It's rare for me to stray from Northwest sports for this blog, but I thought it was a cool gesture by the controversial/entertaining Jim Rome to bring in Navy football coach Ken Niumatalolo on The Jim Rome Show for Veterans Day.
Rome's support for the military runs deep, and his home page has long featured a link to the Pat Tillman Foundation.
The Facebook page for Navy Athletics shows Niumatalolo's busy schedule on Veterans Day. He's making the circuit in light of another impressive season by the Midshipmen, highlighted by Saturday's upset win at Notre Dame.
Niumatalolo's personal story is rather interesting. He's the first Samoan college football coach. He quarterbacked Hawaii in 1989 after his missionary work as a Mormon to its first bowl game and took over at Navy in 2007 when long-time mentor Paul Johnson left for Georgia Tech.
This is Niumatalolo's second tour with the Naval Academy. He first arrived in since 1995, left for UNLV in 1999, and returned in 2002.
Based on his success, one wonders how long he will stay in Annapolis.
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Businesses urged to consider veterans
Businesses urged to consider veterans
WASHINGTON -- Democrats and Republicans rarely agree on anything in Washington, but there's a growing bipartisan sense on Capitol Hill that the private sector will have to do
much more to help Congress ease chronically high unemployment among veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
In August, President Obama called on the nation's businesses to hire or train 100,000 unemployed veterans by the end of 2013, a challenge that Microsoft answered with a pledge to train 10,000 of them.
Now, as part of his $447 billion jobs package, Obama wants Congress to approve a plan that would provide businesses with a tax credit of $2,400 to $9,600 for each veteran they hire, depending on whether they are disabled and how long they have been unemployed.
2 Tri-Citians were killed at Pearl Harbor
2 Tri-Citians were killed at Pearl Harbor
Two Tri-Citians were killed at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and they are buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl overlooking Honolulu.
Tommy Hembree, a Kennewick native, and Harold Comstock of Pasco died in the surprise Japanese attack that launched the United States into World War II.
Hembree, the youngest of five Kennewick siblings, arrived in Hawaii only days before the attack that claimed the lives of 2,341 servicemen.
WSU's Long not short on talent
WSU's Long not short on talent
PULLMAN -- This is the book on Travis Long: rock-solid student, high-achieving football player, and a superlative waiting to happen as a person. You know, the kind of guy you would want calling your daughter, etc.
What he isn't, is very talkative. He's outspoken, all right, outspoken by just about everybody else.
So this was the scene on Christmas Day 2008, at the home of Chris Ball, Washington State's defensive coordinator: The family is opening presents, and the phone rings.
Triton sails home to Richland park
Triton sails home to Richland park
The smell inside the USS Triton's 24-foot-tall sail took Mike Thornton of Richland back to his days of serving in a submarine.
Thornton and his 11-year-old grandson, Riley Sorn, were among the several hundred people who gathered Thursday to see the USS Triton Sail Park dedicated in north Richland -- exactly 52 years after the Triton officially was commissioned.
Thornton served on the USS Picuda SS-382 from 1967-71 and said that other than being a submarine, the diesel electric Picuda didn't have much in common with the Triton, which was powered by two nuclear reactors.
VETERANS: Mid-Columbia ready to honor its veterans
VETERANS: Mid-Columbia ready to honor its veterans
The Mid-Columbia is proud of its veterans, judging from the long list of activities planned to honor them in the coming week. Here’s what’s going on:
Veterans' parades
The seventh annual Prosser 'Thank You Vets' Parade is at 11 a.m. Nov. 11. All are invited to join the parade. Line up begins at 10:15 a.m. near Keene-Riverview School and follows the traditional States Day route.
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