Washington Huskies Rumors & News
Thursday night links
Husky Football Blog | Seattle Times — A few more to pass along (sorry, my creativitiy has been blunted by the rare appearance of the Arizona sun). --- NFL Draft expert Rob Rang has a nice breakdown of UW's Pro Day and notes how much Daniel Te'o-Nesheim may have helped himself. --- ESPN's Ted Miller looks at the strengths and weaknesses of the Huskies entering spring practice. The strength? QB. Weakness? Defensive end. --- Former Husky Manse Hopoi is playing for the Kent Predators of the Professional Indoor Football League. The first home game is Friday night against Fairbanks. --- There's way more out there on the Oregon situation...
1 hour agoCalifornia-Oregon game thread
Husky Men's Basketball Blog | Seattle Times — Photo credit: Getty Images - Stephen Dunn SCHEDULE REMINDER --- Don't forget, we'll having a Live Chat that will start in a few minutes. POST-GAME ANALYSIS --- Great tournament start for Cal. Four starters scored in double figures, including Randle (22 points), Christopher (21), Boykin (15) and Amoke (12). In his final Oregon game, Porter finished with 26 points on 8-for-22 shooting. I won the bet. Just barely. And if it's the final game for Kent, then he went down fighting until the last second. IT'S OVER --- Cal wins 90-74. OREGON STILL FIGHTING --- The Ducks refuse to believe the game is ...
3 hours agoA couple quick notes --- WSU opens up another bye before Apple Cup
Husky Football Blog | Seattle Times — Spring training duty keeping me busier than normal today, so not much time for this blog. But here are a couple quick links: --- The Cougars moved a home game against Cal from Nov. 20 to Nov. 6. This gives WSU two weeks off before the Apple Cup, one reason for the switch. Another is that students are already out of class on that weekend and there had been a worry it would be low attended, as was a home game on that same weekend this year against Oregon State. Nov. 20 was the original date for the Apple Cup, but both UW and WSU wanted to move the game back two weeks to create some in-season bye...
6 hours agoLauren Jackson re-signs with Seattle
Seattle Times — Australian star Lauren Jackson (pictured right by Getty Images) re-signed with the Storm on Thursday, preparing to play her 10th -- yes 10th -- season in Seattle. The announcement is actually a formality since Jackson verbally agreed to a two-year deal with the Storm prior to leaving in September.
6 hours agoPac-10 tournament picks, links
Seattle Times — Is there anyone not picking No. 2 Stanford to win its fourth consecutive tournament title? Of course every team has to "play to win," but even as Cardinal coach Tara VanDerveer speaks of resting players for the NCAA tournament, none have proven to have the depth and talent to get past the powerhouse.
6 hours agoLive from LA!
Husky Men's Basketball Blog | Seattle Times — SCHEDULE UPDATE: I'll start an Arizona-UCLA game thread and blog through the game. Same goes for the California-Oregon contest. Then let's do a Live Chat during the break around 5 p.m. Sound good? So check back periodically. It's going to be a long, fun and exciting day.
8 hours agoArizona-UCLA game thread
Husky Men's Basketball Blog | Seattle Times — Photo credit: AP Photo - Mark J. Terrill POST-GAME ANALYSIS -- It seems as if the Bruins live and die with Reeves Nelson (above, center). He missed the previous four games and UCLA went 1-3. He returned today and led the Bruins to a relatively easy six-point victory while outplaying Williams, the Freshman of the Year. Williams needed 15 shots to score 14 points. He also had seven rebounds. Meanwhile Nelson finished with 19 points and 11 rebounds, both game-highs. The Bruins got a big lift from seniors Michael Roll and Nikola Dragovic, who each scored 18 points. Not sure if UCLA can go on a th...
8 hours agoLots of polls, Pac-10 picks and the UW-OSU winner
Husky Men's Basketball Blog | Seattle Times — We're winding down and much like the Huskies, we're hitting our stride late in the season with the picks. For the second straight outing, we had multiple posters correctly pick all the games Saturday. Here's a list of the winners: uwhoops, dawgpack, ProgressiveDawg, huskyonspeed and ellensburgcoug, who filed a little late, but we'll let it slide. In the Guess the UW Score game, we had another tie. Imagine that. It never happened all season, then it happened twice in the past five days. Strange. Two posters came the closest to predicting UW's 82-70 victory at Oregon State. The big winner sare v...
12 hours agoOregon goes overtime to start the Pac-10 Tournament
Husky Men's Basketball Blog | Seattle Times — Photo credit: AP Photo - Mark J. Terrill If tonight's 82-80 overtime Oregon win was a sample of what's on tap, then it's going to be one heckuva week down here in Los Angeles. It's a short turnaround for the Ducks, who face top-seed California tomorrow at 2:40 p.m. Not sure how the game looked on FSN, but I watched this one from the Staples Center stands with a few friends and let's just say we had a few rows all to ourselves. There were considerably more Washington State fans in the arena than Duck supporters. Most Cougar fans were questioning coach Ken Bone's moves late in the game. Many Hu...
20 hours agoWashington's Isaiah Thomas taking hold of the reins on offense
Seattle Times — For several long seconds, it looked as if Isaiah Thomas wouldn't get up after crashing to the court Saturday at Oregon State's Gill Coliseum...
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- Jerome Randle and Cal Bears roll over Oregon Ducks in Pac-10 men's basketball tournament Oakland Tribune Randle and deadly 3-point shooting propel Cal against Oregon
- Gary Peterson: Strong effort from Max Zhang a welcome sight for Cal Oakland Tribune Welcome to the Department of Snap Judgments. On your mark, get set, scrutinize: Highly impressive win by Cal in its Pac-10 tournament opener against Oregon on Thursday.
- Cal Bears seek revenge against Arizona State in Pac-10 women's basketball tournament Oakland Tribune Stanford's Ogwumike is Pac-10 Player of Year
- Basketball: Cal postgame notes BearTalk | Oakland Tribune A few notes of interest (presumably) . . . – Jerome Randle needs just 11 points to move past Cal career scoring king Sean Lampley, whose record total of 1,776 points. – Patrick Christopher now has 1,654 points, just one behind Kevin Johnson, two behind Joe Shipp. With three points, Christopher moves to No. 4 on the [...]
- Oregon State baseball: Pat Casey, Darwin Barney among candidates for College World Series Legends Behind The Beavers Beat | Oregonian As the College World Series prepares to bid farewell to Omaha's Rosenblatt Stadium after crowning a 2010 champion, the NCAA is asking fans to vote for their all-time CWS Legends Team. Two names on the ballot -- OSU coach Pat Casey and former Beavers shortstop Darwin Barney -- key figures on OSU's 2006 and 2007 national championship teams.
- Slide show: Cal wins Pac-10 Tournament opener San Jose Mercury News Cal tops Oregon 90-74.
- Mariners 6, Giants 2 -- Snell solid, more of Moore and Lincecum Mariners Insider | Tacoma News-Tribune Said Giants manager Bruce Bochy: They have a good lineup, their top two guys are going to be gnats. BOX SCORE For the second straight day, Manager Don Wakamatsu heaped praise on catcher Adam Moore, who made two nice plays on bunts, threw out a runner at second trying to steal and went 1-for-2 with two walks. On [...]
- LaGarrette Blount always planned to work out on March 18 Seahawks Blog | Seattle Times Oregon running back LaGarrette Blount wasn't at his school's pro day on Thursday, but that was not a surprise. He never planned to be, according to agent Zeke Sandhu.Sandhu said in a phone interview Thursday night Blount always planned to work out at Oregon's second pro day on March 18, and NFL teams were advised of that."That was already predetermined," Sandhu said.So Blount didn't go blow off any workout, he stuck to the plan that had already been set, and he'll run next week for NFL teams.Why would Oregon need two pro days, you ask?Well, Brian McIntyre of Mac's Football Blog had an answer t...
- Under pressure, Mariners hope they can be good — and goofy Seattle Times Being fun and likable doesn't always make a team pitch, hit or play defense better, but in a game where success is often defined by having the mental capacity to overcome frequent failure, the good vibes help.
- Mariners catcher Adam Moore impressive in spring training Seattle Times Rob Johnson is seemingly entrenched as the Mariners' starting catcher, but is recovering from offseason hip surgery and has yet to play this spring, while Adam Moore is hitting .571.
- Mariners hand Lincecum, Giants 6-2 loss Seattle Times The Mariners tagged Tim Lincecum in 2 2-3 innings of work on Thursday en route to a 6-2 win over the San Francisco Giants.
- Catching up with Taylor Graham Sounders FC Blog | Seattle Times It was nice to see Taylor Graham out in training Wednesday at Qwest Field. The veteran defender has been dealing with a nagging hamstring injury for most of the preseason, but is on the road to recovery. I recently caught up with Graham to talk about his recovery and some goals for the season. * * * (How do you feel and what's it like out training again?) It's feel good. I came back a little too soon last time and it set me back 10 days or so, which was frustrating because I thought I was making good, quick progress. I want to play. I feel like I've been cursed the last few years with ...