Story (link below) about Pullman’s COUGAR COUNTRY is a few
years old, but it’s still interesting!
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Army Corps reopens Granite Point after cleanup efforts
Army Corps of Engineers may ban alcohol at the party
destination if problems arise again
Granite Point, also known as the cliffs, was closed
following heavy usage that left behind large amounts of garbage.
BY IAN SMAY, Evergreen May 13, 2018
The Walla Walla District of the United States Army Corp of
Engineers opened Granite Point, also known as the cliffs, following cleaning
last week.
The Corps decided to close the area on May 2 after heavy
partying on April 27 left hundreds of pounds of trash on the popular party
destination, according to the press release.
Washington State University and the University of Idaho held
a cleanup day for students on May 10.
The Corps could ban alcohol at Granite Point in the future
if issues continue, according to the release. They also said they would
continue to monitor usage of the area and ask people to take out trash they
bring in, as well as asking visitors to keep glass away from the beach area at
all times.
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Second JC Point Guard Signs with WSU Men’s Basketball
From WSU Sports Info
PULLMAN, Wash. – Ahmed Ali (5-11, 165, Point Guard, Toronto,
Ontario/Eastern Florida State College) has signed a Financial Aid Agreement, to
play basketball at Washington State University beginning in the fall of 2018,
head coach Ernie Kent announced Monday.
“We are very excited to have Ahmed at Washington State,”
Kent said. “He is another outstanding floor leader and person, who will fit
well in our program.”
Ali concluded his two-year basketball career at Eastern
Florida State College (Brevard County, FL) where he averaged 16.9 points and
4.8 assists per game. He averaged and 28.2 minutes in 70 games played, starting
69 of those games. Ali shot .426 from 3-point range (230-for-540). During his
two seasons, he set the school record with 230 career 3-pointers and scored
1,182 points.
As a sophomore, he was named to the NJCAA Division I
All-America second team and was the Mid-Florida Conference Player of the Year,
averaging 17.9 points and 4.7 assists while hitting at a .401 clip (113-282)
from 3-point range. His 113 made 3-pointers ranked 4th in NJCAA Division 1. Ali
helped lead the Titans to a 30-5 record and a third-place finish in the NJCAA
Division I National Championship Tournament.
Ali will enter WSU as a junior and becomes the sixth member
of the signing class that includes incoming freshmen Charles ‘CJ’ Elleby (6-6,
195, Forward, Seattle Wash./Cleveland High School) and Aljaž ‘Jaz’ Kunc (6-8,
190, Small Forward, Ljubljana, Slovenia/Impact Academy-Fla.), incoming
sophomore Marvin Cannon (6-5, 170, Small Forward, Richmond, Va., Barton
CC) as well as incoming juniors Jervae
Robinson (6-2, 175, Guard, Aurora, Colo./Otero JC) and Isaiah Wade (6-7, 215,
Power Forward, Minneapolis, Minn./Iowa Western Community College).
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WSU Freshman Sander Moldau Wins Pac-12 Track & Field Championships men’s
Pole Vault
STANFORD, Calif. -- Washington State freshman Sander Moldau won the
men's pole vault Sunday at the Pac-12 Track & Field Championships at Cobb
Track and Angell Field in Stanford. The WSU men's team was seventh with 56.5
points and the women's team was 10th with 26 points.
Moldau, from Rakvere, Estonia, cleared 17-feet 2 1/4 inches (5.24m) to
win the pole vault, the eighth time a WSU competitor has won the conference
title in this event but the first time since 1964. Moldau needed only one
attempt at the three bars of 16-6 1/2 (5.04m), 16-10 1/4 (5.14m) and his
winning height of 17-2 1/4 (5.24m). He missed on all three of his attempts at a
final height of 17-7 (5.36m).
Nick Johnson (sophomore, Spokane, Wash.) led a trio of Cougars men
scoring in the 110m hurdles. Johnson was the runner-up with a wind-aided PR
time of 13.84 seconds with Christapherson Gran (junior, Lynnwood, Wash.) fifth
with a wind-aided PR of 14.14, and Abu Kamara (redshirt senior, Kent, Wash.)
seventh in a time of 15.50w.
Brock Eager (redshirt junior, Renton, Wash.) was not able to repeat as
the men's hammer champion, finishing second by a mere 21 inches. Eager threw
218-feet 1 inch (66.47m) and USC's Nathan Bultman threw 219-10 (67.01m) to win
the title. Amani Brown (redshirt junior, Des Moines, Wash.) finished eighth
with a throw of 199-8 (60.86m).
In the men's high jump, Peyton Fredrickson (junior, Ridgefield, Wash.)
cleared the high jump bar at 6-11 (2.11m) for fifth place and Max English
(sophomore, Kingston, Wash.) soared to a lifetime-best of 6-9 3/4 (2.08m) for
sixth place.
Alissa Brooks-Johnson (redshirt senior, Doty, Wash.), the heptathlon
champion, took eighth place in the women's 100m hurdles with a non-wind-aided
PR time of 13.65 after running a PR of 13.60w in the prelims. Later in the
afternoon in the 400m hurdles, Stephanie Cho (junior, Vancouver, B.C. Canada)
took fifth in a time of 58.98 after running a PR of 58.95 in the prelims, and
Brooks-Johnson scored in eighth in a time of 59.80.
In the men's 400m hurdles, Christapherson Grant (junior, Lynnwood,
Wash.) ran a time of 52.29 for eighth place in the final after running a PR
time of 51.94 in the prelims.
Zach Smith (senior, Bremerton, Wash.) captured seventh place in the
men's 200m dash in a wind-aided PR time of 21.12w after clocking in a PR time
of 21.14 in the prelims.
Robby Flores (junior, El Paso, Texas) took seventh place in the triple
jump with a leap of 48-11 3/4 (14.93m).
In the short relays Sunday, the men's 400m relay of Smith, Brandon
Bains, Ray Littles and Ethan Gardner took fourth place with a time of 40.68
while the Cougars women's 4x100m relay of Jordyn Tucker, Regyn Gaffney, Tierney
Silliman and Brooks-Johnson took seventh place with a time of 46.97. The men's
4x400m relay squad of Grant, Littles, Justin Janke, and Jake Ulrich took
seventh in a time of 3:18.51.
THEY SAID:
Wayne Phipps, WSU Director of Cross Country/Track & Field said,
"Although the overall team placing is not what we had hoped, we did have
some outstanding individual performances. Sander winning the vault as a true
freshman was incredible. Brock Eager coming back from a serious shoulder injury
to finish second and just missing winning was also incredible. Nick Johnson ran
a great race in the sprint hurdles to lead us on the track. I was also very
impressed with Chris Grant scoring in both hurdles and Zach Smith running a
great race out of lane nine to score for us in the 200m. Peyton and Max
competed extremely well in the high both narrowly missing their next bars.
Alissa was as tough as ever scoring in both hurdles despite still being sick
from last weekend. Stephanie Cho had a huge breakthrough breaking 59 twice this
weekend and finishing an impressive fifth."
Brad Walker, WSU Assistant Coach/Jumps said, "Sander was
definitely the most composed vaulter in the field today. The winds were really
gusty and changing directions frequently, but Sander had no problems committing
to the jump and had no misses until after he had won the competition. It's
pretty rare for a freshman to be so solid in a big championship, but there was
never a point where I didn't feel like he was in control of the
competition."
NOTEWORTHY:
· Team scoring is
10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 for places first through eighth
· Women's team scores: USC
170, Oregon 154, Stanford 119, Colorado 76, Arizona State 68, UCLA 57, Arizona
44, California 40, Washington 32, Washington State 26, Oregon State 17, Utah 15
· Men's team scores:
Oregon 174, Stanford 125, USC 118, Arizona 91, Colorado 72, California 67,
Washington State 56.5, Washington 42, UCLA 38, Arizona State 31.5
· The next competition is
the NCAA West Region Preliminary Rounds, May 24-26, at Sacramento State
OTHER WSU RESULTS FROM MAY 13 AT PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIPS
MEN
1500m - Chandler Teigen 11th (3:52.00)
5000m - Michael Williams 13th (14:30.61)
High Jump - Keelan Halligan 12th (1.98m/6-6)
Discus - Tyler Jackson 13th (49.01m/160-9)
Hammer - Wyatt Meyring 10th (59.67m/195-9)
WOMEN
1500m - Kaili Keefe 12th (4:34.59)
5000m - Devon Bortfeld 16th (16:57.51)
4x400m Relay - 11th Stephanie Cho, Marlow Schulz, Zorana Grujic, Jelena
Grujic (3:53.91)
Triple Jump - Greer Alsop 12th (11.98m/39-3 3/4), Brittni Williams 15th
(PR 11.77m/38-7 1/2), Oyinlola Akinlosotu 16th (11.59m/38-0 1/4)
Discus - Kaitlin Krouse 15th (45.45m/149-1), Chrisshnay Brown 19th
(40.81m/133-11)
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In 1935, North America's first electron microscope was built in Pullman
by two WSU physicists.
May 14, 2018
By Will Ferguson, WSU News
In its day, a five-foot-tall golden microscope on the Washington State
University campus was the most powerful imaging device on the continent.
Despite its scientific significance, it has been largely lost from the pages of
history.
Michael Knoblauch, a biology professor at Washington State University,
wants to fix this.
“Europe’s first electron microscope earned its inventors a Nobel prize
and is on display at the Deutsches Museum, the world’s largest museum of
science and technology, while nobody really knows about our instrument.” said
Knoblauch, who is also the director of WSU’s Franceschi Microscopy and Imaging
Center. “Something of this significance should be in the Smithsonian.”
Making history
North America's first electron microscope was built in 1935 by two WSU
physicists.
The invention of the electron microscope in 1931 by German scientists
Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll ushered in a new era of scientific discovery. Their
research would eventually enable humans to see atoms for the first time and
dramatically increase knowledge of the cells that make up all plant and animal
life.
Five thousand miles away in rural eastern Washington, Paul Anderson, a
physicist at the Washington State College, read an account of Knoll and Ruska’s
work and was fascinated by the potential of electron microscopy for medical and
biological studies.
Anderson and Kenneth Fitzsimmons, a WSU physics lecturer, decided to
begin construction of their own prototype electron microscope despite being
unable to secure any funding for the project.
The two men worked in their spare time to collect parts for the
instrument. For a power source, they got a discarded medical x-ray machine from
a local hospital. They machined lenses, a camera and specimen chambers.
At last, in late 1935 the two WSU scientists began conducting optical
experiments.
A real game changer
The microscope Anderson and Fitzsimmons built in 1935 worked in a
similar fashion to the optical or light-based microscopes American teenagers
use in high school biology classes today.
However, instead of using glass lenses to focus rays of light, the WSU
microscope used electromagnetic lenses to focus electrons into a very thin beam
that was directed onto a specimen. The electron beam then passed through the
specimen and cast a magnified image of the object onto a fluorescent screen
that could be photographed and studied.
From 1935-1938, Anderson and Fitzsimmons took hundreds of electron
microphotographs of thin tungsten wire and other materials. They meticulously
recorded their results in a record book, currently housed in the WSU Libraries
Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections.
Despite their initial success, the two scientists’ progress was slow
and they were only able to achieve magnification of objects slightly better
than that of an optical microscope. The lack of funding finally took its toll
and Anderson and Fitzsimmons stopped their research entirely in 1938.
That same year, a research group at the University of Toronto in Canada
built North America’s second electron microscope, while in Germany, Ruska and
colleagues continued making rapid progress.
Priceless
Anderson and Fitzsimmons’ work was largely forgotten until 1965 when
WSU scientists Edward Steever and Dan Marlow found the discarded and decomposed
parts of the early electron microscope in storage in the WSU department of
physics. The two men reassembled the instrument and it has since been on
display in various locations of the WSU campus in Pullman. It can now be seen
at the entrance to the Franceschi Microscopy and Imaging Center in the basement
of Abelson Hall.
Knoblauch said he’d like to see greater recognition among the
scientific community and public for the work by Anderson and Fitzsimmons.
“From a historical viewpoint, Anderson and Fitzsimmons were pioneers in
the field of electron microscopy,” he said. “Having their microscope here at
WSU is a real privilege and I would like to spread the word so that more people
can have the opportunity to come and see it.”
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WSU BASKETBALL
Sharpshooting JC point guard Ahmed Ali signs with Washington State
basketball team
UPDATED: Sun., May 13, 2018, 7:53 p.m.
By Theo Lawson Spokane S-R
PULLMAN – Ernie Kent continues to fill his Washington State roster with
junior college talent as the 2018-19 basketball season approaches.
On Sunday, sharpshooting point guard Ahmed Ali of Eastern Florida State
College announced he’d signed a letter of intent with the Cougars, making him
the fourth junior college addition of this class and the seventh on Washington
State’s roster.
Ali (5-11, 165) is a native of Toronto, Ontario, and spent his last two
seasons at EFSC in Bervard County, Florida, where he became one of the most
accurate perimeter shooters in the country. He helped lead the Titans to the
semifinal round and a third-place finish at the NJCAA Division I National
Tournament and grabbed second-team All-American honors after scoring 17.9
points per game – on 40 percent from 3-point range – to go with 4.7 assists per
game and 3.1 rebounds per game as a sophomore.
EFSC made the national title game Ali’s freshman season, when he started
in 34 of 35 games and scored 15.9 ppg and had 4.9 apg. Ali shot 45 percent from
beyond the arc in 2016-17.
Ali’s penchant for scoring the basketball is well-known in his home
country. He’s one of just two Canadian high schoolers to have scored 100 points
in a single game. Ali once scored 103, on 22 made 3-pointers.
Kent State signed Ali after his freshman season at EFSC and planned to
join the Golden Flashes this fall, but the player was recently granted his
release and instead chose to join the Cougars.
WSU has filled six of potentially seven available scholarships for the
2018-19 season. Six scholarship players from last year’s team have either left
the program or graduated and the Cougars are waiting to see if junior forward
Robert Franks pursues professional basketball or returns to Pullman for his
senior season.
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NBA
Klay Thompson might be willing to leave millions on table
ByDYLAN HAUGH Cougfan.com
AS KLAY THOMPSON and Golden State head into Houston for tonight’s
Western Conference Finals opener, there are reports of Thompson potentially
signing a contract extension with the Warriors and leaving a big chunk of
change on the table.
Marcus Thompson II of The Athletic reported this weekend that Thompson,
28, and the Warriors have talked about a multi-year contract extension that
would keep Thompson with Golden State on a team-friendly four-year extension at
just over $102 million.
Thompson is set to become an unrestricted free agent in 2019 and could
sign a five-year, $188 million max extension with the Warriors, a difference of
$86 million.
If he decided to sign with another team, he could still ink a five-year,
$139 million deal. The Los Angeles Lakers and the Philadelphia 76ers are two
teams who have reported interest.
But Thompson, who starred at WSU from 2008-11, has been outspoken about
his desire to play with the Warriors long term.
"Playing for one team your whole career is definitely
special," Thompson told The Mercury News in February. "Only so many
guys have done it in professional sports, so it’ll be a goal of mine. Hopefully
it all works out."
If Thompson were to opt for the extension now, it could give Golden
State the breathing room it needs to keep him, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry and
Draymond Green together for the long haul. It also figures to be very difficult
for Golden State to sign Thompson to a max deal in 2019 and keep the group intact.
But some NBA talking heads don’t see the discount deal happening.
“I don’t know why he would deprive himself of $86 million dollars so
(owner) Joe Lacob, one of the richest men in the NBA, can keep that money,”
said Fox Sports’ Nick Wright.
Thompson has averaged 20-plus points per game and been named an
All-Star each of the last four seasons. He is three 3-pointers away from moving
to No. 10 on the NBA playoffs career leaderboard.and owns a career 42.2 percent
shooting percentage from downtown.
Golden State and Thompson, who is making 15.5 million this season, play
at Houston tonight (6 p.m. PT, TNT).
NOTABLE NOTE:
WSU made it official on Monday, putting out a release that JUCO point
guard Ahmed Ali (5-11, 165) has signed a financial aid agreement with WSU.
INYMI, our story on Ali's commitment -- the sixth member of Ernie Kent's 2018
recruiting class -- is here.
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WSU Cougars
Cougars Drop Series Rubber Game to USC
By: Alyssa Charlston / May 13, 2018
/Coug Center
PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State dropped the series rubber game with
USC 9-3 at Bailey-Brayton Field Sunday afternoon. The Trojans won 8-6 Friday
and Cougars claimed Saturday's contest 8-4.
WSU (15-27-1, 7-16-1) received three hits from Andres Alvarez along
with home runs from Dillon Plew and Blake Clanton. USC (23-23, 11-16 Pac-12)
scored twice in the second and four times in the fourth and took advantage for
nine Cougar walks to claim the series.
In the second inning, USC took advantage of some wildness by McFadden
and pushed two runs across on four walks and a single in the inning. Cougar
reliever A.J. Block took over with the bases loaded and one out and ended the
frame by retiring the next hitters with a flyout and strikeout to keep the
deficit at 2-0.
In the third inning, Dillon Plew led off the inning with solo home run
to right field for his first of the season. USC answered with four runs in
their half of the fourth inning, using five hits and a pair of walks to take a
6-1 lead.
In the bottom of the fourth, Clanton stayed hot and launched a 1-2
pitch over the right field wall for a solo homer, his ninth of the season and
making it a 6-2 game.
In the eighth inning, both teams traded runs as USC scored on a
sacrifice fly and the Cougars made it 7-3 with a two-out RBI-single by JJ
Hancock. The Trojans added two more in the ninth inning for a 9-3 advantage.
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