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Travis J. Brown
Travis J. Brown is the sports editor at The Washington Evening Journal and an award-winning sports columnist. He writes a regular column about local sports.
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Uh, sorry Iowa State
By Travis J. Brown - Mar 25Apologies are supposed to make everything better. In college basketball, they don’t. Minutes after the conclusion of Iowa State’s 78-75 loss to ...
These Golden Hawks learned how to soar
By Travis J. Brown - Feb 27Four years ago, Mid-Prairie put eight freshmen on the floor in a non-conference girls’ basketball game against a powerful Washington squad. The ...
Are the Demons finally finding their groove offensively?
By Travis J. Brown - Dec 14It took the Washington girls’ basketball team seven games, but the 14th-ranked Demons may have finally found their shooting stroke in Tuesday’s ...
The secret of their success
By Travis J. Brown - Oct 19Want to know why the Washington football team is preparing to host its first home playoff game in six years? Look no further than the school’s ...
Washington five plays from being undefeated
By Travis J. Brown - Sep 28Talk to Washington head football coach Randy Schrader, and he’ll tell you that any football game comes down to five plays. Whoever makes those ...
The year that could have been
By Travis J. Brown - Jul 31Eighth-seeded Washington had the top-ranked team in Class 3A, Dallas Center-Grimes, on the ropes in the quarterfinals of the state baseball ...
Tebow gets no respect
By Travis J. Brown - Mar 23Say what you will about Tim Tebow, but the Denver Broncos simply tossed him aside when they recently traded the quarterback to the New York Jets ...
The national title game couldn't hold my attention
By Travis J. Brown - Jan 13A few years ago, one of my co-workers encouraged me to read an article in The Atlantic titled “Is Google Making Us Stoopid?” The author, Nicholas ...
The best 1-3 football team in the state
By Travis J. Brown - Sep 23This is probably of no comfort to Washington’s fans, players or coaches, but the Demons are the best 1-3 football team in the state of Iowa. Acco...
One of the elite teams
By Travis J. Brown - Aug 12Before the high school baseball season began, Washington head coach Nathan Miller described what, in his mind, it took to become an elite baseball ...
No all-state honors? No matter.
By Travis J. Brown - Mar 08There’s just no room on the all-state teams for teamwork, it seems. Mid-Prairie and Washington were two of the area’s best girls’ basketball teams ...
Ryan's ego will cost him his job
By Travis J. Brown - Dec 21Rex Ryan is likely to be fired from his post as the head coach of the New York Jets at the end of this disappointing football season. But it will ...
New gym doesn't yet feel like home
By Travis J. Brown - Nov 09A little over two years ago, I moved into a new apartment. And even though I unpacked all of my belongings long ago, and I’ve lived there for two ...
Demons to get their first taste of the Washington-Mt. Pleasant football rivalry
By Travis J. Brown - Oct 05The preview of tonight’s football game between rivals Washington and Mt. Pleasant ran in yesterday’s Washington Evening Journal, and the headline ...
Innocent until proven guilty
By Travis J. Brown - Aug 24Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Lance Armstrong, a seven-time winner of the Tour de France, dropped his fight against charges ...
Might as well
By Travis J. Brown - Jul 19The Washington softball team has had a bit of an odd motto during its postseason run, which continues at 5:30 today when the Demons take on ...
Memories of the WHS gymnasium
By Travis J. Brown - Feb 22On Monday night I witnessed my 140th — and last — varsity basketball game in the current Washington High School gymnasium. Next season, the Demon ...
Athletic Demons off to 6-3 start
By Travis J. Brown - Jan 06Using sheer athleticism, the Washington boys’ basketball team is off to a 6-3 start. The Demons aren’t tall (their tallest player is 6-foot-3). ...
An ugly win
By Travis J. Brown - Aug 29If one were to rate the beauty of Washington’s 27-8 season-opening win on a scale from Gisele Bündchen to Eleanor Roosevelt, the Demons’ performanc...
'It's just nice to be home'
By Travis J. Brown - Jun 15The Washington softball team was going to play its first game on its new field on Tuesday come you-know-what or high water. And high water is ...
