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John Blanchette

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Blanchette: Perrault did Eagles (and Cougs) proud

Eastern Washington’s athletic hall of fame welcomes another class Saturday, and it includes a man whose last collegiate feat was to quarterback Washington State to victory in the Apple Cup. Possibly about now you’re thinking the Eagles need to revisit the idea of, you know, enrollment as part of the enshrinement criteria.
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Idaho falls 34-10 to South Alabama

MOSCOW, Idaho – Here’s what kind of Saturday it was for the Idaho Vandals: When the request-a-song promotion went up on the Kibbie Dome big screen and the winning title was announced, the band struck up another tune altogether. But at least it still sounded good.
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Ex-QB McCain now star for Idaho at receiver

Josh McCain didn’t spend a Saturday afternoon curled up with a book of self-help slogans to decide that life wasn’t going to get better by chance, but by change. He spent a whole fall of Saturdays.
Sports >  Seattle Seahawks

Overtime drive Wilson’s latest signature moment

SEATTLE – The Legacy Quarterback had just piloted his team on a drive for the ages – overtime, 80 yards, 13 textbook plays, using his feet when necessary, his arm when possible, his head every second. It was brilliant, and afterward in the visiting locker room, the victims took pause to acknowledge it. “Keep talking up Andrew Luck,” spat Denver Broncos cornerback Chris Harris Jr. “Russell Wilson is better.”
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Blanchette: Cougars show improvement, still not there yet

PULLMAN – No more need to worry about Washington State football – the squishy defense, the one-dimensional offense, the potshots at the coach. But how is WSU athletic director Bill Moos ever going to raise enough money to cover the flag budget?
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John Blanchette: Labor issue spills over into WHL

The 2015 hockey season opens Saturday for the Spokane Chiefs, and they may be skating on uphill ice during the franchise’s 30th year. Long gone are the league scoring champion, their goaltender, and two veteran defensemen who lost their taste for junior hockey. On paper, their potential for both scoring goals and stopping them appear questionable, and the roster will have roughly 200 fewer games in the way of Western Hockey League experience than any other team in the U.S. Division.
Sports

W. Michigan runs over Idaho

MOSCOW, Idaho – That notion about a football team’s greatest improvement coming between its first and second games? It’s true often enough. It’s just not an absolute.
Sports

Linehan & Son a going concern

The coach’s kid is sport’s favorite talisman, often presumed to be a team’s shortcut to success. And if it doesn’t always work out that way, at least things don’t have to be explained to him again and again. And if quarterbacking is in the blood? If the footsteps are traced on the same campus, in the same building?
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John Blanchette: NFL’s problem is much bigger than NFL

There is every chance, once that security video from the Atlantic City elevator crumbles to pixel dust from repeated replay, that Roger Goodell will do more hard time in the prison of public shame than Ray Rice. For those of us whose default setting is ecstasy whenever weaselish oligarchs are exposed and dishonored, this would be a feast.