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Stories related to HoopfestShowing up to 25 most recent stories (6/29/2009) It may have been the 20th Hoopfest, but two of the three elite division finals were full of new flavor Sunday. (6/29/2009) Participating in Spokane's cultural recreational sporting phenomena such as Hoopfest becomes a difficult habit to break, as the 70-plus who have perfect attendance in all 20 can attest. (6/28/2009) Family ties brought one group of Hoopfest court monitors together they include a father and daughter and two sets of sisters but it's the de facto family they've formed on downtown Spokane basketball courts that has kept them coming back year after year. (6/28/2009) If it wasn't for the fourth player they picked up, they could be called Team Redden.After the first day of the 20th Hoopfest, the Redden triplets are thankful that Hayden Burris at 6-foot-4 and 260 pounds is on their team. (6/25/2009) The most impactful history is always personal.It is this truth that informs the second act of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's life, although it's misleading to suggest he took on a new identity simply because he stopped playing basketball 20 years ago. Almost since childhood he resisted being pigeon-holed solely by his ability as a player, as only a driven and intensely self-aware man who grew to stand 7-foot-2 can. (6/25/2009) There is just too much dead time in a softball game. And no good can come from it.Sitting on a bench in a Franklin Park dugout some 20 years ago, a decision was made that led to more than a decade of pain one weekend at a time. (6/25/2009) There is almost an innumerable group of numbers associated with the previous 19 Hoopfests. (6/25/2009) See what people are saying about Hoopfest on Twitter, a social networking site that users post messages of up to 140 characters. (6/24/2009) As 200,000 players and spectators descend on downtown Spokane for Hoopfest this weekend, here are some fun facts about the worlds largest 3-on-3 basketball tournament.
(6/18/2009) In West Central's Cannon Park, the passing of the city's pool bond meant the replacement of a worn-down, leaking pool with a new pool, complete with slides and other water toys. But to make room for the new pool, it also meant the small yet heavily used basketball courts had to be torn down. (5/9/2009) Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will be coming to Hoopfest June 26-27. (7/6/2008) Technically, this doesn't qualify as breaking news, it being a Hoopfest story and Hoopfest 2008 having been put to bed for a week already. (6/30/2008) A sun hot enough to soften blacktop Sunday was no match for thousands of Hoopfest players as relatively few people visited the First Aid tents with heat-related illness and dehydration. (6/30/2008) For Monday, June 30, 2008. (6/30/2008) Word on the street was that Wade Joseph's nickname after this weekend should be "the human Band-Aid." (6/29/2008) As Hoopfest players ground their way through games on the baked streets of downtown Spokane on Saturday, thousands of fans hunted for shade and a cool breeze during a scorching first day of Hoopfest 2008. (6/29/2008) Bobby Homminga was tired. He was hot. The only thing that got him through the rest of his Hoopfest game was the memory of his son. (6/28/2008) Hoopfest is developing a reputation for being more than just the largest 3-on-3 basketball tournament in the world at least with area law enforcement. (6/28/2008) The event by the numbers: (6/27/2008) It's kind of a trick question. How many people are on Jordan Howell's Hoopfest team? "Four!" he says. Isn't it three on
? (6/27/2008) Live videocasts will be streamed on the Internet during this weekend's Hoopfest games, along with a highlights program next week. (6/25/2008) It's fitting that Gabe Doran's team will play in Hoopfest this weekend even though it has to play without him. The Wilson Elementary fifth-grader gave his best effort to everything he tried and wouldn't let anything get in his way, his friend and teammate Terry Cox said. Not even epilepsy. (7/1/2007) Spokane Valley residents Dave and Eileen Green spent their first 12 years at Hoopfest mostly as spectators. (7/1/2007) Phil Von Buchwaldt's first impression of Spokane was that the second impression should come via rearview mirror. (7/1/2007) Longtime friends and educators Clay Henry and Jeff Miller took to the streets Saturday morning for the 18th time at Hoopfest.
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