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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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WSU receiver Vince Mayle All-Pac-12 second team

PULLMAN – Washington State receiver Vince Mayle was named Second Team All-Pac-12, the conference announced Tuesday. Mayle tied for the national lead with 106 receptions and set the WSU single-season record with 1,483 receiving yards. The redshirt senior led the Pac-12 with six 100-yard receiving games and was the only college football player this season with two games of more than 250 receiving yards. He was also a semifinalist for the Biletnikoff Award, which is given to the nation’s top receiver.
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WSU-UI hoops: Cougs’ DaVonte Lacy, Vandals’ Sekou Wiggs familiar foes

PULLMAN – The four-year-old rivalry between DaVonte Lacy and Sekou Wiggs may not be ancient like the annual contest between Washington State and Idaho, but it has its own history. There has always been a competitive spirit between basketball players that hail from Tacoma and Seattle. Lacy and Wiggs prepped for two of the cities’ respective basketball powers – Lacy at Tacoma’s Curtis High and Wiggs at Seattle’s O’Dea – so when they met at a camp for elite college basketball prospects it was only natural that the two would face off.
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WSU football coach Mike Leach working from short list to find defensive coordinator

PULLMAN – Washington State football coach Mike Leach is in the market for a new defensive coordinator and finding one may not require a lengthy search, according to athletic director Bill Moos. The Cougars have two openings on the defensive staff because defensive coordinator Mike Breske and outside linebackers coach Paul Volero were dismissed on Sunday. WSU finished the season with a 3-9 record and ranked No. 115 out of 125 teams nationally in scoring defense, allowing 38.6 points per game.
Sports

Cougars expect to hire soon

Washington State coach Mike Leach is in the market for a new defensive coordinator and finding one may not require a lengthy search, according to athletic director Bill Moos.
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Leach fires defensive coordinator, outside linebackers coach

PULLMAN – The day after Washington State’s season of high-scoring losses ended, head football coach Mike Leach dismissed defensive coordinator Mike Breske and outside linebackers coach Paul Volero. “We decided to make a change and wish them the best,” Leach said Sunday night through a spokesman.
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WSU Coach Mike Leach fires Breske, Volero

The day after Washington State’s season of high-scoring losses ended, head football coach Mike Leach dismissed defensive coordinator Mike Breske and outside linebackers coach Paul Volero.
Sports

One too many Washingtons

PULLMAN – The Saturday morning snow had long been shoveled into Martin Stadium’s east end zone before the start of the 107th Apple Cup but the Cougars just kept digging, burrowing a deeper hole for themselves with an offense whose only success was avoiding a shutout in UW’s 31-13 win in front of a sold-out crowd. Washington was more explosive, prepared and effective than Washington State in the Apple Cup, and that was just the UW running back. Dwayne Washington and the Huskies built a 31-0 lead before the Cougars finally scored in the fourth quarter on a 35-yard touchdown pass from Luke Falk to Dom Williams.