The Gonzaga vs. Baylor showdown – one of, if not the biggest non-conference matchup in the upcoming college basketball season – has will tangle at 10 a.m. PT Saturday, Dec. 5, at Bankers Life Fieldhouse – home floor for former Zag and current Indian Pacers All-Star forward Domantas Sabonis – in Indianapolis.

The conference commissioners who manage the College Football Playoff have decided to stick with a four-team format during the pandemic-altered season after the Pac-12 made a request to consider expansion.

Reynolds, an ex-Cheney High standout and father of two, was 40.

Olynyk joined select company when the Miami Heat defeated Boston to advance to the NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers. He’s one of five Zags to reach the Finals, joining John Stockton, Ronny Turiaf, Adam Morrison and Austin Daye.

In a previous story, not long after the NCAA announced athletes wouldn't have to forfeit a year of eligibility even if they compete this fall, I (jokingly) floated the concept of Max Borghi returning to Pullman as a fifth-year senior in 2022 to shattering every rushing, receiving and scoring record at Washington State.

The 6-foot-9, 225-pound Perry has spent the last 15 months adding 10-15 pounds of muscle, playing with and against many of the nation’s top prospects and making big strides with his game.

The Los Angeles Rams came up short, despite Cooper Kupp's best efforts.

Weber State, one of the subdivision's best 6-5 teams that season, was a worthy adversary in 2010. For about three quarters, anyway.

Eastern Washington athletic director Lynn Hickey was supposed to be in the muggy Gainesville, Florida, heat as the Eagles opened their 2020 campaign at the University of Florida, a guarantee game that would have been a much-needed $750,000 boost for a school with its share of financial maladies.

Call it a return to normalcy.

Less than two hours after presidents and chancellors in the Pac-12 Conference voted to resume a seven-game football season, starting the weekend of Nov. 6-7, first-year Washington State football coach Nick Rolovich took a seat with radio broadcaster Matt Chazanow at Zeppoz Casino in Pullman on the coaches talk show to discus the day’s news and answer other questions about the Cougars program.

Jaylen Watson’s tweet mirrored what every one of his Washington State teammates must have felt before they hit the sheets Wednesday night.

Almost every sign points to some type of Pac-12 football taking place in 2020, but the conference’s CEO group, consisting of university presidents and chancellors, is expected to discuss the finer points of what a shortened fall season would look during a meeting on Thursday.

When the opportunity to take home a piece of Eastern Washington's famed red turf began to take shape, hundreds reached for their wallets as quickly as Taiwan Jones streaked up the Roos Field sidelines in the weeks following its 2010 installation.

Elias Harris is on the move in his native Germany, but not too far. The former Gonzaga standout signed with MHP Reisen in Ludwigsburg, located about 40 miles north of Brose. Harris played the previous seven seasons professionally with Brose Bamberg.

The Houston Cougars are still waiting to play their season opener as more major college football games were wiped out by COVID-19 issues.

Members of the offensive line trotted out to the practice field behind the Whitworth Fieldhouse, their masks on as they began their first practice in a fall. They did so with no certain plans to play a football game anytime soon.

Three months after former Washington State guard Jaylen Shead accused Danny Kaspar of making racially insensitive comments to Shead and other members of Texas State’s basketball team, the Bobcats coach resigned from his post, the school announced Tuesday.