Live chat, Sankey and links

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FROM KANSAS CITY — Actually, by the time this posts, I should be landing in Denver en route to Spokane. We’ll still hold our live chat at 1 p.m., though, and will be at practice later this afternoon. First, we have a bunch of links to get to, so read on.

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A reminder that we’ll still have our weekly live chat today at 1 p.m. … In today’s newspaper, you can read about WSU’s loss to Texas A&M last night in basketball. You can also read about Bishop Sankey , UW’s running back who was once committed to WSU. On the blog, we have our tale of the tape from last night’s basketball game. … The Seattle Times also wrote about Bishop Sankey. So did the News Tribune. … Bud Withers writes that a knee injury to Travis Long would be a sad ending to a great career. … The AP has a story from WSU’s basketball game. … Howie Stalwick has this feature on Jeff Tuel, as well as an item about Drew Bledsoe. … More tough talk from Mike Leach. … CougCenter looks at UW’s running game. … And lots of other Apple Cup links from Bob Condotta. … Nine WSU players were named to the Pac-12 All Academic team.

Around the Pac-12 … The big news yesterday was California officially firing Jeff Tedford, who had been the Pac-12’s longest-tenured coach. Now begins the search for his replacement . … Stanford’s top linebacker says he still isn’t 100 percent. … Guarantee or not, USC’s backup quarterback is confident heading into his team’s game against Notre Dame. … Nobody’s laughing at UCLA’s Eric Kendricks anymore. … Arizona State’s quarterback finally gets his chance to beat Arizona. … Rich Rodriguez’s first year at Arizona has been a big-time success. … Oregon State knows there’s no magic formula for beating Oregon. … Oregon’s center is made more important by its offensive style. … OSU is still hoping for the return of an offensive lineman. … Colorado knows it’s not easy to buy out a fired coach. … Utah is still smarting over its “debacle” of a defensive performance against Arizona.

In basketball action … USC beat Texas , 59-53. … UCLA beat Georgia , 60-56. … Arizona State beat Cornell , 64-53.

Check back at 1 p.m. for our chat.

Christian Caple can be reached at christianc@spokesman.com . Twitter: @ChristianCaple