Red Flag Warning for high wildfire danger issued for North Idaho and SE Washington
From Pullman Radio
News
A Red Flag Warning for high wildfire danger has been issued for
North Idaho and Southeast Washington. The National Weather Service is calling
for isolated thunderstorms with dry lightning this afternoon and tonight.
Gusts with these storms could reach 40 MPH. The Red Flag Warning includes Latah
County. The warning runs until 11:00 tonight.
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Don't forget your free chili - the National Lentil Festival
begins today
Aug 17, 2018 Moscow Pullman Daily News
The 30th annual National Lentil Festival begins today.
The first cups of free lentil chili from the World's Largest
Bowl of Lentil Chili will be served at 5 p.m. just off Spring Street near the
Skate Park. The beer and wine garden, marketplace and food vendors also open
for business at 5 p.m.
Here’s a complete list of the weekend festivities:
==FRIDAY:
5:30 p.m. -- Redwood Son will perform live on the Main Stage
6:30 p.m. -- “Ask the Experts” panel discussion with Pacific
Northwest Farmers Cooperative and The Moscow Food Co-op at the Gazebo Stage in
Reaney Park
6:35 p.m. -- Brewer’s Grade Band will perform live on the Main
Stage
7:55 p.m. -- Dimestore Prophets perform live on the Main Stage
8 p.m. -- Andru Gomez will perform live at the Gazebo Stage in
Reaney Park
9:15 p.m. -- Headliner The Brevet will perform live on the Main
Stage
11 p.m. - Festival closes
==SATURDAY:
7:30 a.m. -- Tase T. Lentil 5K Fun Run & Walk beginning at
the Pufferbelly Depot Parking Lot
8 a.m. -- Pullman Lion’s Club Lentil Pancake Breakfast at Cougar
Plaza
9 a.m. -- Co-ed Softball Tournament at the City Playfields
Tase T. Lentil Mini Golf Tournament at the Airways Hills Golf
Center
3-on-3 Hoop Classic at Reaney Park
10 a.m. -- Walk of Fame Ceremony outside Sam Dial Jewelers on
Main Street
11 a.m. -- Grand Parade beginning at the intersection of Grand
Avenue and Main Street
Noon -- Live Cooking Demo with Chef Jamie Callison at the Gazebo
Stage in Reaney Park
12:50 p.m. - Cody Beebe and the Crooks perform live on the Main
Stage
1 p.m. -- Live Cooking Demo with Chef Patty Brehm on the Gazebo
Stage in Reaney Park
Lil’ Lentil Royalty Coronation at the Lentil Land Kid’s Stage
1:50 -- p.m. Austin Jenckes performs live on the Main Stage
2 p.m. -- Live Cooking Demo with Chef Gretchen Stoops-Luongo on
the Gazebo Stage in Reaney Park
3 p.m. -- Legendary Lentil Cook-Off on the Gazebo Stage in
Reaney Park
3:30 p.m. -- The Cadillac Three will perform live on the Main
Stage
5 p.m. -- Festival ends
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WSU Cougars have Steve Spurrier (Jr., that is) as new assistant
coach
Originally published August 17, 2018 at 11:00 am Updated August
17, 2018 at 11:28 am
Steve Spurrier Jr. brings a well-known name and a lot of
coaching experience to his new job as WSU's outside receivers coach. He
reunites with coach Mike Leach as the two coached together in 1999.
By Scott Hanson Seattle Times
PULLMAN — So, what is it like growing up as the son of Steve
Spurrier?
“I don’t know. What was it like growing up with your father?”
said Steve Spurrier Jr., Washington State’s new outside receivers coach. “It
was pretty cool. Got to watch ball, be a ball boy, be in the locker room. It
was kind of neat, but I didn’t know any different.”
And if Spurrier wasn’t the biggest coaching hire made by the
Cougars in the offseason, he was certainly the one with the most recognizable
name.
Father Steve, of course, is “The Head Ball Coach,” who won the
Heisman Trophy as a quarterback for Florida in 1966 and later turned that
program into a national power as its coach.
Steve Sr. also coached in the NFL with Washington (2002-03)
before going back to college, coaching for 11 seasons at South Carolina
(2005-15). One of his top assistants during his 11 years with the Gamecocks was
Steve Jr., who became co-offensive coordinator in 2012.
“Thank you,” said Steve Jr., who also coached under his dad in
the NFL. “He’s a pretty handsome guy, isn’t he?”
Steve Jr. walked on as a receiver at Duke, and eventually earned
a scholarship, “playing quite a bit his last two years” in 1992-93.
“I had 24 receptions for
299 stinking yards and one touchdown,” he said. “You would have thought I could
have found that last yard. I had two receptions that we had penalties on and
that would have gotten me over 300. That still bugs me.”
But alas, coaching and not playing would be his future, and like
most young assistants, he moved around a bit as better jobs developed. In 1999,
when Spurrier was receivers coach with Oklahoma, he worked under current
Washington State coach Mike Leach, who had been hired as the Sooners’ offensive
coordinator.
Leach left Oklahoma after one season, but he and Spurrier kept
in touch.
“I kept in contact with
him ever since,” Spurrier said. “He’s been one person I can call. I talked to
him three or four times a year, but if I ever called him, he answered the
phone.”
Spurrier Jr. left South Carolina after the 2015 season when his
dad quit, then worked for a season with Oklahoma before being the quarterbacks
coach and assistant head coach for Western Kentucky last season.
When head coach Mike Sanford took over coaching the quarterbacks
this season, something Spurrier endorsed, it gave Spurrier a chance to reunite
with Leach.
“I think this was the best opportunity for me,” Spurrier said.
“It gives me another opportunity to learn from a guy who has been awfully
successful, and it gives me another offense to be more knowledgeable about.”
The only downside is not being with his family. After moving the
previous couple of years, Spurrier’s wife, Melissa, and their seven children
stayed in Bowling Green. There are triplets and and twins among the seven kids.
“I’ve got a good wife, a really good wife,” Spurrier said.
“She’s a pediatric nurse (who got her doctorate degree at South Carolina). She
could raise 15 of them.”
The youngest is a “precious” 2-year-old daughter. Spurrier
joked, though, about what could have been.
“We could have hit for the cycle — 1, 2, 3, 4,” he said. “Now
wouldn’t that have been something. It’s never been done before. I probably
would have gotten my own TV show.”
The triplets, the oldest, are seniors at South Warren High
School in Bowling Green, Ky. Gavin is a successful quarterback on the football
team, and is considering trying to walk on at Duke, just as his father did.
Luke is a star track athlete, specializing in the 800- and 1600-meter
runs, and Emmaline is a cheerleader. All three are excellent students.
Being away from the family will be tough for Spurrier.
“It will be hard but FaceTime is kind of neat,” he said. “I talk to my kids all the time and they can put
me up at the dinner table, so it is a little bit easier than it used to be.”
Spurrier also speaks with his father at least once a week, and
he was “fired up” that his son landed at Washington State.
Spurrier Jr. likes being in Pullman, but he said the thing that
will determine how his experience is will be how the team does.
“Coaching is all relative to winning games,” said Spurrier, who
aspires to become a head coach or offensive coordinator. “Your lifestyle and
how you live, and your happiness and pain, is based on winning and losing. But
I am an optimist on everything I do.”
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Cougars coach Mike Leach makes case for joint practices
Originally published August 16, 2018 at 7:42 pm Updated August
16, 2018 at 7:43 pm
The practice has become popular in the NFL.
By Theo Lawson Spokane Spokesman-Review
PULLMAN – Joint training camps have become popular,
highly-anticipated dates on the NFL’s preseason calendar. Mike Leach thinks
something similar could also spice up the college game.
The Washington State coach has advocated for mixed practices
between college programs within the same geographical footprint – perhaps
scrimmages and exhibition games, too — and made his case again Wednesday
afternoon following the Cougars’ 11th preseason practice in Pullman.
Leach thinks it would be one way to break up the monotony of
fall camp, which pits offensive and defensive teammates against each other for
an entire month before they’re able to whack somebody in a different-colored
jersey.
“It’d be awesome,” Leach said. “You get one of the other
universities up the road and have a mixed practice, I think that’d be a great
deal. I don’t even know a scrimmage or even an preason game, too — that’d be
fine, but just mix it up as far as one-on-one versus them, (skeleton) versus
them, team (period) versus them. Just variety and I think the variety would be
good for both teams.”
The Cougars are holding 24 practices throughout August before
they open the season on Sept. 1 against Wyoming. Often by week two or three,
players become restless hitting and blocking their own kind.
In recent years, NFL teams have enlivened their preseason
routine by practicing against one another for weeks at a time.
The Detroit Lions are hosting the New York Giants, the Denver
Broncos and Chicago Bears are mixing it up in Colorado, while the Baltimore
Ravens and Los Angeles Rams recently spent a few days together at the Ravens’
facility.
Opponents of Leach’s idea might point to injuries that may be
sustained or fights that may break out in what undoubtedly would be a
higher-intensity practice environment.
But Leach contends the enthusiasm would only be a positive and
players could learn a thing or two from seeing different schemes and playing
styles.
“Part of it is just the
energy,” Leach said. “You get excited about, plus you learn something from the
other guy.
“If you defend another
guy or a different guy, he’s got some qualities that are different, that are
better. Some defender on you, he does some good things. You learn as you go.”
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Jalen Thompson says WSU has lots of talent on both sides of ball
By BRIAN STULTZ Cougfan.com
PULLMAN – Washington State quarterback Gardner Minshew has been
up-and-down in the last two practices, but he is confident that he getting more
comfortable with coach Mike Leach’s high-octane offense. Generally considered
the leader for the starting job with 12 days of practice complete, Minshew
credits the number of snaps he has gotten and the people around him as he navigates
the process.
"The more reps you can get, the better it is," Minshew
said. "The coaches have done a great job helping me, the other guys on the
team, the quarterbacks. The wide receivers have done a good job getting me on
the right page."
With the second fall camp scrimmage on tap Saturday and just a
little over two weeks before the season opener at Wyoming, Minshew has taken a
definitive leadership role, but he insisted that he isn't the only one stepping
up.
"We have a lot of great leaders on our team," Minshew
said. "I think everyone is pointing us in the right direction."
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