by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 12, 2023 | plateau tribes, rez ball
Last night I went to two ball games in La Grande. The Eastern Oregon women’s and men’s teams handily beat the teams from Corban University in Salem, Oregon. I went because I love to watch games, not the professional contests of huge and brilliant athletes, but the...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 30, 2022 | Abe Streep, apartheid, Arlee Warriors, Lapwai, Mandela, rez ball, Steve Kerr
“Sports is a refuge but not a hiding place from the world of violence.” Golden State Warriors basketball coach Steve Kerr said that in an impassioned press conference right after the Uvalde shootings. Or someone retrieved an old quote to go along with his new press...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 15, 2022 | Abe Streep, basketball, rez ball
When i wrote about the Arlee Warrior basketball team and Abe Streep’s wonderful book about them, Rez ball in Montana, and the problems successful Native high school athletes have making it to and in the college game, I did not know that one of the key players...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 8, 2022 | Abe Streep, Arlee Warriors, basketball, Lapwai, rez ball
I don’t know when I first heard the term “rez ball,” but I’ve been watching Nixyaawii School on the Umatilla Reservation play basketball for years, and that’s where I got my idea of what it is. It’s more passes than dribbles, move the ball, and offense coming off...
