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March 16, 2025

“Pageant” (2020)

Amid March madness, a reason for hope in the American maelstrom

Spokane is better known, now, for basketball than it is for hosting the 1974 World’s Fair, otherwise known as Expo ’74.

Even my mother, a former Wazzu cheerleader who passed away five years ago, was deeply into Gonzaga University basketball. It’s a great story—the rise of a c…