Whenever football resumes, former Washington State cornerback Sean Harper Jr. will have an opportunity to play in Canada’s pro league, announcing Tuesday he’s agreed to a contract with the BC Lions of the CFL.
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Pac-12 student-athletes, including the football players at Washington State still waiting to hold their first practice under new coach Nick Rolovich, won’t be able to regroup for organized team activities until at least May 31, according to a decision by the conference’s CEOs on Monday.
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Dozens of student-athletes at Washington State, Gonzaga, Eastern Washington and Idaho got their wishes granted Monday when the NCAA Division I Council voted to allow seniors, and others who competed in spring sports, an extra year of eligibility after their seasons were cut short because of the coronavirus outbreak.
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PULLMAN – Before the season started, Kyle Smith and the data-infatuated assistants on his Washington State coaching staff tried to handicap where the Cougars would land on Ken Pomeroy’s rankings map when 2019-20 campaign finished.
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PULLMAN – For two or three hours every day last fall, Bryce Beekman endeared himself to Washington State teammates with an irresistible smile and unmistakable laugh.
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PULLMAN – For two or three hours every day last fall, Bryce Beekman endeared himself to Washington State teammates with an irresistible smile and unmistakable laugh.
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Kyle Smith may not be instructing young adults on the anatomy of pick-and-roll defense now, but it doesn’t mean the first-year Washington State basketball coach is fully escaping teacher mode in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Not until he woke up March 12 could Jeff Pollard fully grasp the breadth of the history he and his Washington State teammates had made the night before, beating Colorado 82-68 in the Pac-12 Tournament.
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This is the first in a three-part series about the abrupt end to Washington State’s basketball season, what the Cougars are doing to stay occupied during the COVID-19 pandemic and what’s next for Kyle Smith’s program coming off a 16-16 record in 2019-20.
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PULLMAN – Bryce Beekman, a redshirt senior defensive back on Washington State’s football team, died Tuesday in Pullman, Pullman Police Commander Jake Opgenorth confirmed to The Spokesman-Review.
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PULLMAN – Bryce Beekman, a redshirt senior defensive back on Washington State’s football team, died Tuesday in Pullman, Pullman Police Commander Jake Opgenorth confirmed to The Spokesman-Review.
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Countless current and former teammates, coaches, friends and others shared their condolences on social media after it was learned rising redshirt senior safety Bryce Beekman died Tuesday night at the age of 22.
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Three days removed from when spring football was supposed to begin at Washington State, first-year Cougars coach Nick Rolovich spoke to local and national reporters Tuuesday in a conference call to discuss the impact of COVID-19, the delay of spring camp and his initiative to support loal restaurants.
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Eastern Washington and Idaho will no longer get the benefit of spring football after the Presidents’ Council of the Big Sky Conference voted Monday to cancel all spring workouts and activities through May 15 in order to prevent further spread of COVID-19.
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PULLMAN – As Pat Chun sat in on a season-ending meeting for Washington State’s baseball team – a gathering that took place last week, nearly two months before it would under normal circumstances – the athletic director briefly thought about A.J. Block.
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One week removed from the NCAA’s decision to cancel its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, spring sports and indefinitely suspend other organized team activities, Washington State Athletics Director Pat Chun spoke with reporters on a Friday afternoon conference call to discuss how the changes have impacted student-athletes in Pullman, as …
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One week removed from the NCAA’s decision to cancel its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, spring sports and indefinitely suspend other organized team activities, Washington State Athletics Director Pat Chun spoke with reporters on a Friday afternoon conference call to discuss how the changes have impacted student-athletes in Pullman, as …
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Even as the coronavirus pandemic has shut down college basketball, the NBA, MLB and NHL, NFL free agency has delivered some uplifting news to fans in eastern Washington and northeast Florida who have a shared admiration for former Washington State and current Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Gardner Minshew.
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Even as the coronavirus pandemic has shut down college basketball, the NBA, MLB and NHL, NFL free agency has delivered some uplifting news to fans in eastern Washington and northeast Florida who have a shared admiration for former Washington State and current Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Gardner Minshew.
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Washington State and seven of its peers in the Pac-12 didn’t get the closure they desperately wanted when the league decided last Thursday to cancel the remainder of its conference tournament in Las Vegas, following the lead of others in the college hoops world amid coronavirus worries.
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During the five years he spent at Washington State, Andre Dillard transformed from a three-star, 240-pound recruit whose only other offers came from Idaho, Portland State and Eastern Washington, to a 315-pound anchor on the left side of the Cougars’ offensive line, blocking for the nation’s top passing attack while …
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Days after cancelling its men’s basketball tournament in Las Vegas and suspending all sports until forther notice, the Pac-12 Conference announced Saturday it will cancel conference and non-conference sport competitions and Pac-12 championships through the end of the academic year.
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Days after cancelling its men’s basketball tournament in Las Vegas and suspending all sports until forther notice, the Pac-12 Conference announced Saturday it will cancel conference and non-conference sport competitions and Pac-12 championships through the end of the academic year.
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LAS VEGAS – Before Washington State’s 2019-20 season started, the Cougars staged two closed-door scrimmages against opponents from the Big Sky Conference.
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LAS VEGAS – Wednesday’s nightcap between No. 11 Washington State and No. 6 Colorado at T-Mobile Arena was the final game of the Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Tournament, after the conference decided to cancel the remainder of the 2020 event due to concerns about the coronavirus illness.
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LAS VEGAS – Wednesday’s nightcap between No. 11 Washington State and No. 6 Colorado at T-Mobile Arena was the final game of the Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Tournament, after the conference decided to cancel the remainder of the 2020 event due to concerns about the coronavirus illness.
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LAS VEGAS – Wednesday’s nightcap between No. 11 Washington State and No. 6 Colorado at T-Mobile Arena was the final game of the Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Tournament, after the conference decided to cancel the remainder of the 2020 event due to concerns about the coronavirus illness.
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LAS VEGAS – Wednesday’s nightcap between No. 11 Washington State and No. 6 Colorado at T-Mobile Arena was the final game of the Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Tournament, after the conference decided to cancel the remainder of the 2020 event due to concerns about the coronavirus illness.
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Unless Washington State can win four games in Las Vegas, the Cougars’ 2019-20 basketball season will presumably end this week at the Pac-12 Conference Tournament.
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LAS VEGAS – Aligning with the school’s decision to move in-person classes to online formats following the spring break, Washington State athletics announced new attendance protocols Wednesday for home competitions that will take effect later this week.
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LAS VEGAS – The lead already seemed good enough when Jeff Pollard caught the ball down low and slipped an inside bounce pass to Tony Miller, who drove to the basket, cocked his right arm back and punched the ball through the net, putting all 6-foot-8, 262 pounds of Evan …
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LAS VEGAS – Kyle Smith was a 39-year-old assistant at Saint Mary’s – three coaching stops and 11 years removed from where he is now – when Washington State last won a game in the Pac-12/10 Conference Tournament.
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LAS VEGAS – A statement from the Pac-12 Conference on Tuesday has reaffirmed that in the wake of concerns surrounding coronavirus, the league will still hold its men’s basketball tournament without interruption this week at T-Mobile Arena.
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LAS VEGAS – Mark Few and Gonzaga have built plenty of streaks through the years, and many of them during the West Coast Conference Tournament at Orleans Arena.
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LAS VEGAS – A statement from the Pac-12 Conference on Tuesday has reaffirmed that in the wake of concerns surrounding coronavirus, the league will still hold its men’s basketball tournament without interruption this week at T-Mobile Arena.
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LAS VEGAS – Gonzaga relinquished a 20-point lead built in the first quarter and the top-seeded Bulldogs couldn’t overcome fourth-seeded Portland for the third time this season, losing 70-69 at the Orleans Arena.
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LAS VEGAS – Gonzaga’s magnificent start to Monday’s West Coast Conference Tournament semifinal was charged by a 14-0 run that stretched more than four minutes at the Orleans Arena.
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LAS VEGAS – The international coronavirus outbreak has now touched the West Coast Conference, though the league doesn’t plan on taking any extreme measures after it was learned Monday a man who attended a Feb. 22 game between Gonzaga and Brigham Young in Provo, Utah, was diagnosed with the fast-spreading …
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LAS VEGAS – The international coronavirus outbreak has now touched the West Coast Conference, though the league doesn’t plan on taking any extreme measures after it was learned Monday a man who attended a Feb. 22 game between Gonzaga and Brigham Young in Provo, Utah, was diagnosed with the fast-spreading …
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LAS VEGAS – As the top scorer and rebounder Monday evening, Killian Tillie had plenty of moments that stimulated the Gonzaga-friendly crowd in a West Coast Conference Tournament semifinal against San Francisco.
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For the third consecutive year, Washington State will hold the No. 11 seed, take on the No. 6 seed and play in the late game on the opening day of the Pac-12 Tournament at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
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Mike Leach’s staff beefed up Washington State’s defensive line in December, adding two interior linemen and one edge rusher during the early signing period.
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PULLMAN – It’s been more than two full decades since Katie Smith has owned a mailing address in Manson, but a funny thing happens almost every time she returns to the small, shore-side community on Lake Chelan.
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PULLMAN — When athletic director Bill Moos triggered the rollover clause in Ernie Kent’s contract last March, effectively keeping Washington State’s basketball coach in Pullman through 2021 on a base annual salary of $1.4 million, it was first and foremost a vote of confidence from AD to skipper.
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