Fast Break
College basketball
Sac State next for 2-0 Cougars
The Washington State Cougars continue a four-game, season-opening home stand with a 6 p.m. contest against Sacramento State today.
The Cougars opened the season by dispatching Mississippi Valley State and Fairleigh Dickinson with ease, and now face a Hornets team that hasn’t won a game since early in February, a streak that has reached 10 games with their 0-2 start this season.
Aron Baynes (shown above) leads the Cougars in scoring and rebounding at 11 points and 6.5 rebounds a game. WSU is holding its opponents to 19 percent shooting and 29 points per game.
Baseball
Weather won’t shorten games
There has never been a rain-shortened game in the postseason, and now there never will be.
Commissioner Bud Selig said the sport will enact a rules change stating that postseason games cannot be shortened because of bad weather.
“All postseason games, All-Star games and that, will be full-length affairs, and the rule will be so written,” Selig said Thursday following an owners’ meeting.
Regular-season games are official as soon as the trailing team has made 15 outs.
During World Series Game 5 between Tampa Bay and Philadelphia last month, Selig decided that it wouldn’t be cut short because of pouring rain. Just after the Rays tied it in the top of the sixth, umpires halted play and the game was suspended for 46 hours.
NFL
NFL has cut Mustard a lot
Chad Mustard really wants to begin his career as a high school math teacher and he’d like to get some substitute jobs under his belt until he lands that full-time job.
But he can’t say no when the NFL keeps calling.
“I’m living the dream. Who would turn that down?” Mustard said.
Mustard canceled three job interviews with school districts in Omaha, Neb., and re-signed with the Denver Broncos after tight end Nate Jackson went on injured reserve with a hamstring injury.
This is Mustard’s 11th pro contract and his sixth stint with the Broncos.
Actually, Mustard and his wife, Kalli, returned to Omaha from Denver two weeks ago, but it’s only a short flight back.
Mustard, a fifth-year tight end from North Dakota, has been waived 10 times in his NFL career, most recently by Denver on Nov. 4.
Instead of $140 a day substitute jobs, he’ll earn a weekly paycheck of about $36,500 with the Broncos.
“Football pays a little better,” Mustard said. “One-forty, that’s not bad for a substitute teacher, either. Don’t get me wrong.”
It’s just that he’d have to sub 43 days to earn what he does in just one day with the Broncos.