Damn If I Can Figure Out These Cougs

Raise your hand if you can figure out the Cougars. I can’t. For all the world, I figured we’d lose to the Beavers in Corvallis last night. We hadn’t won a Pac-12 game on the road. I assumed the Beavers were better than us, even though we beat them in Spokane earlier this year. But what a nice surprise it was to turn on the...

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The Mike Leach Madness Continues

I had a brief e-mail exchange yesterday with WSU assistant athletic director Dan Meyer, who either heard what I said on “The Kevin Calabro Show” or read what I wrote on this website about wanting to get season tickets. So he contacted me about that. I haven’t gotten them as yet, but I will, probably in section 24, either two...

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Behind-The-Scenes Look At Acquiring Mike Leach

This Go 2 Guy website note – usually every Thursday, I pay tribute to the 2008 Huskies, mocking that 0-12 team since the Seattle Times is doing its own flashback series for the co-national championship team in 1991. But because of the Mike Leach hiring in Pullman, I’ll be writing tomorrow about the Huskies’ record-setting...

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Bow Down To Willingham – Book Review

The Seattle Times has been revisiting the 1991 co-national championship season with weekly flashbacks this year. Today the newspaper featured Washington’s 56-21 win in the Apple Cup. Because I’m pretty much a smart-ass if nothing else, I’m revisiting my favorite Husky season of all-time, the one in 2008 when Washington went...

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Cougs Win! Cougs Win!

PULLMAN – Wow. The Cougs beat Arizona State 37-27 last night at Martin Stadium. And even though I’m in town for Dads’ Weekend, I almost didn’t go to the game. Obviously, I’m glad that I did. It was the far-and-away best win in the four years of the Paul Wulff era, which I figured would end in two weeks but might go on for...

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