Washington State Cougars

You have to applaud the University of Wisconsin for taking the non-conference scheduling ball and running with it now that the college football landscape has finally changed. Since the four-team playoff was approved and strength of schedule became a key...

The Sports Xchange Press Box: Jenkins back to Arizona, Beckham may buy MLS team COLLEGE FOOTBALL When he announced in December that he would transfer to Washington State, Arizona running back Daniel Jenkins said he would always be a Wildcat at heart....

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT If 2011 first-round pick Gabe Carimi is trying to punch his ticket out of Chicago after two disappointing seasons, he's on the right path. Carimi is absent from OTAs that started this...

Oregon's Becca Friday (Bellingham) finished second in the women's 1,500 meters on Sunday, May 12, at the Pacific-12 Conference Track and Field Championships in Los Angeles. Friday's time of 4 minutes, 14.99 seconds was just one tenth of a second...

A year after reaching the NCAA Championships round for only the seventh time in program history, the University of Memphis men's golf team returns to the postseason with longer odds of making an eighth trip to the final round. The Tigers earned an at-...

NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT In his one season of major-college football, Bears first-round pick Kyle Long started his only five games at left guard. But he lined up exclusively at right guard during the weekend's rookie minicamp...

Bold non-conference schedules will serve Virginia Tech, Virginia and the ACC well as college football drives toward the playoff era. The challenge is in balancing that ambition with business and competitive concerns. Strength-of-schedule has long been a...

The WWU club baseball team qualified for the conference tournament for the fourth consecutive year by winning the Western Division of the Northwest Pacific Conference with a series win over the University of Oregon. The tournament will be held in La...

What started as a mere dream for Washington State is turning into a reality as Palouse Ridge Golf Club, a course that WSU opened in 2009, is preparing to host its first ever NCAA Regional Tournament. "We have from day one opened this place with the idea...

Steve Card, who last week was named interim director of athletics at Western Washington University, has announced that he will not coach the men's golf team during the 2013-14 season after 20 years heading that program. Taking over Card's coaching...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT The last time the Bears drafted a linebacker who was a converted safety -- as they did with this year's fourth-round pick Khaseem Greene -- it turned out pretty well. In 2000 the Bears...

Wide receiver can be one of the more difficult positions to get production from a rookie, but the Bears did well with Alshon Jeffery a year ago. There will certainly be opportunities for Marquess Wilson, the seventh-round pick from Washington State,...