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WSU’s conference play inches closer

Posted by Vince

Dec. 30, 2009 7:22 a.m. • 4 comments

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With Pac-10 Conference basketball play set to begin on New Year’s Eve (that’s tomorrow for all of you who don’t have a calendar), today turned out to be the day to preview the upcoming season for many West Coast papers. We have links to all, plus a football result. Read on.

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• We gave you the opportunity yesterday to read our Pac-10 team-by-team preview on the blog (which included a few notes), and we’ll offer you the chance to read it as it appeared in the paper this morning. By the way, if you want to listen to Ken Bone’s press conference, you can here thanks to CougCenter and the WSU SID office. … The Times’ Percy Allen has his predictions on his blog, taking the place of his weekly power rankings. … There are also previews in the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle along with a short one in the Arizona Republic. … With the Oregon Ducks in the Rose Bowl, the basketball news is pretty brief from Eugene – it also didn’t help that the Register Guard’s website is on the blink this morning with a mod_python error, whatever that is – so we don’t have anything to offer on Thursday’s opponent for WSU. But the Oregon State coaching staff is waiting on some news, which shows the Beavers didn’t plan their offseason well. … Even though Arizona has a big football game tonight, there is always basketball news out of Tucson. … Stanford snapped its three-game losing streak last night with a gut-it-out victory over James Madison at home. … Cal won its tournament, riding Patrick Christopher’s hot hand past UC Santa Barbara. … And, in football news, UCLA rallied in the second half to defeat Temple in a frigid Washington, D.C.

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• That’s it for this morning. We’ll be back if news warrants. Until then …

Four comments on this post so far. Add yours!

coug79 on December 30 at 9:07 a.m.
Thanks for the links, Vince. Lots of great b-ball reading from around the conference. How about the SF Chronicle picking UCLA to finish last in the conference?

We really need to to take care of the home court against the Oregon schools. Anything other than 2-0 this weekend will be a disappointment. We need Capers to shut down Porter tomorrow. Can’t let him (sore ankle or not) carry Oregon with 3 pointers.

Go Cougs.

Come on Spokane–drive down and see support the Cougs. We need the help with the students on break.
mb126 on December 30 at 11:13 a.m.
Vince, any news on the rumored change in the football coaching staff?
DeerLakeRon on December 30 at 11:49 a.m.
mb126,
what have you heard?
we can start or own rumor.
mikewsu on December 30 at 12:09 p.m.
DeerLakeRon,

It’s been reported on a few (rumor) websites that Etheridge is out and we are looking for a new OL coach.