This just in from Steve Bergum/SR: The regular-season champion Gonzaga Bulldogs, for the second time in five years, swept all of the major West Coast Conference men’s basketball awards that were handed out this morning. The Zags’ Ronny Turiaf (pictured above dunking against Portland Thursday), a 6-foot-10 senior forward, was named the WCC’s Player of the Year; J.P. Batista, a 6-9 first-year junior transfer, was honored as Newcomer of the Year; Erroll Knight, a 6-7 junior, was selected as the Defender of the Year, and Mark Few was named Coach of the Year for a league-record fifth consecutive time.

1. Eric Devericks/Seattle Times doodles about all those who voted illegally in the Washington gubernatorial race here.

2. In Seattle, a coupla cops are assigned to ticket those motorists who cut in line at construction zones -- you know, the creeps who wait until the last minute to jump the line just as two lanes diverge into one causing a delay for everyone else. They should do that in Spokane, too. Click here.

3. Don't look now, but the Albertson College Board of Trustees is considering adding football again to the Caldwell school's fall sports to generate interest and keep some Idaho prep football stars in the state here.

4. NASCAR hasn't given up its dream for a track in the Pacific Northwest yet here.

5. The Easterner provides a sample of the scores of e-mail received by EWU after porn star Ron Jeremy was allowed to speak on campus and Colorado prof Ward Churchill wasn't here.

6. IMHO-NW: Joel Connelly/PI (Ungrateful Eastern Washington), Estar Holmes/St. Maries Gazette-Record (Talk of racism stirs pot), M.B. Owens/PI (Fear of public speaking), Art Thiel/PI (Rick Neuheisel trial), and U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo (Idaho's amazing pioneer women).

*Actor/director Mel Gibson seals Montana ranch sale with a hand shake here.

*Idaho elk slaughter gives hunting a bad name here.

*Washington's Ecology Dept. will delay a phosphorus cleanup plan for three months to allow further talks here.

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