Kyle Smith's day began with a negative and ended with a positive. 

Washington State held football practice Wednesday afternoon.

An expected change in COVID-19 recommendations from the CDC will help college sports

Unfortunately, we don't have all the normal Apple Cup content to feed you in 2020, but there's still plenty of Washington State football developments to feast on as the Cougars wait for the next game on the schedule, Dec. 4 at USC.

The 3.5 sacks Carlos Dunlap has in the three games he’s played for Seattle are impressive enough.

Three more Washington State athletes have been placed in COVID-19 protocol since Friday, when athletic director Pat Chun spoke with reporters on a Zoom call in the immediate wake of the Cougars’ football game against Stanford being canceled.

Washington and Utah both needed an opponent. For the Pac-12 Conference, the decision was clear.

His statistics through two games don’t leap off the stat sheet so much as they hop. His deep balls often travel as though he is expecting DK Metcalf to track them down instead of a typical college receiver.

Immediate and long-term scheduling news for Washington State’s men’s basketball team came out Tuesday, one day before the Cougars’ season opener.

With the introduction of a 10 p.m. curfew in California, the kickoff time for the Dec. 4 game between Washington State and USC has been moved up by a half-hour.

Two Pac-12 coaches on fragile footing are scheduled to duel Saturday afternoon, but the terrain isn’t the same for Arizona’s Kevin Sumlin as it is for UCLA’s Chip Kelly.

For the third time in less than a month, somebody expected to sign with Washington State in the class of 2021 has decommitted from the Cougars and opened his recruitment. 

Top-ranked Coeur d'Alene had yet to face a team as dynamic and tested as Rocky Mountain when they recently met in a no-fans-allowed 5A state semifinal.

A recap of the Week 3 action and inaction …

Any team, any time, any place.

While recovering from COVID-19, Kyle Smith has temporarily put his basketball team in the hands of Jim Shaw and shouldn’t have much to worry about when Washington State tips off Wednesday without its head coach on the bench at Beasley Coliseum.

They canceled the Apple Cup? Man, where was this pandemic when Mike Leach needed it?

Four days after he was drafted in the second round by the Portland Trail Blazers, Washington State forward CJ Elleby received more affirmation his decision to leave school early was the correct one.

Gaskins, who wound up working his final college game with Northcott in the 2002 Orange Bowl to end a 17-year career as a Pac-10 football official, died Thursday at his Pullman home with his wife of 56 years, Felica, two children and five grandchildren by his side.