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Jacob Thorpe

Jacob Thorpe

Current Position: Sports columnist

Jacob Thorpe is a freelance sports columnist covering Washington State football.

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Cougars Brett Boese, Junior Longrus get down to business

Brett Boese had all the information he needed to make his college choice. His uncles, Jim and Dave Meredith, played basketball at Washington State in the 1970s. He grew up in WSU’s athletic shadow and played at Spokane’s Shadle Park High School.
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Cougars humbled at Utah, 88-47

As a little more of Brett Boese’s senior season swirled down the drain during Washington State’s most brutal loss since his elementary school days, the Shadle Park graduate provided an example to younger teammates of how to manufacture meaning when the possessions, and games, are largely inconsequential.
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Scouting the WSU opponent: Utah

Tomorrow WSU will play at Utah. Tomorrow is also Valentine's Day. The Cougars have a player named Valentine. That's all that needs to be said about that.
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The day after Colorado

When a game goes to double-overtime, there are more storylines than can fit in one gamer. Let's take a look.
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Cougars’ upset bid foiled by ‘heck of a shot’ in 2OT loss at Colorado

BOULDER, Colo. – The projectile that glanced off Ernie Kent’s noggin (he believes it was a golf ball, others saw a small bottle of liquor), and landed a fan with more zealotry than brains in hot water seemed to upset the coach less because of the superficial pain it caused, and more because it marred what had been perhaps his team’s most spirited performance of the season.
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WSU in rare situation regarding quarterbacks

Barring unforeseen attrition, Washington State will begin next football season with a junior quarterback, a sophomore quarterback, a redshirt freshman and, if Justus Rogers develops as the coaches hope he will, a true freshman who can redshirt.