Sports

Harlem Globetrotters world tour at Beasley Feb. 15

    PULLMAN – The legendary Harlem Globetrotters, celebrating their 85th consecutive season, will perform their 2011 World Tour beginning 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 15, at Beasley Colisieum.   Tickets for the event are on sale at Beasley and through all TicketsWest outlets. To order call 1-800-325-SEAT, or go online here, or go to Beasley Coliseum, […]

Midnight Mayhem 2010 strikes WSU

Photos by Robert Hubner, WSU Photo Services   PULLMAN – Midnight Mayhem 2010 struck WSU’s Friday night at Beasley Coliseum, as the men’s and women’s basketball teams gave previews of their lineups and the season to come. Catch a peek of the excitement.

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 […]

WSU Athletics and ISP Sports add to radio network

    PULLMAN – WSU Athletics and ISP Sports have added Seattle-based radio station KIXI, 880 AM, to the WSU ISP Sports Network, it was announced Thursday, Sept. 23.   The addition of KIXI provides extended coverage of Cougar football to the Seattle area, providing another outlet for WSU fans to listen to Bob Robertson and Jim […]

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 […]

ESPN GameDay flag wavers celebrated at game

      PULLMAN – A Cougar logo flag has flown for seven years over football games televised by ESPN across the country, but it came home Saturday in honor of the man who started the movement.   “I have chills just thinking about it,” said alumnus and originator Tom Pounds (’81 Engr.), after he […]

Moos names new senior associate athletic director

Marlow PULLMAN – WSU Director of Athletics Bill Moos announced Monday that Mike Marlow, most recently a senior associate athletics director at the University of Oregon, has accepted WSU’s offer to become a senior associate athletic director for the Cougars. Marlow will officially begin his duties Tuesday, Aug. 24.   “Mike Marlow is considered by […]

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 […]