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College football
EWU’s Peach on Walter Camp
Eastern Washington University senior defensive lineman Greg Peach is one of five Big Sky Conference players to be named to the 2008 Walter Camp Football Foundation Football Championship Subdivision All-America team.
Peach, a 6-foot-3, 255-pound senior from Vancouver, Wash., was named the Big Sky defensive MVP after leading FCS with averages of 1.64 sacks and 2.1 tackles for loss per game. Peach set school records at Eastern for season sacks (18), season tackles for loss (28), career sacks (351/2) and career tackles for loss (63).
He is a leading candidate for the Buck Buchanan Award, which will be presented by The Sports Network on Thursday in Chattanooga, Tenn., on the eve of the FCS championship game.
Peach was joined on the All-America defense by Montana safety Colt Anderson and Northern Arizona cornerback KJ Gerard. Lumberjacks punter Robbie Dehaze and Montana guard Colin Dow was tabbed to the offensive team.
NFL
Surgery sidelines Seahawks’ Jones
Seattle Seahawks star offensive tackle Walter Jones will miss the season’s final three games following knee surgery.
A team spokesman Friday morning confirmed the eight-time Pro Bowl blocker had arthroscopic knee surgery Thursday.
Team orthopedists Dr. Ed Khalfayan and Dr. Mike McAdam performed the procedure to find and fix the source of pain that last weekend caused Jones to miss his first game because of injury since his rookie year, 1997.
The Seahawks expect the 34-year-old Jones to recover in time to begin training camp next summer.
He had said this week he feels great other than the knee pain and expected to return for his 13th season in 2009.
Coach Mike Holmgren believes Jones hurt the knee during a game months ago.
The Seahawks play the St. Louis Rams on Sunday at 10 a.m. in St. Louis.
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Former Coug Byrd signs with Shock
A familiar name to Washington State University fans is among the four latest additions to the 2009 Spokane Shock roster.
Offensive lineman Bobby Byrd, who started 42 games for Washington State from 2003 through 2007, has joined the Shock, along with linebacker Misi Tupe and offensive linemen John Booker and Chris McDuffie.
In his senior season of 2007, Boyd won WSU Mike Utley Award as the team’s offensive lineman of the year. He helped anchor an offense that led the Pac-10 in passing yards per game (319.7) and was second in total offense (435.6 ypg).
Booker played at San Jose State, McDuffie at Clemson and Tupe at Texas A&M.