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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2009


Shock notes

I attended part of Shock practice today and put together a notebook that will run in Thursday's S-R. The unedited version, which discusses the Shock's pass protection, the organization's decision to ban artificial noisemakers and the team's new five-year lease to use the Arena, is…

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Ken Bone, the new head basketball coach at Washington State smiles with WSU athletic director Jim Sterk after making a joke about being friends with Washington Coach Lorenzo Romar during an introductory press conference on April 7, 2009 in a Bohler Gym conference room in Pullman, WASH. Bone, who has strong ties to the Pacific Northwest will worked with Sterk and Romar during separate coaching jobs earlier in their careers.  TYLER TJOMSLAND Special to The Spokesman Review (Tyler Tjomsland / The Spokesman-Review)

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COUGARS • UPDATED: 10:30 A.M. The Ken Bone Era is underway at Washington State University. Let the sophomoric jokes begin. Wait, they already have. Want proof? Just tool around the WSU blogosphere. Couldn't see that coming, could you? Oh well. Maybe it will die down…

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