Pros and Preps

The last 48 hours have given baseball fans in Missoula their first view of what the roster for the Missoula Osprey will look like when the team opens the Pioneer League season Monday evening in Helena against the Senators.
After Missoula’s parent club, the Arizona Diamondbacks, assigned four more players to the Osprey on Thursday, the [...]

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The Arizona Diamondbacks announced Wednesday the signing of 15 selections from this year’s Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft and six have been assigned to the Missoula Osprey, the team’s Pioneer League affiliate.
Two of the six were chosen in the top-20 rounds of last week’s MLB draft – 17th-round selection Derek Eitel, a 6-foot-4 200-pound [...]

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hese are anxious times for Missoula Osprey baseball fans as the countdown to opening day stands at five.
Just a week after the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, the O’s parent club, the Arizona Diamondbacks, is slowly beginning to reveal who will make up Missoula’s opening day roster when the team begins the 2010 Pioneer [...]

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There are few things in this world I enjoy more than feeling like a member of the Missoulian coverage area’s sporting community.
As a 16-year transplant to Missoula with no immediate family currently living west of Cleveland, I consider it an honor and a privilege to have forged myself a space among the area’s athletic family [...]

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elieve me, in the grand scheme of things I know I have very little pull when it comes to the fate of the universe. In short, I’m well aware it’s not all about me.
But sometimes I can’t help but think I have a bit of a curse on teams I cover for the Missoulian. [...]

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ith all the buzz surrounding the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft and the impending arrival of the 2010 Missoula Osprey to the Garden City in a week, many have overlooked some special baseball already being played here in town.
Tonight (Thursday) at 7 p.m., the Class AA Missoula Mavericks begin their Western Conference campaign with [...]

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By selecting Texas A&M right-hander Barret Loux on Monday with their first pick and sixth overall in the 2010 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, the Arizona Diamondbacks began a trend they followed up on during Tuesday’s second day of the draft.
Between the first and 30th rounds, the Diamondbacks, the parent club of the Missoula [...]

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While I was in Billings for the All-Class state wrestling meet I got a phone message from Mike Norman of Cleveland, Ohio, who was going to be in Missoula the following week for the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.
Well, I forgot to get back to Mike, but here’s a clip from his film, “Pinned,” [...]

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Missoula’s KGRZ radio (1450 AM) will carry the Loyola Sacred Heart boys’ and girls’ championship basketball games from the District 6-B tournament in Hamilton on Saturday.
LSH faces Florence in both games for the district title. The boys’ game tips off at 6:30 p.m. and the girls’ game starts at 8 p.m.
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The four seniors that comprise the Missoula Sentinel wrestling team’s “Death Row” – Josh Hamilton, Tanen Doty, Jace Prideaux and Bentley Alsup – were selected to compete in this Saturday’s Tournament of Champions in Great Falls, meet sponsors announced.
In case you missed it, Doty explains how the group earned their nickname “Death Row” immediately after [...]

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