Washington State releases practice
dates, times for fall camp
Mon., July 23, 2018, 6:46 p.m.
Spokesman-Review
By Theo Lawson
PULLMAN – Mike Leach and the Washington
State Cougars will adhere to a similar routine as they begin fall practice next
week.
The 2018 Cougars will open with one
practice at Martin Stadium/Rogers Field in Pullman, set for 2 p.m. on Aug. 3,
before moving to Lewiston for a week of practices at Sacajawea Junior High in
Lewiston.
WSU is scheduled to practice in Lewiston
every day from Aug. 4-9 – all workouts beginning at 2 p.m. The team will then
return to Pullman for its first scrimmage on Aug. 10. The first day of practice
in Pullman, and all practices in Lewiston, will be open to the public.
The team will wear only helmets for the
first two days of camp, then layer on shoulder pads on day three. The Cougars’
first day of full-pads practice will be on Aug. 7 in Lewiston.
WSU opens the 2018 season at Wyoming at
12:30 p.m. PT on Sept. 1 in a game that will be televised on the CBS Sports
Network.
The Cougars’ complete practice schedule
for the month of the August is as such:
Aug. 3 (2 p.m., Pullman), Aug. 4 (2
p.m., Lewiston), Aug. 5 (2 p.m., Lewiston), Aug. 6 (2 p.m., Lewiston), Aug. 7
(2 p.m., Lewiston), Aug. 8 (2 p.m., Lewiston), Aug. 9 (2 p.m., Lewiston), Aug.
10 (TBA, Pullman), Aug. 12 (3:30 p.m., Pullman), Aug. 14 (3:30 p.m., Pullman),
Aug. 15 (3:30 p.m., Pullman), Aug. 16 (3:30 p.m., Pullman), Aug. 17 (3:30 p.m.,
Pullman), Aug. 18 (TBA, Pullman), Aug. 19 (8 p.m., Pullman), Aug. 21 (3:30,
Pullman), Aug. 22 (3:30 p.m., Pullman), Aug. 23 (3:30 p.m., Pullman), Aug. 24
(4 p.m., Pullman), Aug. 25 (TBA, Pullman), Aug. 26 (8 p.m., Pullman), Aug, 28
(3:30 p.m., Pullman), Aug. 29 (3:30 p.m., Pullman), Aug. 30 (3:30 p.m.,
Pullman)
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Glenn Osterhout Commentary: The ascent
in WSU fundraising has begun
By GLENN OSTERHOUT Cougfan.com
DRIVEN BY THE dramatic change in the
competitive landscape of college athletics, a new era is underway at Washington
State that is laser-focused on fundraising. WSU Athletic Director Pat Chun,
with full support from President Kirk Schulz, already has built a solid
fundraising plan and he and his team have been traveling the country in recent
months engaging donors at every level. In just a short period of time, we have
already seen an improvement in our numbers, marking the beginning of the ascent
to our rightful place in the Pac-12 Conference.
WSU today reported that donations to the
Cougar Athletic Fund, which underwrites scholarships for student-athletes,
increased by more than 18 percent, or $1.31 million, in the fiscal year that ended June 30. That's a
record. Here's a look at how the progress stacks up going back three years ...
Total donations to the CAF:
2016:
$5.80 million
2017:
$6.45 million
2018:
$7.76 million
Champions Circle members (annual giving
of $25,000+)
2016: 8
2017: 15
2018: 23
Leadership Circle members (annual giving
of $10,000 to $24,999)
2016:
61
2017:
105
2018:
120
In addition, revenue from ticket sales
is tracking approximately $600,000 ahead of last year at this point. Now is the
time to purchase single-game tickets for football and season tickets for
basketball.
AS YOU CAN SEE, WE CLEARLY HAVE
momentum. WSU alumni and friends are starting to understand that we must
dramatically increase revenue for WSU athletics. The year-over-year improvement
in the CAF is a good start, but we have a long way to go when you consider WSU
athletics spends $12 million per year on scholarships and the number is
climbing. That means the CAF, which is devoted exclusively to scholarships, was
$4.24 million shy of filling the need despite the record year of fundraising.
Given the size and wealth of our alumni
base, CAF support realistically should be about $15 million annually. And in
terms of ticket sales, $10 million annually from all sports -- vs. the $6
million-plus currently -- is not unreasonable and can be reached in four years
with low-double-digit annual percentage gains.
To put these numbers into context, look
no further than the University of Washington.
Annual donations to athletics at the UW are about $23 million. WSU's
undergraduate enrollment is roughly 60 percent the size of the Washington's so
one can assume that WSU's donations levels should be 60 percent of the theirs
-- or $13.8 million as opposed to our current level of $7.76 million. Given the loyalty and passion that we all
share for WSU, our annual donations should be even higher than UW's on a
relative basis. I should also mention
that even though we are starting to close the gap, as I detailed in this recent
column, we trail Oregon State by a substantial amount in both annual donations
and season ticket sales.
Over the years I've heard many
explanations from fans why our donation levels are not where they should be.
One of the chief among them is that football season tickets are tied to CAF
donations and because WSU is in a remote location, there's not enough ticket
demand -- and therefore, not the accompanying donations. I also hear people say
"I will start donating when we start winning." Quite frankly, if we
are passionate and loyal to WSU, none of these reasons hold water. The remote
location is what creates the loyalty and passion we all share for WSU. As such,
even if you don’t attend games you can still donate to the program (in fact,
this is critical for our success). As for winning, the Cougars have 26
victories over the last three football seasons -- the third-most in the Pac-12.
I should also point out that WSU has
made donating much easier and you can literally donate from anywhere in the
world in less than five minutes. And here's another important point: a massive
number of our alumni and friends live and work in Greater Seattle, which is one
of the strongest economies in the country. We need to capitalize on that fact.
WSU partisans in this region alone have the capacity to close the revenue gap
in athletics; the economy here is a competitive advantage for WSU that schools
in Oregon, Arizona, Utah and Colorado don't have.
For those of you who are donating to
athletics, thank you and please consider stretching your donation by clicking
here. To join the Cougar Athletic Fund, click here. If you have questions
regarding gifts to WSU Athletics, please reach out to the talented development
team, all of whom can be found here.
Season ticket holders and members of the
CAF can order single-game tickets now and can click here to order. If you have
question regarding football tickets, contact Casey Van Sickle at
casey.vansickle@wsu.edu or 509-315-8465.
I challenge all WSU alumni and friends
to support the ascent to our rightful place in the Pac-12 Conference!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Glenn Osterhout, a
1982 WSU graduate, is a director on the WSU Foundation Board and chairman of
CougsFirst!. He has donated large sums to WSU athletics to, among other things,
name the recruiting suite in the Cougar Football Complex after Steve Gleason
and the Gray W Lounge in the Complex after Jack Thompson. He is a periodic
columnist for Cougfan.com.
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WSU POLICE FACEBOOK PAGE POSTING:
“We are saddened by the line-of-duty
death of former Cougar and Kent Police Officer Diego Moreno. Our heartfelt
sympathies go out to his family, friends, and Kent PD. He will always be a
Coug.”
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Police ID officer killed in car chase in
Washington state
UPDATED: Mon., July 23, 2018, 8:36 a.m.
By Mike Carter Seattle Times
A Kent police officer was killed when he
was struck by another officer during a chase early Sunday, police and the
Washington State Patrol said.
Police and media reports said a
preliminary investigation showed the officer was killed when he was struck by
another Kent police officer chasing a pickup truck. The officer who was struck
had apparently been deploying a strip of spikes across the roadway, intending
to flatten the fleeing pickup truck’s tires. After the collision, the driver of
the patrol vehicle that struck the officer went on to crash into three cars
parked at a nearby in intersection and was seriously injured, said Kent Police
Cmdr. Jarod Kasner in a news release.
“An officer deploying a spike strip for
the pursuit was struck and killed, it appears at this point, by a pursuing
officer,” said Washington State Patrol District Commander Ron Mead during a
news conference Sunday.
Late Sunday, the department identified
the dead officer as Diego Moreno, a decorated eight-year veteran with the
department who was from Venezuela.
We are deeply saddened by the loss of
Officer Diego Moreno. He was part of our family and we will always have him in
our hearts. Please continue to keep Officer Moreno, his family, friends, and
colleagues in your thoughts and prayers.
A woman who identified herself as
Moreno’s widow, Shelly K. Moreno, posted a photo of the two of them and wrote:
“It is with the sorrow of a million heartbreaks that I announce the death of my
beautiful husband Diego,” she wrote. “He was killed in the line of duty last
night. Thank you to everyone who has been and will be at our side.”
Moreno worked for Kent Police Department
for eight years, according to a department’s Facebook post.
During that time, he worked as part of
the civil disturbance unit, was a hostage negotiator and a defensive tactics
instructor, according to a video on the Kent Police Department’s website.
In 2016, he received the Chief’s Award
for Exceptional Duty after saving an elderly woman from a fire, according to
the police department.
In June 2017, he received a Lifesaving
Medal from the Kent City Council for saving someone from an opioid overdose,
using Naloxone.
“At times I felt like I didn’t deserve
them because I was just doing my job like anybody else,” Moreno said of the
awards in the department’s video.
Shelly Moreno said services will be held
at ShoWare Center July 31st.
Kent Police Cmdr. Jarod Kasner, his
voice cracking at a televised news conference outside the police station, said
officers had responded about 1:50 a.m. to a report of shots fired near Russell
Road South and West Meeker Street, near a Shari’s restaurant. At the time the
911 call came in, a Kent police officer was also in the area and heard the
gunfire. The officer witnessed a red pickup truck fleeing a parking lot as the
witness described the suspect vehicle to dispatchers, he said.
Kasner said officers were in pursuit and
that spike strips were deployed near Reith Road and Kent-Des Moines Road
(Highway 516).
“One Kent Officer was struck and the
pursuing officer was involved in a collision,” Kasner said in a news release.
The suspect vehicle, at least one tire
flattened, continued east on Kent-Des Moines Road until it crashed and rolled
onto its roof near Washington Avenue, he said. One person was arrested.
“It is directly because of this suspect
or suspects’ actions that led to this officer’s death,” Mead said at the news
conference. “While that vehicle may not have been the one that struck the
officer, make no doubt about it that had it not been for their actions this
officer would be alive right now.”
The officer who was struck by the
vehicle died at the scene. The second officer was transported to Harborview
Medical Center and is in satisfactory condition, Harborview spokeswoman Susan
Gregg said.
Washington State Patrol is assisting
with the accident investigation, while the Valley Investigation Team is
conducting the criminal investigation, Kasner said. He said Highway 516 would
be closed for several hours.
“This is a very sad day for law enforcement,”
Mead told reporters. “Our hearts go out to the Kent Police Department.”
Detectives had marked off a number of
shell casings located in the parking lot of the Shari’s restaurant. Kasner said
anyone with information regarding the initial illegal firearm discharge or the
accident to call the Kent Police Department tip line at (253) 856-5808.
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WSU POLICE FACEBOOK PAGE POSTING:
“Due to a sharp increase in 911 calls,
we would like to inform everyone that Whitman, Latah and Asotin Counties are
experiencing significant smoke due to surrounding wildfires in The Dalles, OR,
Spokane, WA and Garfield County. While we are experiencing smoke from these
fires, our counties are in no danger of them. IF this changes, advisories will
be sent out. While waking up to poor air quality can be unsettling, please
refrain from calling 911 to report/inquire about the smoke as emergency
situation can be delayed due to a flood of calls about smoke….”
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PULLMAN
Brief: Pullman Police officers to read
at library
Moscow Pullman Daily News
Children and families are invited to
join the Pullman Police Department at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Neill Public
Library as officers read some of their favorite books and share information
about fire safety.
The 45-minute reading will be in the
library's Heritage Addition, and pre-registration is not required for the
program.
The reading is part of the library's
Summer Reading events.
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Football can look toward rugby for
safety
Sport has a dangerous dependence on
padding which results in more head-to-head collisions
WSU men’s rugby club faces off against
St. Andrews University in a scrum. Players often go with minimal or without
head protection.
By HANAH GOETZ, Evergreen opinion editor
July 19, 2018
The condition of football players has
been under contention for years, but not in terms of physical fitness. Instead,
the problem lies with the abundance of concussions and the long-term effects
that come with them.
In 2016 alone, concussion injuries
increased by 58 percent, according to ESPN.com. This year the NFL is once again
changing the way they approach this diagnosis, including increased medical
staff on the field during games to identify injuries as they occur. Despite
this, many players have been known to return to play despite concussion
protocol and teams have been fined for failing to bench the player at risk.
Even with these changes, we still see
issues that affect the players long-term. Tyler Hilinski was the latest victim
when an autopsy revealed he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy¸ a
degenerative brain disease, at his death.
Though it is a factor, the problem I see
isn’t so much in the level of care but in how the sport itself is played.
This is where we should turn to the
sport across the pond known for its own breed of contact sport — rugby.
Amber Stotts, a member of the WSU
women’s rugby club team, said that football is known for its dependence on
padding.
“You see people leading with their heads
a lot more and also a lot more grabbing than actually blocking,” Stotts said.
“In rugby, there isn’t that dependence because all we have is a mouth guard,
sometimes a scrum cap for some head protection and occasionally you’ll meet
someone with joint issues that will use like a shock shirt or padded
compression shorts, but those aren’t common.”
Stotts said that the difference is not
only in the padding, but also in the way the football players tackle.
“There is a different style of tackle
used in football, where it tends to be in a higher body position and trying to
stop their forward motion, she said. “While in rugby it’s using the opponent’s
momentum to carry them down. It’s a lot like the motion of a take-down in
wrestling.”
Stotts said she has had only one
concussion in her seven years of play.
“Concussions are very serious deals in
every sport but especially in [rugby] where there isn’t head protection,” she
said. “Coaches are trained to be aware of concussions symptoms and players
generally have to be checked by a medical professional and be cleared for
return.”
Rugby tackling has been noticed. Boise
State University hired three former rugby coaches to help their players perfect
the safety of their tackling technique.
While it’s true we can’t count rugby as
the safest game on the planet, where spinal injuries from scrums and untrained
players cause problems statistically, we can still look to it to modify
football to where our players can be much safer.
We don’t have to imitate rugby completely,
but we can afford to learn from it.
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