Polls

It was announced yesterday that singer/actor Justin Timberlake, who was infamously involved in the 2004 "wardrobe malfunction" onstage with Janet Jackson, will be this year's halftime entertainment at Super Bowl LII.

What with the recent kerfuffle surrounding the American flag and the 'Star-Spangled Banner' at NFL games, I started to think that maybe we should end the practice of singing/playing the national anthem before sporting events altogether.

Yakima native Dale Scully met his wife Karen while attending school in New Jersey. Their eldest son, Jacob, was born in New York City. That said, the Scullys have planted their children's sports roots deeply in the Pacific Northwest, despite having lived and raised their family (daughter Ellie and other son Andrew) in Ellensburg, Paterson, N.J., Fort Pierce, Fla., Toccoa Falls, Ga., -- even UGANDA

With a vicious Yakima heat wave expected to send temperatures past 100 degrees for the next week or so, anyone lucky enough to have air conditioning is probably checking their settings pretty closely. You want to be comfortable, but you don't want to get another heart-stopping bill from the power company. So what's the best setting?

From Alice to Zeus -- and all the Bellas, Roxys and Tanks in between -- the 300-plus nominees are in for Townsquare Media's annual Bark Week cute-dog contest. And while Yarger Law's Sonny Boy isn't one of the contestants, you can bet he'll be among the folks panting to see who wins the $500 gift card from Cabela's in Union Gap's Valley Mall...

Recently, the Seattle Mariners announced that, following the 2018 season, their partnership with Safeco Insurance for the naming rights of the stadium will not be renewed. We asked you, and listeners of 1460 ESPN Yakima and readers of ESPNYakima.com, what it should be named, if money were no object. We ran an online-only poll and offered up three of our own fairly logical and obvious choices but a

For the next few days, I am checking out. I'm thinking a road trip might be in order. I might even drive the length of the West Coast -- from California, up Oregon and back into Washington! I love the coastlines of all three states, but each one is amazing in its own way. I don't think I could choose which one is best.

The Seattle Mariners announced today that their partnership with Safeco Insurance for the naming rights of the stadium, Safeco Field, will expire and not be renewed following the 2018 season.

I was raised in a very religious home. I went to church six days a week. I was raised, though, with the value that no one is different from anyone else. Whether you have light skin or dark skin, whether you believe in God or not or even if you have tattoos, you are no better than the next person.

Mother's Day isn't the only thing that's just around the corner -- we're hitting some of the best times of the year for sportsmen and sportswomen. Which means you'll be seeing lots of camo around town. And all THAT is a good indicator that it's officially open season in our "Camo Queen" Mother's Day photo contest -- it's time to vote on a winner!

Yakima, you need to sit down. It's time for a family meeting. Things are not going very well in our city. Say what you want about elections, but no one has been getting this problem right in Yakima for awhile. A lot of what ails our community can be summed up by this one map made with Google Maps: This map reminded me of a sex offender map many cities provide parents...

The chore our mothers pestered us to do as kids haunts us well into adulthood.