COUGARS, 73-56Well, the ranking didn't jinx them. Neither did playing on the road. Nor the Cal Bears.The Cougars took control of Thursday's Pac-10 game early and never gave any indication they would ever lose it, methodically building an insurmountable lead and breezing to their fourth…
COUGARS, 40-28The first half couldn't have gone too much better for WSU, other than a couple of fouls apiece on Robbie Cowgill and Ivory Clark.Looking at the statistics, the Cougs dominate in almost every category. WSU is shooting 55 percent from the floor, Cal 40…
COUGARS PREGAMEAs the Cougars prepare to take the floor as a ranked team – something that hasn't happened in any of their player's lifetimes – we'll see if there is any extra pressure.I don't see why. Do the players really think about their team's ranking…
MORRISON WATCHAdam Morrison was on the Dan Patrick show today, with very little of the conversation expressly about basketball.There was the usual hair and moustache questions (which come up again in this Jack McCallum piece on SI.com), the typical diabetes questions, you know, all the…
COUGARSWe've heard a lot about the 1982-83 Cougars recently, owing to the fact they were the last group of basketball-playing Coug men to be ranked.But how much do these current Cougs know about that 22-6 team? Well, read Glenn Kasses' story and you'll find out.I'll…
EAGLESEastern is averaging 86.4 points a game, its highest total in 35 years. But the Eagles are 8-8 overall, 2-2 in Big Sky play. If you want to know why, it might be because, though EWU has scored 100 points three times, its given up…
PREPSIf you had a chance to see today's S-R, you know wrestling took center stage – and most of the front page – on this, Prep Page day.Mike Vlahovich's column features a look at the end of era at Lakeside High, where Scott Jones (pictured;…
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