Maybe it was when I was behind ESPN’s Andy Katz in the buffet line at the Pepsi Center before WSU played Winthrop in the first round of the 2008 NCAA Tournament. Or maybe it was when I found myself as next-urinal-neighbors with CBS Sports’ Gus Johnson – my favorite play-by-play guy – at the same NCAA Tournament…

Lately, the talk among WSU sports fans has been centered on basketball coaches, Apple Cups, budgets and football stadiums – both here and in Seattle. The performance of WSU’s athletics teams hasn’t been front page news. But the most successful team is comprised of the toughest women on campus…

Head Coach Paul Wulff got exactly what he was looking for during spring practices, which officially came to a close on Saturday with the final scrimmage of the spring session. “Everybody got better,” Wulff said. “Every person had a good attitude, they came to work and their mindset was just to get better…

On January 8, Western Washington University announced it was dropping its football program to protect its 15 other sports from budget cuts. The school allowed its football players to remain on scholarship if they stayed at Western. Players who transferred were eligible to play at their new school immediately…

There was an epidemic of quarterback injuries in the Pac-10 last season. And WSU wasn’t immune. WSU lost its top three quarterbacks to injuries at some point last season, with two of them – Gary Rogers and Marshall Lobbestael – missing the rest of the season…

It’s difficult to gauge the WSU football team during spring practices. After all, the entire 2009 team isn’t in Pullman, as most of the players who signed in February on National Letter of Intent Day won’t arrive on campus until fall camp begins. But if Saturday’s scrimmage – the first official scrimmage of the spring session – was any indication of what’s to come…

Two days after being interviewed for the head coaching position at Washington State, Ken Bone was in front of a podium wearing his brand new WSU Cougars tie. WSU Athletic Director Jim Sterk introduced Bone as the new head coach of the WSU men’s basketball program yesterday afternoon…

A week after Tony Bennett left to take the head coaching position at the University of Virginia, WSU Athletic Director Jim Sterk found a successor. Former Portland State coach Ken Bone will be named the head coach of the WSU men’s basketball team today at a 1:30 p…

Perhaps the most mysterious position on the WSU football team this spring is at wide receiver. This young squad lost future NFL talent Brandon Gibson after last season ended and is missing one key component as junior Jeshua Anderson hurtles toward another national title on the track team…

Brothers will kick each other, tackle each other and put each other in headlocks. And it’s usually the mother who has to clean up the mess. For senior Kenny Alfred, the starting center on the WSU football team, his mom – Claudia Alfred – had to deal with two football-playing brothers…

During spring practice and heading into the 2009 football season, the WSU coaches will have to find a way to replace 684 pounds, 156 tackles and three seniors at the linebacker position. Greg Trent, Cory Evans and Kendrick Dunn – the main linebackers last season – have all used up their eligibility for the Cougars…

While the thermometer still reads in the 30s and 40s, the WSU football team was busy yesterday during the first day of the deceivingly named spring football practice. The Cougars took to the field yesterday in a helmets-only session, the first of 15 practices over the next month…

The luck was not with the Cougars on St. Patrick’s Day. It was, however, with Patrick Mills and the Saint Mary’s College Gaels. The Gaels controlled the first game of the National Invitational Tournament against WSU, finishing off the Cougars’ season with a 68-57 victory in Moraga…

If WSU wants to play in its third consecutive NCAA Tournament, the only likely scenario would be to win the Pac-10 Tournament. To do that, the Cougars would have to win four games in four nights – beginning tonight against Oregon about 8:30 p.m. To Head Coach Tony Bennett…

WSU had one representative named to the All-Pac-10 First Team and two to the All-Freshman Team, commissioner Tom Hansen announced Monday. Senior Taylor Rochestie was named to the All-Pac-10 First Team in a year in which he led WSU in scoring with 13.6 points a game…