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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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UW’s Deontae Cooper ready to move on from injuries and into the endzone

LOS ANGELES – Deontae Cooper appreciated the well wishes, until he resented them. He was thankful for the sympathy, and then he was sick of it. Washington’s sixth-year senior running back is tired of everyone’s compassion about how unfair his college football career has been, and the implication that his legacy is already written.
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Notebook: Pac-12 sets out to lead by example

Larry Scott, the man tasked with turning the Pac-12 into an international enterprise, ticked off the reforms the conference will undergo this season to make it a safer, fairer and more profitable place for its member schools to play football games.
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Notes from Pac-12 media day

Coaches and athletes are still speaking at Pac-12 media days. I'll update this post with the most interesting tidbits as I hear them.
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Two more Cougars named to watch lists

Last year WSU receiver Vince Mayle came within a couple catches of the Biletnikoff Award and the Tallahassee Quarterback Club Foundation continue to pay attention to Pullman in 2015.
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WSU adds a recruit, then adds two more

Washington State received commitments from three football players, two of them in the class of 2016. But the first to announce his decision will take the longest to get to Pullman.
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WSU adds a cornerback to 2016 class

Jalen Thompson, a cornerback from Downey High in Los Angeles, became the fourth member of Washington State's 2016 recruiting class on Friday.