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COLLEGE STATION, Texas – For the second consecutive year, Washington State University has been bestowed with the Diversity in Athletics Award presented by the Laboratory for Diversity in Sport at Texas A&M University. WSU repeated its honor of being recognized in the Overall Excellence in Diversity and Title IX Compliance categories. The Diversity in Athletics […]

Money can’t buy you love. But how about a World Series ring? It’s a timely question for sports fans given that the New York Yankees, MLB’s highest-paid team with a $194.6-million payroll, are poised for a run at their 27th World Series title. Rodney Fort, an economics professor at Washington State University, told the Los […]

Photo: WSU defense swarms University of Oregon

We’re all familiar with Pacific Northwest weather in the winter and spring, especially around the Palouse region: cold, windy, and wet (even icy). Such an environment can make for uncomfortable sport seasons, weather-wise, hampering effective preparation for the spring contests. In those seasons past, the Cougar football team had to travel to the University of […]

The Cougars football team, which has received unprecedented national attention and ranking, will open its season noon Saturday, Aug. 31, against the Nevada Wolf Pack in the newly constructed Seattle Seahawk Stadium. In fact, it will be the first official contest to be played in the stadium. The Cougs were recently ranked 11th by Associated […]

WSU football coaches were happy to learn Friday (June 28) that the Cougs won’t be traveling to Hawaii on Nov. 30, as originally scheduled. Instead, Alabama has announced it will replace WSU as Hawaii#s opponent in Honolulu. The Cougars wanted out of the game after switching their Nov. 17 road game at UCLA to Dec. […]

Sherri Murrell, Washington State University new women’s basketball head coach, announced March 19 the hiring of two assistant coaches — Christopher Holland and Lisa Fisher. Holland and Fisher — who were assistants on Murrell’s staff at the University of the Pacific. Before his year at Pacific, Holland coached at Arizona State, where he was a […]