Anyone who has picked up a sports page in the past month has seen Ben Roethlisberger’s name come up quite a bit in the headlines. He has been charged of sexual assault for the second time during his tenure as the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback. Roethlisberger’s case is the most upsetting story attached to a sports star in recent memory…

For those who say major American sports seasons are longer than a 4 p.m. Friday chemistry lab, I couldn’t agree more. The MLB regular season has more games than a day care. The NFL is currently considering switching from a 16-game schedule to an 18-game schedule…

After four years of battles with the NCAA, the University of North Dakota was finally forced to can its Fighting Sioux nickname. The NCAA found the Fighting Sioux nickname “hostile and offensive.” If that’s offensive, as the son of a third-generation Wyoming rancher…

Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski just won his fourth national championship, adding to his reputation as one of the greatest college basketball coaches of all time. As much as Duke haters hate to admit it, he really does embody what it means to be a college basketball coach…

I walked into the Spokane Arena on Sunday with high expectations. I was ready to see clutch players making clutch plays, big-name coaches in big-time games, buzzer-beating jump shots and gorgeous cheerleaders with phone numbers ready to give out. I was counting on all that as I got my ticket stub back and sauntered into the second round of the NCAA Tournament games featuring Michigan State versus Maryland and Texas A&M against Purdue…

The next time Jay-Z sees LeBron James listening to his latest album, he should take it and break it in half. The last thing Jay-Z, who is also the co-owner of the New Jersey Nets, should want is James in an “Empire State of Mind.” If James signs with the Knicks…

It’s going to be a big season for the WSU men’s and women’s club rowing team, and it’s not just because they have 70 rowers out for this years team, 40 of whom are taking their first strokes in the water. “We want to be known as the top club program in the nation…

It’s official. The NFL is bigger than Terrell Owens’ ego. It has been a close contest for a while, but Sunday’s highest-TV-ratings-of-all-time Super Bowl should shut T.O. up once and for all (although losing usually seems to make him talk more). Annoying receivers aside…

Two weeks ago, as the New Orleans Saints kicked an overtime field goal to beat the Minnesota Vikings, I screamed four words. "There is a God!" I've been a Green Bay Packers fan since I was 5, and after years of watching Brett Favre (the adulterer of Packer Nation) throw game-ending…

While the beginning of the semester is back to school for most students, for WSU’s club ski team, it has been “fish back to water.” After spending the fall going through dry land workouts, the eight-person, men and women’s teams have been enjoying the snow…

Rugby provokes heated competition on the field and a tightknit camaraderie off of it. In some cases, the camaraderie extends to a team’s opponents. The WSU Men’s Rugby Club will compete against the rest of the Pac-10 Conference this weekend at a tournament hosted by UCLA…

Freshman guard Reggie Moore had an impressive resume to play basketball for WSU. During his senior year of high school, he averaged a double-double with 20 points and 10 assists. He was the captain of a Rainier Beach High School team that went 29-1 and won the 3A state championship…

Of the 26 freshmen who came to WSU to play football in 2006, senior linebacker Andy Mattingly will be the only one to don the crimson and gray for Saturday’s game versus the Oregon State Beavers. In the four years Mattingly has been at WSU, he has had four position coaches…

So far in his first year as the WSU men’s head basketball coach, Ken Bone has managed to stay undefeated. Not bad, but he has only been in Pullman for seven months and has yet to coach a regular season game. “It’s been great. It’s been enjoyable and great for my family…

WSU Athletics Director Jim Sterk held an open forum at Fireside Grille on Thursday to discuss the Martin Stadium Renovation Project. The event was the first of a series of forums Sterk will hold around Washington and Oregon. The forums are meant to gather input for Phase III of the project…