College football coaches are moving forward in favor of maximum playoff expansion -- potentially to 24 teams -- along with several other sweeping changes across the sport, Yahoo Sports reported ...

Democrat state Senate candidate Chedrick Greene outraised his Republican counterpart Jason Tunney in the lead-up to the May 5 general election, with records showing that the difference in in-kind ...

Seven years after its third self-titled album, “American Football (LP3),” American Football returned to the scene with “American Football (LP4),” illustrating the transformation the band has gone ...

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Decades into their career, American Football still manage to find new tricks up their sleeves. The veteran Midwest emo group’s fourth record traipses into somewhat novel post-rock, shoegaze, and ...

If you've paid attention to Democratic presidential politics in recent decades, you know South Carolina matters – an early test in the primary race, and a true center of power in the Democratic Party.

When Jim Whittaker was a rambunctious young boy in Seattle, his mother often ordered him and his twin brother to go outside and play, allowing her some peace. That proved to be excellent career advice ...

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash — Jim Whittaker, the Seattle-born mountaineer who became the first American to stand atop Mount Everest and later helped transform a small outdoor cooperative into one of the ...

After Jeff Brohm left following the 2022 season, Purdue hired Ryan Walters to be its head football coach. But Jim Everett actually pitched another candidate. Before Purdue hired Ryan Walters as its ...

The Pacific Northwest’s own Jim Whittaker passed away peacefully at his home in Port Townsend on Tuesday. Elliott Almond from Cascadia Daily News reported the news in an obituary published Wednesday ...

Jim Whittaker stands atop Mount Everest on May 1, 1963, holding an American flag and ice axe after becoming the first American to reach the 29,032-foot summit. He and Sherpa Nawang Gombu spent roughly ...

Mountaineer Jim Whittaker, the first American to summit Mount Everest, died on April 7, 2026, at the age of 97. Whittaker reached the top of the world alongside Sherpa Nawang Gombu in 1963 and was one ...