COUGARS

It's cold in Pullman. Ice – as in what's all over the cars – cold. Unlike Tucson, where the temperature dipped to what-the-residents-probably-think-is-freezing 41 this morning. That's where Washington State is headed tomorrow. Today, the Cougars are headed back to practice to get ready for the Wildcats. Read on.

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• Washington State: The Cougars loss to Oregon lives on, in the form of more discussion. The Times' Bud Withers had this column today. ... If you want to listen to Ken Bone's press conference, you can here. ... Arizona will have one fewer player on the bench Friday. ... And, as we had here yesterday, the game time Sunday has been changed.

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• Around the Pac-10: The USC news remained the big news, with coach Kevin O'Neill not buying into the sacrifice-basketball, save-football theory. ... With no postseason looming, the Trojans will try to keep it together when they visit the Bay Area starting tonight at Stanford. ... When UCLA heads into Berkeley tonight, it won't be the usual Bruin team. And the Bears will be without their sparkplug. ... Washington heads on the road knowing it probably has to win at least once in the desert if it wants to defend its Pac-10 title. ... Oregon State steps out of conference tonight, hosting Seattle (fixed from earlier).

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• That's it for this morning. We'll be back this afternoon with the early versions of tomorrow's print items. Until then …

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