Washington Huskies Rumors & News
Kelemete looking forward to first start at left tackle
Husky Football Blog | Seattle Times — Of the many subplots in tomorrow's game. one of the more subtle is the first start for Senio Kelemete (pictured right) at one of the most important positions --- left tackle. The junior started last year at guard before making the move to tackle in the spring, and has performed so well in the run-up to the season that UW coach Steve Sarkisian has taken to referring to him as an "all-conference player,'' --- often not even making the qualifier that he has yet to earn those honors. It appeared for a while as if this might not be the optimum beginning for Kelemete when he suffered a high ankle ...
6 mins agoHuskies set to launch "locker10in10'' campaign Saturday
Husky Football Blog | Seattle Times — The Washington Huskies and QB Jake Locker will be in the national spotlight when they play at Brigham Young at 4 p.m. And UW will try to maximize the attention focused on UW by launching its website promoting Locker Saturday at 10:10 a.m. (the timing an obvious play on Locker's jersey number and the year). Pictured to the right is how the front page will appear (though without coming soon). Here's a link. The website features a section called "The Real Jake Locker", which provides an in-depth look at Locker's personality and upbringing in Ferndale. Additionally, school officials have helped...
2 hours agoHear me ramble about the Huskies, and vote in the great Jake debate
Husky Football Blog | Seattle Times — Wanted to make sure you saw that I was a guest of Jerry Brewer's on his Dynamic Duel podcast today, previewing the UW-BYU game, as well as tackling a lot of other issues related to Washington football. Here's the link. As you can see, Jerry also linked a couple of other earlier discussions, as well. Also, here's some video from the Great Jake Debate, being hosted this week by Varsity News, which is asking the question this week of which was the best high school QB in state history --- Jake Locker or Jake Heaps? Here's how to vote in the poll.
2 hours agoFriday morning links
Husky Football Blog | Seattle Times — Just about time to get to the airport and hop on a plane to Salt Lake City, so onto the links. ... --- For my story for Friday's paper I wrote about Cody Bruns, who finally appears in position to contribute significantly in the rotation at receiver. --- The Salt Lake Tribune says BYU will probably go running-back-by-committee and a story on Steve Sarkisian's return to Provo. --- The Deseret News looks at a matchup of two Washington-bred QBs named Jake and reviews the 2008 game in Seattle. A Deseret News columnist also wonders if two QBs isn't one too many for BYU. And the paper also has a not...
6 hours agoHuskies build 2010 campaigns around Locker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer — Jake Locker, the unassuming team player and the reason for renewed optimism in Montlake, is also the face of an aggressive campaign for the biggest individual honor in college sports. His success will go a long way to define the Huskies' season.
13 hours agoCody Bruns ready to contribute for UW
Seattle Times — In his third year in the program, record-setting Prosser receiver Cody Bruns is eager to make an impact in the Huskies' receiving rotation.
15 hours agoGame 1 West Conference Finals: Seattle (2-0) v. Phoenix (2-0)
Seattle Times — STORM WINS: And another goose egg is gone with Seattle getting its first postseason win against Phoenix in a 82-74 decision before a sell out crowd of 9,686. The Storm lead by as many as 15 but if it weren't for Wright being aggressive in the fourth quarter, drawing fouls and making half of the ensuing FT attempts, one of the Mercury's other stars may have helped them win the game. Taurasi fouled out with 54 seconds remaining and shooting 2 of 15 from the field. Dupree led her new team with 15 points and 11 boards for her second postseason double-double. "Phoenix controlled it a little more th...
15 hours agoMore on the Husky Stadium renovation
Husky Football Blog | Seattle Times — Here's a bit more on the Husky Stadium renovation stuff released today. First, here's the flyover video that was produced: And here's a link to the press release that includes a full question-and-answer page that should, well, answer all the questions you have about the renovation project.
17 hours agoUW releases Husky Stadium renderings
Husky Football Blog | Seattle Times — UW released renderings of the Husky Stadium renovations on Thursday. The $250 million project was awarded to Seattle's Wright Runstad & Co. in early August. Click here for Bob Condotta's story on Wright Runstad & Co. being awarded the bid. Construction is tentatively scheduled to begin after the 2011 season.
19 hours agoESPN examines the UW-BYU game, and a couple of links
Husky Football Blog | Seattle Times — A couple quick links as kickoff nears. ... --- ESPN.com has a couple of good overviews of the UW-BYU game. First is this video from Andrea Adelson, who says that "quarterbacks will take center stage'' in the game and says that UW has a good chance to break its 12-game road losing streak. She notes that BYU has struggled in the past with athletic QBs who can run, notably Florida State's Christian Ponder (and you figure that comparisons of how Locker does against BYU and how Ponder did a year ago in FSU's 54-28 win could loom large in the Heisman race). No prediction is made, however. --- Also...
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- Defensive Issues Inside USC | Los Angeles Daily News You could argue it was a first game. In Hawaii. And the Warriors ran a spread-out offense. A less charitable view would be that USC's defense showed some disturbing tendencies that were peculiar to last season, especially in the Stanford...
- Examining the Pac-10 football weekend Orange County Register It won't become the SEC or the Big Ten overnight. It can't yet rival the Big 12. It's closing in on the ACC and the Big East. And with several challenging contests in this opening weekend, the Pac-10 has a valuable opportunity to raise its national...
- Football: Live chat reminder (again) BearTalk | Oakland Tribune Just a reminder that I will be resuming our live chat that I had to end early yesterday today at 1 p.m. I should be able to access all the questions I didn’t get to yesterday as well. Hope to see you there.
- Football: Better late than never links BearTalk | Oakland Tribune Here’s my feature on Keenan Allen that ran today. This kid has some big expectations. We got to finish Thursday’s live chat today (gotta love technology). Here’s the transcript.