Today 6:30 p.m. Boys soccer at Newport 4:30 p.m. Softball at Mount Si 4 p.m. Baseball at Sammamish Thursday, April…
Today 8 p.m. Girls lacrosse vs. Seattle Prep 4:30 p.m. Softball vs. Issaquah 4 p.m. Baseball at Newport (Bannerwood) Thursday,…
The Mercer Island boys lacrosse team will play at Issaquah High School at 7 p.m. during the state semifinals, thanks to a win against Curtis, 17-11, on Friday.
The Mercer Island girls golf team struggled at the district meet on May 12 at Riverbend golf course in Kent to finish out of the top 10.
Mercer Island High School graduate Rendy Opdycke swam the Catalina Channel, from Catalina Island to the California mainland, in eight hours and 28 minutes on Aug. 9. It is the third fastest time for a woman and the sixth fastest time overall, out of 145 people who have swam the channel solo since 1927.
The Olympics have a little something for every sports fan — casual or diehard. Watching Michael Phelps has been great theater. Although there is no relation to myself as far as I know, I do get a kick out of seeing “Phelps wins gold” flash on every news and sports Web site on the Internet. But Phelps’ quest for eight gold medals, the most won at one Games by an Olympian in history, brings the best of sports to the forefront of our culture. I haven’t heard much talk of steroids at these games — the only time was when previous world record holders hailed from the former East Germany.
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