Morning links: Harrington and Thursday Night Football

In today’s paper we have a profile of Keith Harrington, the freshman running back who is racking up touchdowns for Washington State.

Read that here . Also check out our practice report from yesterday’s Thursday Night Football underclassmen scrimmage . … You will be less informed about Luke Falk than your friends if you don’t read Jeff Nusser and Brian Anderson’s examination of the quarterback’s performance to date. … Stefanie Loh at the Seattle Times wrote a profile of WSU kicker Erik Powell. … Friend of SportsLink Coug-a-Sutra wrote about tomorrow’s game .

Elsewhere in the “Conference of Champions” …

— The Huskies missed 30 tackles last week. They would like to miss fewer .

— Anu Solomon is ” questionable ” for Arizona’s game at Stanford. That’s bad.

— Arizona State won’t have a prayer against UCLA unless it can play mistake-free football .

— Cal running back Daniel Lasco expects to play against the Cougars tomorrow.

— Seems like a lot of people think Colorado has a pretty good shot against Oregon. I remain skeptical.

— Ken Goe’s post starts with Oregon and ends with Mike Leach. How did he get from one to the other? Maybe you can help me figure it out .

— Oregon State’s starting tight end (an Evergreen State native) is out for the season .

— It’s not really all that shocking that Barry Sanders Jr. is good at football .

— What makes UCLA’s freshman quarterback so good ?

— Is USC still the Pac-12 favorite ?

— Utah has a shot to be special , says Gordon Monson.