First, congratuations to Chiefs Tyler Johnson and Jared Cowen for their medals at the World Junior Tournament. Johnson and Team USA ended Canada's five-year gold streak with a wild 6-5 win in the championship game Tuesday night in Saskatoon."It feels pretty good," said Johnson, who…
COUGARS • UPDATED: 4 P.M. Spent the morning watching Washington State get ready for what is quite possibly the toughest road trip in the Pac-10. First the Cougars get an Arizona team at home coming off a split in Los Angeles and a 30-point whupping…
Starting to get overwhelmed by figure skating preparation and with three hockey games this week women's basketball posts and links are a bit thin.Our unedited notebook follows, as well as the Top 25 vote, with quite a bit of shakeup at the bottom. Gonzaga and…
Gonzaga redshirt freshman forward Andy Poling has decided to transfer, Poling's mother, Jenny, confirmed.The 6-foot-11, 230-pound Poling played 23 minutes in six games. He was seeing limited minutes behind Rob Sacre, Elias Harris, Will Foster, Kelly Olynyk and Bol Kong, who has played some at…
Just wanted you to know the Cougars are practicing early this morning - school doesn't start again until next Monday - and then it's right to coach Ken Bone's press conference for us. We'll put together our usual morning post then.
A taut, back-and-forth contest swung in San Jose State's favor late, as the Spartans nipped Idaho 78-75 in WAC men's basketball action. There were 28 lead changes and 12 ties in the game. Mac Hopson and Steffan Johnson again flourished offensively for UI -- combining…
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