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May21
PULLMAN – Any remaining doubt was erased once the final out of Sunday’s game was recorded: The Washington State baseball team isn’t going to make the postseason. That disappointing truth became a distinct possibility when WSU lost two of three games to California at home two weeks ago. And it became highly likely when Stanford swept the Cougars last weekend.
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May20
Uncertainty surrounded Paul Wulff in the days following his firing as Washington State’s head football coach in late November. He was shocked, not only unsure of where he was headed next but not really thinking about it, either.
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May19
The Big 12 and the Southeastern conferences have announced a deal that will pit their football regular-season champions against each other in a New Year’s Day bowl game for five years beginning in 2014, positioning themselves for the expected switch to a four-team playoff. SEC commissioner Mike Slive all but said it’s coming in Friday’s announcement of the agreement between two of the most successful BCS conferences.
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May17
PULLMAN – The hiring of coach Mike Leach continues to pay dividends for the Washington State football program. The Cougars’ season-opening game at Brigham Young was already teeming with storylines. Now, the entire country will be able to tune in, as WSU announced Wednesday that the game has been moved to a 7:15 p.m. Pacific start on Thursday, Aug. 30, and will be broadcast nationally by ESPN.
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May16
NBA: The doctor who operated on Derrick Rose’s knee insists the Bulls star can dominate again. It will take time, though. Rose faces a recovery of eight months to a year.
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May14
MOSCOW, Idaho – The last time he spoke to Robb Akey, Idaho wide receiver Ken McRoyal shared his excitement about landing a scholarship for the fall. He had earned it with a stellar spring camp, and now he was leaving for Los Angeles to see his young daughter and family. “I can still see the smile on his face,” Akey said Sunday evening with a broken voice, recalling the conversation from last week.
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May10
It has taken college football’s elite more than 100 years to be dragged toward a playoff system that will likely still have only a handful of teams.
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There is something about the University of Idaho mulling its athletic future that suggests a chess novice playing against Deep Blue. No move seems to hold promise.
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May08
Bob Robertson will remain Washington State’s radio play-by-play man for football games, but several other changes to WSU’s broadcasts were announced Monday by athletic director Bill Moos. Bud Nameck will move from the sidelines to the booth, and former WSU receiver Shawn McWashington will replace Jim Walden as the color analyst. In addition, Jessamyn McIntyre, a producer at 710 ESPN in Seattle, will take over as the crew’s sideline reporter.
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May07
Bob Robertson will remain Washington State’s radio play-by-play man for football games, but several other changes to WSU’s broadcasts were announced Monday by athletic director Bill Moos.
Bud Nameck will move from the sidelines to the booth, and former WSU receiver Shawn McWashington will replace Jim Walden as the color analyst.
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May06
If the Eastern Washington football coaches had one goal going into spring drills, it was to get more physical. Which sounds a bit trite – this is football, after all. But in trying to achieve a better balance between the run and pass, the Eagles did their best to emphasize the game in the box with more live-tackling drills, including the inside running game, head coach Beau Baldwin said.
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May05
PULLMAN – Jim Walden, whose opinionated style defined his 11-year tenure as Washington State’s color commentator for football broadcasts, will not return to the booth in 2012. Walden, 74, was notified of the change via letter by WSU athletic director Bill Moos, who said an announcement from the school about a new format for football broadcasts is expected early next week.
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May04
Jim Walden, whose opinionated style defined his 11-year tenure as Washington State’s color commentator for football broadcasts, will not return to the booth in 2012.
Walden, 74, was notified of the change via letter by WSU athletic director Bill Moos, who said an announcement from the school about a new format for football broadcasts is expected early next week.
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College football: Washington State’s 2012 football schedule will include a prime-time national television broadcast from Las Vegas. According to a release from the Mountain West on Thursday, WSU’s game at UNLV will be played at 6 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 14, and broadcast nationally by ESPN.
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May02
It is sad comedy, this dry rot eating at the Western Athletic Conference, the University of Idaho’s happy athletic home. Here’s one of the amusing parts: So many change orders of addition, subtraction and dissection have attended the perpetual remodeling of the WAC that Idaho athletic director Rob Spear some time ago began deflecting requests for his thoughts, at least until the crew takes a smoke break. Then he unfolds an old script about “moving forward,” and awaits the next round of defections. And so it was this week, when more hell broke loose.
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May01
It is sad comedy, this dry rot eating at the Western Athletic Conference, the University of Idaho’s happy athletic home. Here’s one of the amusing parts:
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April29
All things considered, it’s been a pretty good month for Ronnie Hamlin. The Eastern Washington linebacker is three weeks removed from a broken hand, which healed just in time for Hamlin and the rest of his defensive cast to put a hurt on the offense at the Red-White Game on Saturday.
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As a child, Matt Johnson’s Thanksgivings were all about family – and the Dallas Cowboys. Johnson’s football dreams came full circle Saturday morning when the Cowboys chose the strong safety out of Eastern Washington in the fourth round of the National Football League draft.
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April28
Playing on links courses throughout Europe, Giulia Molinari got used to posting low scores despite adverse weather conditions. So when the Arizona State senior fired a 1-under-par 71 to lead the field in the first round of the Pac-12 women’s golf championships at Palouse Ridge Golf Club on Friday, it wasn’t of much surprise.
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April26
Quarterback Kyle Padron confirmed Wednesday night that he has been approved for a medical hardship that paves the way for him to play two years for Eastern Washington University. “It’s a big relief and a huge weight off my shoulder,” the former Southern Methodist quarterback said by telephone from Dallas. “Now I can’t wait to get ready for the season.”
