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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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Pac-12 officiating a work in progress

Having coached in the Pac-12 now for more than three years, Mike Leach has seen plenty of calls go against his team and he’s not shy about mentioning the ones he disagrees with.
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Leach anxious to see improvement from Cougars

PULLMAN—Mike Leach is growing impatient speed of Washington State's improvement and although he sees the Cougars getting better, he wishes they would hurry up about it. "I'd like the progress to be faster," Leach said. "Any way that we see that we can speed it up, we need to do it. I think there's been movement forward and improvement but we've got to do everything we can to speed it up."
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First Look: Washington State at Oregon

WSU hasn’t beaten the Ducks since 2006. Since then, the Cougars’ fowl opponents have beaten them by an average of 29 points per game. But Saturday’s game likely represents WSU’s best chance yet to end the losing streak.
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Cougars working toward a complete game

PULLMAN – As far as small victories go, giving a scare to California ought to rank somewhere between finding a funny phrase in one’s fortune cookie and having classes canceled thanks to heavy snowfall on quiz day. For a Washington State football team that has led at halftime of each of its games yet has won only half of them, the proof that the Cougars are improving relative to their competition is a reason to be confident heading into this week’s road game against an uncharacteristically vulnerable Oregon team.
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Cougars play well but not well enough to win at Cal

BERKELEY, Calif. – The turnovers and stops that have eluded the Washington State defense finally came on Saturday. And a suddenly aggressive offense was able to put some points on the board, for a half. But on a day the Cougars played some of their best football of the season, the squandered opportunities that have plagued WSU arose once more in a deflating 34-28 loss in front of 42,042 fans at No. 24 California.