A couple years ago, former IFC President Charlie Maier had an idea a lot of people liked. In response to the lighting, safety and maintenance concerns on portions of College Hill, he wanted to put up one light post with a statement on it regarding safety on College Hill from the students…

First off, we want to thank you for your interest in the issues. We’d like to say thanks to so many for the incredible support over the past month. Below are some of our big ideas we will implement once in office. Please understand our space here is limited…

Three years ago, just before I started writing this column, an older sportswriter gave me the most disturbing advice. “If you really love sports, then stop writing about them,” he said. “When you start covering it to close, it’s just a job. You know things you wish you didn’t…

He sat there in front of the microphones Sunday night like he has so many times in the past, humbly answering questions like a well-oiled machine after his team won another ballgame. This has always been the way Tony Bennett has handled winning in this remarkable run for Cougar basketball…

Well that really sucked. Because an in-depth description of Saturday's one-two punch given to us by the Cougars and Seahawks would be too vulgar to put in print (this is a PG-13 column), The Hot Corner decided to take the easier approach – touch on a bunch of things that may or may not be relevant to this depressing moment in the sports world…

Paul Wulff didn’t see any shame in it, and yet, it’s that type of thinking that got him the job he has today. “It’s the only thing I could find to pack them in,” he chuckled. “I’ve really had to kind of shoot from the hip this past month.” No doubt he has…

It’s almost midnight on Wednesday, and Alex Brink is just getting home from a three-day trip in New York City. In the past 24 hours, he’s flown across the country, transferred planes, and then made the foggy drive from the airport in Spokane down to Pullman…

On a counter, outside Jim Sterk’s office, sits a bowl of candy. And every day, different staff, coaches and trainers inside the athletic department drop in to grab a sugar fix and chat with Sterk’s secretary, Jenny Hayton, who started filling the bowl when she got the job in 2003…

Editor’s Note: Given the lack of focus and sports related material The Hot Corner has(n’t) generated lately, (i.e. letters to God, hacking into chat rooms, running phony classifieds for sports figures, etc.), and given the uncertainty about the climax of this football season…

Dear God, Help our football teams. Please. Times are tough up here in the Northwest, and I’m beginning to think you’ve forgotten about us. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the Seahawks still haven’t won a Super Bowl. And the Cougars haven’t won a Rose Bowl since 1916…

What a different feeling it all has this week, one win later. In a strange twist in the most twisted of Pac-10 seasons, the Cougars unearthed a pretty remarkable truth about the 2007 football season after beating UCLA in Martin Stadium on Saturday night…

Tony Bennett walked into the first team meeting of the season earlier this month, and in his hand he held a DVD. “Enjoy this,” he said, looking around the room full of players. On the DVD was a highlight reel of all the great moments from last season. And so for about five minutes…

Oh basketball, where art thou? Make the pain stop. Somebody, somewhere, please make it stop. God? Tony Bennett? Anyone, just end the misery that is this football season. Not a whole lot to be happy about in the sports world these days. And since going in-depth on any of the following topics is too gruesome of a task…

It had such a strange feeling, that press conference room on Saturday night. There were the stat sheets being passed around, confirming that the man who stood at the podium was in fact now the all-time leading passer at WSU. And yet there stood Alex Brink…

I hate writing this column. You must know that. Truly, I adore Bill Doba. He’s one of the most genuine guys I’ve ever known, and sincerity isn’t something you run into a whole lot in this industry. And for what it’s worth, I still believe he’s a good football coach…