In brief: Conversation with WSU’s Moore

Men’s basketball: When Ken Bone took over the WSU basketball program, he knew he needed a point guard who could run the up-tempo attack Bone loves.

Freshman Reggie Moore was that point guard. Though he had an up-and-down season, Moore was a big part of the Cougars’ season, averaging 12.7 points (second on the team) and a team-high 4.2 assists per game.

The 6-foot-1, 180-pound Rainier Beach High alum sat down recently with staff writer Vince Grippi to talk about the shock of playing in the Pac-10 and the reasons he and his teammates have high expectations heading into this season.

“I just want to be the type of point guard that does what it takes to win,” Moore said.

Read the Q&A online at spokesman.com/blogs/sportslink.

Bouldin to play in Greece

Men’s basketball: Former Gonzaga guard Matt Bouldin has signed with Iraklis Thessaloniki, an A-1 (top pro division) team in Greece.

Bouldin earned three first-team All-WCC honors and was the conference’s player of the year as a senior.

Bouldin, who was not selected in the NBA draft, played for the Chicago Bulls’ summer league team but was slowed by a nagging injury that stretched back into his senior season at GU.

After summer league ended in mid-July, Bouldin had surgery to remove bone spurs.

Jim Meehan

Now that’s what you call fan base

Football: More than 150 million people have watched at least part of an NFL game this season, the highest number for the first four weeks of any season.

According to Nielsen, viewership is up for all four of the networks that televise NFL games. CBS, Fox, NBC and ESPN are each averaging their most viewers to this point for their current packages.

Games are averaging 18.9 million viewers, up 9 percent from this time last year.

That’s more than double the average prime-time viewership of 9.2 million for the big four broadcast networks in the new TV season. The gap has grown from last year, when the NFL averaged 17.4 million to 9.3 million for prime- time programming.

A record nine game telecasts have topped the 20 million viewers.

Associated Press