athletics

Cougar grad Travis Long inks contract with Eagles

Travis Long closes in for sack. Photo Courtesy of Brian Phillips and WSU Athletics     Related   07-29-13 Philadelphia Daily News/Philly.com – Eagles sign Washington State OLB Travis Long 07-29-13 CSN Philly – Eagles sign rookie outside linebacker Travis Long  Go to Cougars.com for more information on Cougar football Wikipedia – Travis Long bio PHILADELPHIA […]

WSC athlete Jack Kelleher killed after wound, return to combat

WSC varsity track team 1940-41.  Jack Kelleher, bottom row, far left. Photo courtesy of WSU Athletics.       Stories that Live Forever Editor’s Note: This article is the 12th installment in a series titled “Stories that Live Forever.” The series, written by Jason Krump, WSU Athletics, originated in 2007 to commemorate Memorial Day and honor […]

Coug football No. 1 Pac-10 All-Academic Team

Football academics rise sharply under Coach Paul Wulff     Related:   11-15-10 ESPN Northwest – Why Wulff Needs Another Year    11-15-10 KXLY – Wulff win and recruiting should earn him another year (click photo for video commentary) 11-15-10 Ted Miller’s Pac-10 Blog – notes : “Wulff inherited a disaster … but the black smoke […]

KXLY extends WSU football, basketball agreement

PULLMAN – WSU Athletics and the KXLY Broadcast Group announced Thursday, Oct. 14, the extension of an agreement in which KXLY-AM will remain the radio broadcast flagship station for football and men’s basketball through the 2013-14 academic year.    The KXLY Broadcast Group and KXLY-AM 920 have been synonymous with Cougar football broadcasts for more than three […]

Photo gallery: WSU vs. UO football

Photos by Robert Hubner, WSU Photo Services         Related: WSU Cougar Athletics photo gallery 10-11-10 Spokesman-Review – WSU’s kickoff return coverage best in nation 10-10-10 Spokesman-Review – WSU hits third-quarter snag in upset bid over No. 3 Oregon 10-10-10 Examiner – WSU Football | A final look at the Oregon game 10-09-10 […]

More sports viewing, less rape intervention

  Stacey Hust with graduate students Chunbo Ren, left, and Ming Lei. (Photo by Tim Marsh, WSU Today)     Sexualization of sports “People just think sports is sport,” Hust said. But once you start looking critically at how women athletes are portrayed in the media, she said, it begins to look like women’s sports is […]

Grimes Way Playfield nearing completion

    Photos and article by Robert Frank, WSU Today     Related 07-15-10, WSU Today – Green space created around Grimes Playfield 02-09-2010, WSU Today – Recreational playfield project up for comment WSU Today – Returfing Martin Stadium Capital Planning and Development – Recreational playfield improvement project About Field Turf How the Field Turf […]

Fall practices under way for Cougar volleyball

Photos by Shelly Hanks, WSU Photo Services     PULLMAN – The WSU women’s volleyball team is gearing up for another great season, with fall practice sessions in full swing under third-year Head Coach Andrew Palileo, the 2009 Pacific-10 Conference Coach of the Year.   WSU is coming off an 18-13 overall record, 6-12 Pac-10 […]

WSU soccer beats Coug volleyball, 5-2

              Slideshow and article by Tim Marsh, WSU Today     PULLMAN – The women’s soccer team squared off against the women’s volleyball team Wednesday evening, Aug. 11, at Bailey-Brayton field, in softball game that was all Cougars.   In the end, the Cougar soccer team beat their WSU volleyball counterparts, 5-2, in exhibition action. […]

Cougars to face Pilots in Hardwood Classic

PULLMAN – The WSU men’s basketball team will take on Pacific Northwest foe, Portland, at the 2010 Cougar Hardwood Classic held Nov. 23 at Seattle’s KeyArena, Idol Sports and Entertainment announced Thursday.   This will be the sixth-straight year for the Cougar Hardwood Classic which began in 2005 against Utah. WSU has also faced San […]