Morning links: From soccer to safety

Washington State safety Shalom Luani was a soccer star before he was a hard-hitting football player.

You can read about Luani’s American Samoa national soccer team exploits in today’s paper, or online here . We’ve also got practice notes to pass along . Stefanie Loh of the Seattle Times looks at WSU’s rap shee t and CougCenter gives some background on WUS’s kicker.

Mike Leach went on the Jim Rome show yesterday and told a revealing story . … Stefanie Loh analyzed WSU’s arrest record over the last five years.

In other Pac-12 news…

— How will star UCLA freshman respond to Jim Mora’s public tongue lashing ?

— Arizona State’s new uniforms are a bit of a non sequitur .

— The Huskies are still answering questions .

— Bit by bit, Oregon’s secondary is improving .