Morning links: Air Raid gets a makeover

I’ve covered Washington State for 19 months now, so naturally I thought I’d seen everything. But the Cougars can still surprise this old scribe.

WSU lined up behind center on less than .1 percent of its snaps last season but, lo and behold, the Cougars have been working on traditional handoffs this spring. We touch on that in yesterday’s practice report and explore more in our story for today’s paper . We also have a video of Mike Leach answering some questions yesterday’s practice.

Here are the links…

— You already know this, but WSU’s special teams haven’t been special for the better part of a decade .

— Washington’s quarterbacks are competing fiercely while last year’s starter is absent.

— An article about Arizona’s special teams .

— Could Arizona State’s next basketball coach be on the bench during Monday’s championship game?

— The saga of Cal’s recruitment of an elite basketball recruit continues .

— Byron Marshall has one more spring at Oregon.

— Oregon State’s passing game is a work in progress .

— Once again, Stanford is going to have a pretty good defense .

— There is a competition brewing among the backup quarterbacks at USC.