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A busy Saturday of WSU football

Posted by Vince

Oct. 31, 2009 6:09 a.m. • 4 comments

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With USC and Oregon facing off, all Pac-10 eyes will probably be on Eugene tonight. And that makes sense. Especially considering there are three teams not playing this week: Washington, Stanford and Arizona. So there is less to link to and to read about. But what’s there, we have. Read on.

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• Washington State: From the moment I got on the plane in Spokane I noticed it. The crimson shirts were in greater number this week than usual for a road game. When I got over to Seattle it became even more obvious. The Alaska flight to Austin was chock full of Cougar boosters. So I asked the attendant, who turned out to be a Couger herself, and she said Thursday’s flight was packed with the WSU faithful. I don’t know if this is a cliché or what, be she said – and this is the god’s honest truth – they ran out of vodka, gin, rum … OK, enough of that. … We had our advance today centered around Jason Stripling, and out game day stuff, which you can find if scroll down this post. … Freelancer Howie Stalwick had this advance in the News Tribune and other papers. … From the Notre Dame side, there is this column in the South Bend Tribune about former coach Bill Doba. It should not be missed. And there is also this advance.

• Around the Pac-10: ESPN.com’s Ted Miller goes all Halloween on us. … Buster Sports’ Nick Daschel points out some of the conference’s better unknown players. And there is a WSU defender listed. … …Washington: Bye week, bye to stories. … Oregon State: The Beavers intend to take it to UCLA. … Oregon: As Pee-Wee used to say: Big game, big stakes. Cal: This is becoming a recurring theme. A team plays WSU, wins handily, but the next week is banged up. Wonder if the at least Cougars hit hard? … Stanford: Maybe the Cardinal should be Oregon’s biggest fans. … USC: The Ducks’ passing game in on the Trojans’ radar. …UCLA: The Bruins could be 0-5 in the month after today’s game. … Arizona State: Dennis Erickson challenges his team. … Arizona: No game, yet a story.

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• That’s all for this morning. Before the game this evening, we’ll have our usual pregame post. Maybe we’ll try to get all out clichéd Halloween references out of our system then. We I was young, an editor I respected told me only hack writers wrote Halloween leads. So to keep my International Brotherhood of Hacks’ card, I’ll have to work something in today. Until then …

Four comments on this post so far. Add yours!

DeerLakeRon on October 31 at 8:09 a.m.
Is that Offensive line what we have to look forward to?
With four out of 5 being Seniors to protect a Junior QB, Junior RB, Senior FB and two Junior recievers. Oh they do have two Sophmores on Offense. Compared to WSU’s three Freshman and three Sopmores, oh WSU has ONE Sr on offense. I would think with that kinda line ND has any average QB should be a Heisman Candidete .
Go Cougs!! So the world what you are building up here in the Northwest. Its a opportunity to show and nothing to loose since they all already think you are (pause) well you know.
PS: I liked Blanchete’s column yesterday, no I didn’t like some of the jabs. But thats his Job and thats what he does is write out of the box. And a lot of time and creativity was put into it. If he wasn’t some level of Cougar fan he wouldn’t care about the Cougs enough to spend the time on them. Good Job John, and sorry for calling you Vince in the Press box at the ASU game. Or Sorry Vince, you guys decide.
DeerLakeRon on October 31 at 8:18 a.m.
ps: the line Averages 6-6 315 pounds, they should be the top Ranked team in the Nation. No wonder the Coach is looking over his shoulder. Not sure the number players are really all that, but how does a team get past the Line. HUGE and Experienced. And How they end up in OT with the Huskies?
kaddy on October 31 at 8:51 a.m.
Loved the article on Doba…he is a great person. Sounds like he is enjoying retirement - good for him.

I’d love to have him back for a game in Pullman, so we could show him the appreciation we have for his 19 years of service.

Go Cougs!
dickkenn on October 31 at 11:41 a.m.
Great article on Doba, happy to hear he is injoying fishing and football as a fan. How about a two for one swap, moore and blanchette for the writer who wrote the doba article. I look for the cougs to jump on ND early and put pressure on ND into some errant throws and our defense picks off a couple passes. The cougs upset ND. GO COUGS