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read moreBrooke Graduates From WSU
Hey little girl! Guess who’s sitting in the lobby of the Cedars Inn in Ritzville with tears in his eyes? Guess who can’t believe you’re graduating from Washington State already? Didn’t I just take you to kindergarten for your first day of school at Sunset Elementary? Weren’t we just in Indian Princesses with other dads and their 5-to-9-year-old daughters? For that matter, wasn’t it just yesterday when you were born? How did 22 years go by just… like… that? You were born on Mother’s Day, May 12, 1991, and the first...
read moreMy Vet’s The Best Vet Ever
I’ve got a cool vet. I know… everyone who has a dog thinks his vet is cool. But mine’s the coolest. She’s Dr. Terry Tomchick at Alpine Animal Hospital. I’ve known “Dr. Terry” for 25 years. I took my first golden, Murph, to Dr. Terry when he was six weeks old. Fourteen years later, I took my second golden, Willie, to Dr. Terry when he was six weeks old. Willie’s almost 10 years old now. I took him in for a “senior” check-up two weeks ago. In most respects, he’s doing fine. But something showed up in the X-rays. His...
read moreGo 2 Guy Tries To Lose 20 Pounds
For a long time, I weighed 210 pounds. Then for a long time I weighed 220 pounds, then 225, and for the past several years, I’ve held steady at 230. What’s next 240, 250, 300? That’s the fear. But what I’m going to try to do is head in the other direction. I’m shooting for 200 but would be thrilled to hit 210 again. Yesterday was my first day on “The Fast Diet.” I read about it in the Seattle Times a couple of Sundays ago. I’m sure it’s unhealthy as heck, but it sounded like something that might work for me. I have zero...
read moreTough Loss To Take In Pac-12 Tourney
I really thought we were going to beat the Huskies in the Pac-12 tourney last night. We had just come off a couple of great wins over UCLA and USC, and I thought that momentum would carry us past the Dawgs. How confident was I? Confident enough to talk trash over and over again on Facebook, counting down the hours until we would celebrate the win over our rivals. As everyone knows, the Huskies aren’t that good, barely beating us in two regular-season games. I thought this third game set up perfectly for us, realizing we’re not very good...
read moreKernich-Drew Deserves Some Slack
I admit that for about 30 seconds, maybe 60, I was mad at Dexter Kernich-Drew. How could he have fouled E.J. Singler with 3.8 seconds left in overtime with the score tied 77-77? Royce Woolridge had just made an improbable 3-pointer to tie the game. I say improbable because Woolridge isn’t that great of a 3-point shooter. He’s OK, not great. And the situation, with a man in his face? When the Cougs needed it most? For him to deliver at that moment? After DaVonte Lacy made a three to send the game into overtime? I figured we had used up our...
read moreWhattaya Mean I Can’t Run Again?
I haven’t posted anything in a week and a half and I’ll give you the top two reasons why… 1) I have a tendency to be lazy, an affliction that has dogged me for years. 2) I’ve been dealing with a knee injury that has taken me down a bit. Right when I was getting ready to write about letter-of-intent day and trashing the Huskies for something, I got the news that my knee injury was more serious than what the MRI had shown. My doctor, Tom Castle, said I had meniscus damage and other particles that were floating around due to...
read moreCougs Lose But Dawgs Do Too
If you watched the Pac-12 Network for four hours like I did Wednesday night, you know that Oregon beat Washington State 68-61 and Oregon State beat Washington 74-66. The Cougs led 39-29 at halftime, but everyone who follows them knew we’d probably lose, and we did. Just being honest, hate to be pessimistic and glass-is-half-empty when it comes to the Cougs in anything, but our hoops team isn’t very good, and Oregon’s is. The Ducks are ranked 16th in the country. We played great in the first half, making 7 of 13 three-point...
read moreLeaf In Montana State Prison Now
Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get worse for Ryan Leaf, the former Cougar QB violated his treatment plan at a drug-treatment center and was sent to the Montana State Prison. In an Associated Press story, we learn that the staff at the treatment center had exhausted all resources in keeping him there. We also learned that Leaf wanted to drag a staffer by his hair and that he wanted to throw the staffer against a wall and smash a glass into the man’s head. So now he’s in the big house. His five-year sentence for burglary and...
read moreHusky Loss Eases The Cougar Pain
It’s sad but true – a Husky loss takes some of the sting out of a Coug loss. Such was the case last night – Colorado beat Washington State 58-49, but at least Utah defeated Washington 74-65. The Huskies’ loss was worse than ours – Washington was 4-0 in Pac-12 play, and Utah was not only winless, the Utes had never won a conference game on the road. How we beat that Utah team by 10 points on Wednesday night is beyond me. The Utes looked pretty good against the Dawgs. Meanwhile, we looked pretty bad as you know if you watched the...
read moreLeach Cleared, 2013 Schedule, And…
Lots of Coug football news this week with the Pac-12 finding that Mike Leach and his assistant coaches have not been abusive to the players, a claim that Marquess Wilson made when he left the team in November. The 2013 schedule was also released this week with the surprise announcement that the Stanford game will be played in Seattle instead of the Oregon State game. I’m glad that the Pac-12 investigation has finally ended and that Leach was cleared of any wrongdoing. I’ve heard from some Cougs who feel like I’ve got issues with Leach. I...
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