Author: Tim Martinez

For the second consecutive week, La Center is the lone team from Southwest Washington (Clark, Cowlitz, Skamania counties). We thought perhaps Skyview’s win over Bothell might impress voters, but it […]

We had some significant changes at the top of this week's power rankings, while the lower half didn't really change much. It still may seem odd to have teams that are […]

After going 12-7 in pick in Week 1, we rebounded nicely by going 14-4 in Week. That brings our year-to-date pick percentage to a solid .703. But that 14-4 felt a little […]

Ranking area high school football teams so far this season has been challenging. Normally in rankings, when teams win, you move them up in rankings. And when they lose, teams fall. But […]

The Columbian went 12-7 in Week 1 predictions or .631. Like some of our local teams, that was a bumpy Week 1 of predictions. Hoping to do better in Week 2. Evergreen Public […]

Six of the top seven teams in The Columbian’s preseason power rankings lost in Week 1, and seven of the top-10 teams lost. So that caused a shake up in our […]

Here are Week 1 preview caps for high school football teams in Southwest Washington from Castle Rock to White Salmon. If you do not have a subscription to the NFHS Network, […]

The Columbian is debuting a new feature this high school football -- area power rankings. These are rankings of teams relative to the classification that they play at. Another way of […]

Columbia River's Sam Boyle has been selected as the small-school (2A-1A-2B/1B) state player of the year by the Washington State Baseball Coaches Association. Boyle was one of four River players to […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah high school athletics association secretly investigated a female athlete — without telling her or her parents — after receiving complaints from the parents […]