Sorting out the confusion of high school sports

MEDICAL LAKE — Meteorological spring arrived March 1. The astrological version graced us March 20.

But Medical Lake High School’s athletics director Justin Blayne is still stuck in fall, and winter, and summer — along with whatever edition of spring with which you might subscribe in this COVID-19 world in which we all live.

That’s at least how he seemed to describe things at the March 23 school board meeting where he gave a report on the, perhaps, bewildering state of sports he oversees. With remote learning taking place for the better part of the last year, many extracurricular activities — s...