UTEP Head Coach Mike Price has been under the glare of public scrutiny for the past year as he suffers through the debacle of his job at Alabama and then starting his career over at lowly University of Texas at El Paso. He is shadowed by a TV cameraman the night of the season opening game at Arizona State. Now, he has settled his defamation suit with Sports Illustrated. See Item No. 2.

1. Cartoonist David Horsey/PI provides a steamy view of how Eve may have lost the first Adam in the Garden of Eden here.

2. Time Inc. has settled a $20 million defamation suit filed by former WSU football coach Mike Price over a Sports Illustrated article about a night of drinking at a topless bar in Florida, according to the AP, here.

3. American Indian students at Washington State U are passing out T-shirts that say things like "Killumbus lied! Stop celebrating genocide!" as they dis the observance of Columbus Day today here. Meanwhile, federal workers are celebrating because today is a holiday for them here.

4. Your college student may complain about the dorm food at Gonzaga U, but the poor that get the leftovers under the university's Campus Kitchens projects consider it to be nothing but heaven here.

5. UI prez Tim White is released from the hospital after recovering from a third heart attack here.

6. IMHO-NW: D.F. Oliveria/Spokesman-Review (Monday's Huckleberries print edition), Doug Clark/Spokesman-Review (Spokane's lower set of values), Idaho Statesman (Idaho should change sex offender laws), The Daily Inter Lake (Boosting Cabinet grizzlies), and Rebecca Nappi/Spokesman-Review (What's wrong with freak dancin'?).

*Glacier's Going-to-the-Sun Highway closes for the season here.

*Oregon State is working on its image after two deaths and a serious injury among students here.

*Former Nampa Mayor Winston Goering, known for his down-to-earth, approachable style, died Saturday of congestive heart failure at age 77 here.

Orbusmax provides the rest of the Northwest here.

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