Morning links: Getting to know Peyton Bender

Peruse today’s Washington State news before joining our live chat at 11 a.m.

Yesterday was a busy day on the WSU beat, and that’s good for me because I had plenty to write, and good for you if you like reading that sort of thing. In the paper we have a feature story about quarterback Peyton Bender, my Pac-12 Power Rankings and a game story from the men’s basketball team’s win last night . Jim Allen wrote a story about the women’s basketball team’s overseas connections . And we also ran this Christian Caple story about Washington’s impressive defensive backfield . Adam Jude wrote about UW’s secondary as well.

On the blog we have a story about how WSU’s players manage to focus on academics and football and a post about Luke Falk’s nomination for the Burlsworth Trophy . We also have some postgame videos of Ernie Kent , some WSU players and the box score from the basketball game. Stefanie Loh wrote about the Pelluers and their ties to both UW and WSU. Gabe Marks is not a finalist for the Biletnikoff Award, and does not seem particularly pleased about that .