s new video coordinator. She joins the Zag family after an unlikely journey to basketball, a stellar college career and a short stint in the Women’s National Basketball Association. 

This is the second installment of a season-long series. 

Don’t get me wrong: Football season is like Christmas in September. I love everything from anxiously watching training camp updates to the smell of hot dogs on the grill at a tailgate. And coming from a university without a football program makes the NFL all the more exciting for me.  But th…

An entire city shut down for basketball. 7,000 teams, 3,000 volunteers, 225,000 fans and 450 courts. 

I’m suddenly awoken by a harsh ringing sound. This can’t be right. I grab my phone to turn off my alarm, and to my dismay, see the time displayed as 5:15 a.m. I groan and struggle to get out of bed. My head is in a fog as I dress in the dark while attempting to make as little noise as possib…

A gray-haired maestro sits stoic on the sideline. Three Hall of Famers’ bones ache and creak while roaming around the court, each step a precious, calculated output of energy. The latter days of spring have arrived, reminding us of a mantra that has been a product of 17 years of dominance: D…

A tradition of inviting faces and colorful posters paint Bulldog Alley with spirit at the beginning of the academic year. Clubs of all shapes and sizes hug the edges of the walkway, looking for new members to continue building the ever-rising reputation of the Gonzaga student body.

Spring has sprung, grass is a little greener and trails of sunflower seeds litter ballparks across the country.

Talk about a spectacle.

Last week, I had the opportunity to cover the Zags as they ran the WCC Tournament gantlet in Las Vegas.

A North Dakota State team that pulled off one of the NCAA Tournament’s biggest upsets last year — in Spokane, no less — doesn’t appear to be a cupcake first opponent for GU this season.

Sometimes hard work, dedication and talent are not enough. Without a little luck, it can be tough to thrive or advance in any facet of life, especially in the world of sports. Even some of the world’s best basketball players were never able to reach their full potential because they weren’t …

The inevitable happened. Frequent stretches of subpar play in February finally caught up to the Zags, but it’s a damn shame that lesson was learned on Senior Night for two of the most decorated guards in program history.

Gonzaga withstood a 3-point barrage in Southern California en route to another WCC regular season crown, establishing the longest winning streak in program history.

The Zags remain undefeated in West Coast Conference play, moving to 24-1 despite a rocky road trip to California. GU struggled in both contests, and was down during the second half against both Santa Clara and San Francisco.

Russell Wilson lined up in the shotgun formation. Ricardo Lockette flanked right, two yards deep of the line of scrimmage. Mere inches to his left stood Jermaine Kearse, going face-to-face with ex-Legion of Boom member Brandon Browner.

The biggest game in the McCarthey Athletic Center over the last year and a half turned into a blowout. A pair of airtight defensive stretches in the second half, culminating in a 22-2 run over a seven-minute span, guided the Zags to a 68-47 win last Thursday night in front of a raucous Kennel.

Although my daily diet of sports-watching was much too low for my liking while I studied abroad in Florence last fall, I did make it to a few notable sports-related sites around Europe.

The habitually stoic quarterback remained calm and collected while delivering blow after blow in the waning minutes of a historic comeback. Mere seconds following the Seattle Seahawks NFC Championship victory, Russell Wilson faced one battle he could not overcome: controlling his emotions. W…