Saturday morning Pac-12 links

From Tucson — For those diehards fans who consider a win for their favored team to just a smidge better than a loss by their rivals this weekend is already a success as the hated Huskies lost both the game and their quarterback … UCLA’s star freshman continued to dominate on both sides of the ball … But the Cougars can complete the double whammy with a win today, and there’s plenty of reasons to think they can … Their opponent will be looking to jump out to an early lead … Four keys to a Cougars victory … The women’s soccer team is hosting an NCAA tournament game today and baseball coach Donnie Marbut implores fans to turn out … The Cougars have received Tramaine Isabell’s letter of intent …WSU will be hosting a coach with a famous last name in its nighttime affair.

DON’T FORGET: We’ll be hosting a live WSU football chat an hour before kickoff on SportsLink.

Links from around the conference after the jump.

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• The Sun Devils are getting unexpected contributions from a little-known defensive end.
• The Golden Bears have enough injury problems without wounding each other .
• The Ducks must face the only team to beat Stanford, which gave Oregon its only loss.
• Oregon State’s game against ASU will be a tale of two defenses .
• It’s good the Trojans’ young running backs are coming around, because USC will be without their old star.
• Beating Oregon without one’s starting quarterback is a challenge indeed.
• Bonus Link: Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? Why, to the Bay .

In basketball news…

• Jahii Carson led the Sun Devils to an easy win over Idaho State.
• There was a Brazilian flavor to Utah’s dominating win over UC Irvine.
• USC pulled out a late win against Northern Arizona.
• Cal pulled it out against winless Oakland.