Jacob Thorpe

Will Royce Freeman play? Marcellus Pippins cares naught.

Oregon has a new defensive coordinator. Luke Falk explains what he's seen from the Ducks.

The WSU head coach addresses the media during his weekly press conference.

Ike Iroegbu and Josh Hawkinson preview the 2016-17 WSU men's basketball season.

The Washington State basketball coach addressed the media for the first time on Monday.

Hunting in Belle Glade, Florida, is an act of survival, not sport – though killing a rabbit in this Everglade town on the shores of Lake Okeechobee is a feat of unparalleled athleticism.

WSU will resume its normal game week schedule on Sunday.

There is no Washington State game on Saturday, and the open date nestled between the end of nonconference play and the start of Pac-12 games gives us a nice opportunity to reflect on the first quarter of the season.

Taking a week off can be surprisingly challenging.

To work hard or rest up? That is the question for the Cougars.

With a quarter of the regular season in the books, the Washington Huskies have aced every test. Or, they’ve at least proved prepared for the pop quizzes.

Those offseason prognosticators did not get everything right – what else is new? – but they sure were right about the Pac-12 South.

Well, the Cougars may have found out how to best prepare themselves for the upcoming Pac-12 season, in which they will need a winning record to become bowl eligible.

At the end of a hellish week that saw him arrested and possibly kicked out of school, Robert Barber made a play that injected life into his lethargic team and sprung the Cougars to a 56-6 victory over the Vandals that the program and fan base sorely needed.

Game Ball James Williams: WSU fans have been expecting big things from the redshirt freshman running back ever since his impressive performance in the Crimson and Gray game last spring. After only a few glimpses of the team’s most athletic running back in the first two games, average fans finally got to see what all the fuss was about. Williams led the running backs with 14 carries and 126 yards on Saturday, also scoring his first ever touchdown. Perhaps most impressively, Williams was never tackled for a loss while gaining an average of nine yards per rush.

WSU was unable to get into Idaho’s side of the field during its first two drives, and seemed tentative early in the game. On first down during the team’s third drive, Luke Falk was chased out of the pocket but managed to fire off a deep pass as he fell toward the sideline. Falk’s pass sailed over the defense and was caught for a 50-yard gain by Kyle Sweet. Two plays later, running back James Williams scored to put the Cougars on the board.