Fast Break
College basketball
Huskies testing prowess on road
Coach Lorenzo Romar wants his team to play better in road games. The University of Washington men’s team traveled to 6,200 miles to progress toward that goal.
The Huskies scored four points in the final 9 seconds Monday to complete an impressive late rally that resulted in a 103-100 triumph over Peresteri of the Greek Professional League at Papandreou Gym in Athens.
The Huskies improved to 2-2 during their five-game tour of Greece. UW defeated Ment 93-81 on Thursday and lost 87-82 at Iraklis on Friday, both in Thessaloniki. UW was dealt a heart-breaking 84-83 setback at Trikala on Saturday.
“We have been playing on the road here in Greece. We played on the road last year and we didn’t do very well,” Romar said of his Huskies, who had a 1-10 record in away games in 2006-07.
The Huskies remain in Athens to play Daphni tonight, returning to Seattle Thursday.
College football
You can watch Wolverines fall
The biggest game of college football’s first big Saturday – OK, will you buy most shocking? – will be available for your perusal tonight.
Fox Sports has added a two-hour, cutdown version of Appalachian State’s 34-32 upset of then No. 5 Michigan to its lineup at 10:30 PDT.
Michigan coach Lloyd Carr will get the first look to find out if it was an aberration or a pattern Saturday against Oregon, which Carr said runs a spread-option attack strikingly similar to Appalachian State’s.
“Any time you’re coming off a great emotional win, or a big disappointment, you’ve got a challenge as a team,” Carr said. ” … There is no question that our team faces a difficult week, from the standpoint of being able to put a disappointment behind us.”
Tennis
Peer feeling right at home
When Israel’s Shahar Peer plays at the U.S. Open in New York, she almost feels like she never left home.
“There are so many Jewish (people) here, so many Israelis, that I have huge support here,” Peer said Monday after becoming the first woman from her country to reach the quarterfinals at Flushing Meadows. “I go on the court and I feel like I’m playing in Israel or something. It’s so much fun.”