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No. 4 Ole Miss holds off Washington State's upset bid
Trinidad Chambliss threw two touchdown passes and ran for a touchdown, and No. 4 Ole Miss held off an upset attempt by Washington State in a 24-21 victory Saturday in Oxford, Miss.,Chambliss completed 20 of 29 for 253 yards, and the Rebels (6-0) got 142 rushing yards from Kewan Lacy and prevailed de...
No. 18 Gonzaga takes care of Washington St. with strong second half
Graham Ike posted 21 points on Saturday night to lead five Gonzaga scorers in double figures as the 18th-ranked Bulldogs pulled away in the second half for an 88-75 West Coast Conference win over Washington State in Spokane, Wash. ,Nolan Hickman added 19 points, while Ben Gregg stuffed the stat shee...
New Mexico upends No. 18 Washington St. in final minute
Quarterback Devon Dampier rushed for a 1-yard touchdown with 21 seconds left Saturday night and New Mexico rallied from a 14-point deficit in the third quarter to upset No. 18 Washington State 38-35 in Albuquerque.,Dampier gained 193 yards on 28 carries and scored three times as the Lobos improved t...
John Mateer (5 TDs) leads No. 21 Washington St. past Utah St.
John Mateer threw for four touchdowns and ran for a fifth Saturday night as No. 21 Washington State kept its longshot hopes of a College Football Playoff berth alive with a 49-28 thumping of Utah State in Pullman, Wash.,Mateer completed 18 of 24 passes for 179 yards while running for 38 yards on 12 ...
Nick Nash, San Jose State take aim at Washington State
San Jose State and Washington State both feature 3-0 records and standout offensive players entering Friday night's game at Pullman, Wash.,Nick Nash, who is the Mountain West Offensive Player of the Week, set the San Jose State record for receptions in a regular-season game with 17 in a 31-10 victor...
Pac-12 Football Players Use Their Platforms To Promote #WeAreUnited Message, Demand Better Treatment
Since the #WeAreUnited letter released via the Players’ Tribune, Pac-12 players have come out to publicly support the letter written by a collection of conference athletes....
Mike Leach, Convinced Of His Own Cleverness, Tells Unbearably Long Joke About Lip Reading
Asked Monday evening whether he’s nervous for next week’s matchup against No. 11 Oregon, where four of his former assistants now work, Mike Leach used the opportunity to take a swipe at football coaches so paranoid about their plays being found out that they cover their mouths while talking on the s...
Mike Leach Bemoans Washington State Players For Being Too Much Like Mike Leach
Mike Leach talks about Washington State football the same way he shares tales of tracking raccoons, opinions on Halloween candy and tweets featuring a doctored video of President Barack Obama meant to rile up and confuse an older conservative base. That is to say he appears to do it without much tho...
UCLA Scored 50 Points In 20 Minutes For A Psychedelic Comeback Against Washington State
Only the true East Coast degenerates—not even myself, if we’re coming clean—would have had the guts and belief to stick with UCLA’s game at Washington State after 1 a.m. Sunday morning, when the No. 19 ranked Cougars went up 49-17 on the winless Bruins midway through the third quarter. But those who...
There's Nothing More Predictable Than Mike Leach Suddenly Having Dumb Thoughts About Homeless People
College football coaches tend to be graded on a steep and extremely generous curve when it comes to their personalities. How well they do or don’t do their jobs is easy enough to assess, because it creates a binary win/loss record that reflects the sum of the players they recruit and the assistants ...
Mike Leach Is Taking The Football-As-War Metaphor To The Classroom
People in football love to compare the sport to war. Look at all the shared terminology—“in the trenches,” “field general”—the similar sense of ritual bluster, the contrived partnerships between the NFL and the military, the cynical propagandizing of Pat Tillman, and, of course, Kellen Winslow’s spe...
Cal State Northridge Basketball Fan Shrieks Like She's Dying During Free Throws
Last night on SportsCenter, Scott Van Pelt brought attention to the archetypal college basketball fan of a bad team who maybe cares too much. This shrieking Cal State Northridge fan was trying her best to pierce the eardrums of Washington State players—as well as everyone in the stadium, all the cit...
Report: Untrained Pac-12 Exec Was Allowed To Reverse Controversial Targeting Penalty
According to internal documents obtained by Yahoo Sports’ Pete Thamel, a Pac-12 executive who is not a trained official put his thumb on the scale and personally overruled what should have been a targeting penalty. On the final play of the third quarter of Washington State’s Sep. 21 loss to USC, WSU...
Washington State's Jason Gesser Resigns Amid Multiple Reports Of Sexual Misconduct
Former Washington State quarterback Jason Gesser resigned from his position as assistant athletic director Tuesday night, less than a week after the school’s student paper first uncovered a pattern of sexual misconduct that opened the floodgates for additional reports. ...
Tyler Hilinski's Autopsy Shows Former Washington State QB Had CTE
Washington State QB Tyler Hilinski’s family opened up to Sports Illustrated’s Greg Bishop about their son’s death by suicide and how they’ve been coping since. Hilinski was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound in January, and according to an autopsy of Hilinski’s brain performed...
Mike Leach Is Extremely Normal
Mike Leach is not mad, but mostly he is not crazy. He’s your average Fox News viewer, mostly, but also famous and rich and the best-paid public employee in the state of Washington....
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Yes, That Video Of Obama That Mike Leach Tweeted Is Very Fake [Update]
Mike Leach might’ve officially lost it....
Mike Leach Tracked A Raccoon Because He "Was Curious Where It Lived"<em></em><em></em>
Washington State head football coach Mike Leach met with reporters Tuesday to answer the boring offseason questions coaches are supposed to answer, like how the incoming freshman class is progressing, who looked good in spring workouts, and how to properly track a raccoon through suburbia. You know,...
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Former WSU Player Sues Mike Leach, Says Coach Only Enforced "Three Sins" Rule When He Felt Like It [Update]
Washington State football coach Mike Leach has said he has a policy that any player who commits one of three acts will get kicked out of the program: violence against women, illegal drugs, and stealing. One former Cougars player is suing because he says he was unfairly dismissed, and Leach isn’t act...
Washington State Gives Community Service Award To Player For Completing Court-Ordered Service
A hearty congratulations to Washington State linebacker Logan Tago for being awarded the Fall 2017 CCE Community Involvement Award! Tago notched an impressive 240 hours in the community during the fall semester. ...