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Husky fans are getting lesson after lesson in humility these days. After enduring the Tyrone Willingham era that culminated in a 0-12 season, they had to swallow hard when the UW administration hired USC assistants to be the coach and defensive coordinator. Then came that humiliating defensive performance in the Alamo Bowl. And today Husky fans not [...]
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- Tags: chris polk, huskies, justin wilcox
If you didn’t know it was still football season, you would have thought the Huskies had played two basketball games tonight. But one of them was indeed a football game, and it was a horrible one. If you like offense, the Huskies had plenty of it. They combined for 151 points in the basketball Pac-12 [...]
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- Tags: Alamo Bowl, keith price, tony wroten
The Huskies are 9.5-point dogs to Baylor in the Alamo Bowl, but, according to WhatIfSports, they will play a closer game than that. Of course, they’ll still lose in a minor shootout, 35-29, according to WhatIf. Vegas thinks it will be higher scoring than that. The over/under of 78.5 points is the most among the [...]
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- Tags: Alamo Bowl, Baylor, huskies
With Brandon Roy announcing his retirement from the NBA just five years into his pro career, it brings to mind another Husky great whose pro career ended very prematurely. Roy is the Huskies’ basketball equivalent to Steve Emtman – an All-American who took his team to new heights, was drafted high and then had his [...]
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- Tags: brandon roy, steve emtman
Bush’s shocking death completes a tragic trifecta this year for ex-Cougs
In: NCAA football|NFL|wsu
9 Dec 2011It’s a sad time to be a Cougar, and I’m not just talking about the football team’s pathetic performance over the last few years. The stunning news that former star linebacker Lewis Bush died of an apparent heart attack at age 42 is the saddest yet in many tragedies to recently befall former WSU football [...]
This is the matchup Robert Griffin III gets after his Baylor Bears upset Oklahoma and blew out Texas in the final three weeks of the season? A cakewalk against a middling Washington team in the Alamo Bowl? Seems like an ignominious way for Griffin to go out (and we all know the fourth-year junior will [...]
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- Tags: huskies, robert griffin III
It’s hard not to be stoked about the hiring of Mike Leach to replace Paul Wulff at WSU. Who wouldn’t want a coach who had taken a second-tier football program to bowl games in 10 straight years with a very entertaining, high-scoring brand of football? WSU is in many ways just like Texas Tech – [...]
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- Tags: Bill Moos, mike leach, Paul Wulff
Leach the right fit for WSU
In: NCAA football|wsu
30 Nov 2011Let’s all agree that the Paul Wulff experiment was an unmitigated disaster for Washington State. Was it all Wulff’s fault? No, but when you win nine games in four seasons, it’s time to cut the cord. The Washington State job is not exactly a prime gig, given the Cougars’ obscurity in the college football landscape, [...]
Win or lose, it’s time to fire Wulff
In: NCAA football|wsu
26 Nov 2011At one point this season, probably in early October just before the Cougars blew a game at UCLA, it looked like the Apple Cup might carry some added intrigue for once. Heck, it still might have if the Cougars had been able to beat Utah in a Pullman snowstorm last Saturday. That would have made [...]
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- Tags: apple cup, Paul Wulff
Why do people idolize these guys?
17 Nov 2011Well, now that Mike Krzyzewski has set the NCAA record for victories, it’s only a matter of time before some skeleton comes out of the closet and ruins it for the man. If you wanted to watch any of ESPN’s marathon college basketball coverage Monday and Tuesday, you had to suffer through the network’s insufferable [...]
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