As the Pac-10 basketball season mercifully winds to a close with the Cougars securely in last place, those new to WSU may just now be realizing just how difficult it can be to be a Cougar fan. Since adopting the Cougars as my favorite team at the tender age of 5…

As the men’s basketball Pac-10 regular season winds to a close, one daunting question sits restlessly on the minds of college basketball aficionados everywhere. Who is truly the best “Nikola” in the Pac-10? For those not closely following this year’s Pac-10 conference…

It seemed Bode Miller’s critics would always be there to detract attention from his unprecedented accomplishments. Despite missing a gate and not finishing in Tuesday’s Men’s Giant Slalom, the controversial American alpine skier has put an exclamation point on his career with a historic performance at the 2010 Winter Olympics…

Former WSU Athletic Director Jim Sterk sent shockwaves through campus Monday when he announced he would be leaving Pullman to serve as athletic director for the San Diego State Aztecs. Sterk, who successively oversaw a resurgence in WSU athletic programs…

Dear NCAA Tournament Selection Committee, Surely by now, your East Coast-biased members have totally ruled out the possibility of putting more than one Pac-10 team in your annual 64-team battle royale coming up in a month or so. The conference is weaker than in recent years…

Difficult as it is to fathom, spring practices are just a little more than a month away for the 2010 WSU Cougar football team. Expectations are high heading into Head Coach Paul Wulff’s third season at the helm as the Cougars return some young talent on both sides of the ball…

New York Jets Head Coach Rex Ryan adamantly declared in his introductory press conference this summer, “”I’m not here to kiss Bill Belichick’s rings!” Ryan, a longtime defensive coordinator, thrived in his first season as head coach of the New York Jets…

If anyone happened to peruse any news source during the break, they surely came across the juicy, ever-developing details of Tiger Woods’ multiple “transgressions” against his Swedish bombshell wife, Elin Nordegren. While the suspicious, one-car accident that eventually revealed Woods’ cheating ways took place shortly after Thanksgiving…

When analyzing WSU’s fall sports season, it would be easy to look at the rebuilding football team’s record and proclaim the whole season as a debacle. However, this understandable thought process doesn’t reflect the fact that the Cougars experienced unprecedented success in women’s volleyball…

Since many fans can remember, WSU football has been lauded for its ability to recruit and develop NFL-caliber quarterbacks. Pac-10 legends like Jack Thompson, Mark Rypien, Timm Rosenbach, Drew Bledsoe, Ryan Leaf and Jason Gesser put up fantastic numbers while in Pullman…

As Thanksgiving break approaches, the city of Pontiac, Mich., showed they were in a festive mood Monday after announcing their sale of the $55.7 million Pontiac Silverdome. The former home of the abysmal Detroit Lions is situated neatly in a Detroit suburb and was auctioned off to a private group of Canadian real estate entrepreneurs for a shockingly low $583…

After a second consecutive abysmal Cougar football season, the faith Cougar fans initially had in Head Coach Paul Wulff’s ability to lead has begun to waver. Patience many had for the unproven Cougar head coach to turn the football program around was on the verge of expiration as the Cougars were thumped 30-0 by the Washington Huskies two weeks ago…

It was evident to the nearly 4,000 fans in attendance at Friel Court Monday that Cougar guards freshman Reggie Moore and sophomore Michael Harthun are ready to make an impact this season. While Moore and Harthun have gone relatively unnoticed in college basketball season previews…

Seeing Alex Rodriguez drive in the go-ahead run in Game 4 of the World Series off erratic Philadelphia closer Brad Lidge Sunday night was downright painful for anyone not dressed in Yankee blue. A-Rod’s screaming double down the left field line solidified his position as the best player of his generation and erased any final doubts that Rodriguez can’t produce in the playoffs…

Heading into the 2009-10 season, there is no guarantee the WSU men’s basketball team will be able to duplicate the unprecedented success of the past three seasons. However, it is clear after watching Friday night’s Midnight Mayhem that this Cougar team should be way more fun to watch…