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Assistant Sports Editor
Adam Thaler
253-597-8512
athaler@theolympian.com
Sports Reporter
Meg Wochnick
360-754-5473
mwochnick@theolympian.com
SEATTLE – They have been courted, hired and announced via press release. They have recruited and helped sign their first class as a coaching staff. They have crossed paths a few times on the road and on campus, and finally sat down for their first full staff meeting a week ago.
For the second time in Lorenzo Romar’s tenure as coach of the Washington Huskies, his basketball team has a 9-2 record in conference play.
SEATTLE – For three games, Shawn Kemp Jr. sat on the bench and mostly watched. He sat the entire game against Stanford, played four minutes at Arizona State and then sat the entire game at Arizona.
Seattle – Terrence Ross can’t really explain why he owns the second half of basketball games.
The UCLA Bruins came into the 2011-12 basketball season with high expectations – some their own, some placed on them by others.
SEATTLE – On one of the biggest days in the college football calendar, when the hours and hours of phone calls, visits and text messages come to an end, University of Washington coach Steve Sarkisian admitted he could have used a nap.
Did Shaq save the Washington Huskies’ recruiting class?
C.J. Wilcox is living the recreational hoop player’s life – no practices, just games.
It had to come down the game’s final moment – that’s what these two teams do when they square off.
TUCSON, Ariz. – This is what Tony Wroten dreamed of when he thought about playing college basketball – a sold out arena, electric atmosphere and ESPN Gameday there to hype it up.