Up to 8 inches of snow
expected on the Palouse this afternoon, tonight
Jan
22, 2019 Moscow Pullman Daily News
The National Weather Service
has issued a winter weather advisory for much of the Palouse beginning at 2
p.m. this afternoon and ending at 4 a.m. Wednesday.
According to the NWS, 2 to
5 inches of snowfall and wind gusts of up to 35 mph are expected in the Pullman
area. In Moscow, the NWS is expecting 4 to 8 inches of snowfall.
The forecast for the
Palouse calls for 1 to 2 inches of snow this afternoon, with another 2 to 4
inches expected between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m.
Wednesday's weather
forecast calls for up to a quarter inch of rain and a 20 percent chance of snow
between 7 and 10 p.m.
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WSU FOOTBALL
Minshew’s magic 13: One
defining play from each of Gardner Minshew’s games as Washington State
quarterback
UPDATED: Mon., Jan. 21,
2019, 11:37 p.m.
By Theo Lawson
S-R of Spokane
Maybe it isn’t sufficient
to pick out a single highlight from each game Gardner Minshew played in a
Washington State uniform this season.
Some quarterbacks need four
years to manufacture the type of highlight reel or compile the type of
statistical résumé Minshew built in just 13 games as WSU’s starter. Granted,
the graduate transfer may have waited that long for his opportunity, but once
he got it, Minshew never wavered.
In one year, the Brandon,
Mississippi, native blossomed into a Heisman Trophy candidate, the Johnny
Unitas Golden Arm Award winner, the Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year and the
conference record-holder for single-season passing yards.
Now that the most
productive season by a Washington State quarterback is over, it’s time to look
back at some of its highlights. Here are 13 of them – one from each game he
played in – displaying a year’s worth of Minshew excellence.
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1. Washington State at
Wyoming
The play: 2-yard touchdown
to James Williams
The first of many. The
Minshew era at WSU was only about 12 minutes old when the new starter uncorked
his first touchdown. Two personal foul penalties on Wyoming gave the Cougars 30
yards and the running backs – Max Borghi and James Williams – ran for 17 and 18
yards to put the offense inside the 5-yard line. Minshew scooted out of the
pocket, then threw off his back foot to Williams, who made an acrobatic mid-air
catch before tapping his left tow inside the end zone to complete the play.
There were two more TD passes for Minshew that day in Laramie and 35 more
throughout the remainder of the season.
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2. San Jose State at
Washington State
The play: 1-yard touchdown
run
Zone read? In the Air Raid?
It isn’t the first option in Mike Leach’s playbook and it was a foreign concept
during the Luke Falk era at WSU. But Minshew called his own number in the
second quarter against San Jose State to put the Cougars up 24-0. Inches from
the goal line, the quarterback motioned a handoff to Borghi, then pulled the
ball back into his arms as five Spartans leapt at the freshman running back.
Minshew beat one more defender to the end zone for the second of four rushing
touchdowns he’d score on the year.
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3. Eastern Washington at
Washington State
The play: 26-yard pass to
Dezmon Patmon
The Cougars had essentially
put the Eagles away by the fourth quarter, and an intermediate throw to Patmon
wasn’t terribly important in the grand scheme of things. But the precision and
touch Minshew showed on a 26-yard toss was impressive. He looked off three
receiving options to his left with a pump-fake, then opened up his body and
went right to Patmon, who was streaking down the sideline, with a spiral only
the 6-foot-5 “Z” receiver could reach. Tightly covered, Patmon gripped the ball
out of the air and got four more yards before being tugged down.
♦ ♦ ♦
4. Washington State at USC
The play: 4-yard touchdown
pass to Easop Winston Jr.
He’d lament a few missed
opportunities in a 39-36 loss to the Trojans, but Minshew’s personal line was
still impressive: 37-of-52 passing, 344 yards, three touchdowns. The score had
already changed four times when Minshew worked some hocus pocus magic in the
pocket for his third TD of the game and second to Winston, which would give the
Cougars a 37-31 edge. With no options to his right, the QB scrambled left, made
one defender whiff then shuffled away from another before finessing a pass to
Winston in the back left corner of the end zone.
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5. Utah at Washington State
The play: 89-yard touchdown
pass to Winston
Winston hauled in 17 passes
from Minshew for 357 yards over a three-game stretch in late September/early
October – none of them more consequential than the 89-yard catch-and-run that
allowed the Cougars to beat the Utes 28-24 in a tense back-and-forth game at
Martin Stadium. Minshew’s offense lined up at the left hash, giving Winston
enough real estate to beat his cover, Utah corner Julian Blackmon, before he
reached the sideline. Minshew’s pass soared over the top of Blackmon and fell
into Winston’s hands. Corrion Ballard attempted to close down Winston’s lane,
but the receiver cut inside forcing the Utes safety to bite, then jolted back
to the sideline and legged out the game-winner.
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6. Washington State at
Oregon State
The play: 38-yard touchdown
pass to Tay Martin
Minshew had already
developed a connection with Washington State’s top returning receiver when fall
camp opened. On day one, he told reporters, “Throwing the ball to Tay Martin,
that’s pretty easy,” and it sure looked that way on a 119-yard, two-touchdown
day for the sophomore receiver in Corvallis. The highlight came early in the
second quarter when Minshew bombed a pass to Martin down the left sideline, who
made an impressive basket catch with OSU’s Kaleb Hayes draped over him. The
Cougars took a 21-14 lead and cruised to a 56-37 win.
♦ ♦ ♦
7. Oregon at Washington
State
The play: 37-yard pass to
Travell Harris
After trailing 27-0 in the
first half, the Ducks had tightened the gap to seven points with under seven
minutes to go in the fourth quarter when Minshew, always one to store faith in
his receivers, floated up a deep pass to Harris in double coverage. Oregon
safety Jevon Holland initially clamped the ball, but the shorter, smaller
Harris stripped it before somersaulting over Holland to the ground. Minshew
fired a touchdown pass to Patmon a few plays later to seal WSU’s fourth
straight win over Oregon. Students poured onto the turf and the “Mississippi
Mustache” was carried off as a hero.
♦ ♦ ♦
8. Washington State at
Stanford
The play: 35-yard pass to
Jamire Calvin
Deservedly, the game’s hero
was Blake Mazza, who was responsible for knocking in the game-winning 42-yard
field goal. But while Mazza delivered the decisive kick, it couldn’t have
happened without a decisive throw from Minshew. The Cougars had third-and-2
from their own 25-yard line when their QB spotted a small window and dialed up
a pass to Calvin on a seam route over the middle. With two Stanford defensive
backs in the area – one in front of Calvin and one behind him – an underthrown
or overthrown pass may have been picked off. Instead, WSU moved the chains with
a long completion and Mazza’s toe won the game a few plays later.
♦ ♦ ♦
9. California at Washington
State
The play: 10-yard touchdown
pass to Winston
If Minshew and Winston
hadn’t already cemented their status as the Pac-12’s best fourth-quarter QB-WR
duo, the senior signal-caller and his junior receiver did it with 32 seconds
left in the fourth quarter of a defensive stalemate against Cal. It was as
simple as pitch-and-catch gets – Winston broke past his defender and Minshew
dropped his pass into the bucket to give the Cougars the go-ahead touchdown.
♦ ♦ ♦
10. Arizona at Washington
State
The play: 9-yard touchdown
pass to Winston
Amid a season of dizzying
passing numbers, Minshew hit a new milestone when Arizona came to town for a
chilly mid-November game. The quarterback already had six passing touchdowns –
two to Calvin Jackson Jr., one to Patmon, one to Calvin, one to Martin and one
to Williams – when he unleashed his seventh midway through the fourth quarter.
Minshew bided his time in the pocket before lasering a pass to Winston on a
crossing pattern to set the school’s single-game TD record. Seventh heaven?
Indeed.
♦ ♦ ♦
11. Washington State at
Colorado
The play: 10-yard touchdown
run
The Buffaloes dropped eight
players into coverage on second-and-10 from the 9-yard line, so Minshew turned
to his instincts. And his moves. After sitting in the pocket briefly, the QB
broke away and scampered to his right. His first obstacle, Dante Wigley, bit on
a pump fake, giving Minshew the first down. Rick Gamboa was in position to make
the tackle, but the QB used a hesitation move to evade Colorado’s All-Pac-12
linebacker. Minshew couldn’t sneak his feet into the end zone, but he reached
the ball in to make it 24-7.
♦ ♦ ♦
12. Washington at
Washington State
The play: 7-yard pass to
Calvin Jackson Jr.
There weren’t many
offensive highlights for WSU in a sixth consecutive Apple Cup loss and there
were even fewer for Minshew, who passed for just 152 yards. There were no
touchdowns for him in this one, but Minshew did his part to set one up in the
second quarter. On fourth-and-4, his blockers held off UW’s three-man rush long
enough, allowing Minshew to shuffle away from the pocket and rifle a pass
through the snow to Jackson on a short drag over the middle. The play moved the
sticks and Williams pranced into the end zone four plays later to cut the
deficit to 14-7.
♦ ♦ ♦
13. Washington State vs.
Iowa State
The play: 7-yard touchdown
run
And for the closing act?
Four Iowa State defenders were charging at Minshew when he made the escape of
the season to give the Cougars a two-touchdown buffer in the Alamo Bowl. On
second-and-goal, Minshew scanned the right side of the field to see all three
receivers covered. Another Cyclones defender took away his checkdown option, so
the QB stepped forward into the pocket, spun out of a tackle and slipped back
out before darting to the end zone. Minshew jumped to avoid Anthony Johnson’s
shoestring tackle, landed on his left foot and tucked the ball as he dove
across the goal line.
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WSU medical school in
Spokane looking to expand
New school will request
$14.4 million from state to bring in more students
By CODY SCHOELER, Evergreen
(with a slight edit. See story without edit at dailyevergreen.com)
January 22, 2019
WSU will continue its
tradition as a land grant institution with the expansion of the medical school.
The Elson S. Floyd College
of Medicine located in Spokane was established in 2015 and accepted its first
class of 60 students in 2017, said Chris Mulick, WSU director of State
Relations.
“In 2017 we asked for, and
got funding for, 60 first year and 60 second year medical students,” Mulick
said. “This time we’re coming and saying ‘now you need to fund the third and fourth
year for 60 medical students so that way we’ve got four years of funding for 60
students across the board.”
In this year’s legislative
session, the WSU medical school will request funding from Washington state
representatives. The total amount they are asking for the expansion is $14.4
million, he said. $10.8 million of that is for the continuation of the 60
students; the rest will look to increase the class size from 60 to 80 students.
Colleen Kerr, vice
president of WSU office of external affairs and government relations, said the
goal has always been to have a maximum of 80 students in the medical school.
“If we can get to 80
students,” Mulick said, “it is our plan to stop and take a breath and survey
the landscape.”
Kerr said they wanted to create
the medical school to meet their mission around research and education as well
as address the issue of access to health care across the state.
“We have a really strong
network all over the state and the access to health care issue was really
becoming pronounced,” she said. “I remember the Colville Nation declared access
to health care a state of emergency. We had an alum and a woman who is very
closely affiliated with WSU who had to wait two years to see an
endocrinologist.”
They knew when they started
the school they would have to work collaboratively with the medical school at
University of Washington, Kerr said.
“We knew that if the state
was putting public dollars into the University of Washington, if they were
going to do more public dollars then it needed to compliment what was already
happening,” she said.
The school has been very
successful so far, Kerr said.
“I think that we’re doing
this in a record time, I don’t think that any institution has done it as
quickly as we have, and we’re not just squeaking by we’re doing it
successfully,” she said.
One of the reasons for the
success has been the support that the community in Spokane has provided, Kerr
said.
“I have worked with the
Spokane community for the past decade in this job and in previous jobs. They
are so singularly able to come together around community priorities and they
recognize that there was both an access to health care problems and they had
the building blocks to step into that space.”
Seeing the nearly decade
long process of creating a WSU medical school come to fruition is rewarding for
the people who have played an important role in making it happen, she said.
“For those of us internally
like myself, I remember going to the white coat ceremony for that first class,
which is when they get their white coats and they’re going to be medical
students,” Kerr said. “I’m not a crier and I was weeping. I was like ‘oh my gosh
this is going to change the face of the state.”
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WSU supports Governor’s
proposed construction budget
From Pullman Radio News
1/22/2019
Washington Governor Jay
Inslee’s proposed construction budget includes Washington State University’s
top priorities. WSU officials recently
testified in favor of the governor’s capital budget in both the house and
senate in Olympia.
The governor’s plan
contains full funding for WSU’s top construction funding request for the
Pullman campus. The institution wants 36.4 million dollars to complete
construction of the Global Animal Health Phase II Project. That building is slated to be the new home of
the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Lab.
The governor’s capital budget request also includes funding for high
priority WSU projects for the Tri-Cities, Vancouver and Spokane campuses.
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Speakers commemorate Martin
Luther King Jr. on campus in Pullman
By KURIA POUNDS, Evergreen \
January 21, 2019
The 32nd annual Martin
Luther King Jr. Community Celebration featured Ibram X. Kendi and a campus
civic poet honoree on Jan. 17 at the CUB Senior Ballroom.
Kendi, the keynote speaker,
said there is a difference between racial progress and racist progress.
“The only thing wrong with
black people is that they think something is wrong with black people,” he said.
Kendi also referred to
Malcolm X during his speech.
“Fools try to ignore facts,
but wise men must face facts to remain wise,” he said. “Fools refuse to change
from their silly ways and beliefs, but the mental flexibility of the wise man
permits him to keep an opened mind.”
Veronica Sandoval, the
campus civic poet honoree, is a doctoral candidate at WSU’s School of
Languages, Cultures and Race, said Donna Potts, WSU’s English department chair.
Potts said Sandoval is a
spoken-word artist from Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Sandoval’s poetry appeared in
online publications and in several anthologies.
Sandoval said she wrote a
poem last year during the summer to protest against the Texas Board of
Education, who attempted to change the name of a newly-formed standardized
Mexican-American high school history course.
“Institutional powers fear
communities that refuse to appease the status quo,” she said in her poem.
“Institutional powers fear communities who resist.”
God’s Harmony Gospel Choir
ended the event by singing the Black National Anthem.
The choir also sang another
song about the struggle of African-Americans who continue to fight for racial
equality.
Krimson Kouture dedicated
their dance to the remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr.
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WSU spirit squads makes
finals for second year in a row
Crimson Girls place fifth,
marking best finish in program history
WSU Cheer and the Crimson
Girls competed at nationals for the sixth-straight year at ESPN’s Wide World of
Sports in Orlando, Florida
By JOHN SPELLMAN, Evergreen
January 22, 2019
The WSU Spirit and Cheer
Squads made history this past weekend as they both made it to the finals for
the second consecutive year at the Universal Cheerleaders Association (UCA) and
Universal Dancers Association (UDA) College Cheerleading and Dance Team National
Championships.
“This weekend the WSU
Spirit Squad made history, with both the cheer and dance teams advancing to
finals,” WSU Spirit Coordinator and Head Cheer Coach, Jordan Benedict said.
“This is the first time this has happened in back-to-back years.”
The Crimson Girls had the
best finish in program history, finishing fifth nationally in the Division 1A
Jazz finals. This marks an improvement from last year’s impressive
twelfth-place finish.
“Division 1A Jazz is the
most competitive dance category at UDA Nationals,” Benedict said. “Every team
is talented, unique and fierce, so to be placed in the top five amongst the
greatest teams in the nation says so much about this team and how hard they
have pushed all season long.”
The Cougars found success
in both the dance and cheer divisions in the Game Day category, its inaugural
year as a category of competition.
The Crimson Girls were
extremely successful in the Game Day dance category, finishing third in the
nation, only behind UNLV and Tennessee.
On the cheering side, WSU
Cheer was a part of the Division 1A Coed category, where they also advanced to
the finals before finishing fifteenth overall on the final day.
The cheer team also
competed in the Cheer Division 1A Game Day category where they were able to
pull out an impressive sixth place finish, making them the highest-ranked team
from the Pac-12 in their division.
“I am so thrilled that this
team was able to overcome so much adversity and prove that WSU Cheer is a
finals team and national contender, especially with cheer competing in the most
difficult division in the competition,” Benedict said.
Both teams now look to get
back to Pullman and cheer on the Cougars as the cheer and dance teams prepare
for another successful season next year.
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