About photo with this
posting: WSU FOOTBALL COACH MIKE LEACH and players during a Pullman National
Lentil Festival Parade on Main Street in downtown Pullman. (No, photo not from
2018. It was taken by News for CougGroup a while ago.)
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Molly Myers Overtime Strike Wins It For
WSU Soccer
8/19/2018 from WSU Sports Info
PULLMAN, Wash. - Despite dominating the
day at Lower Soccer Field, the No. 21 Washington State soccer team (2-0-0)
needed extra time to come away with their second win of the season as a goal in
the 92' gave the Cougars a 1-0 win over Grand Canyon University (0-2-0) in
front of 1,075 fans on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Filling up the stat sheet with
a lopsided performance, the Cougars amassed 24 shots in an assault of the
Lopes' goal while allowing just two shots on the other end. With near misses
throughout the initial 90 minutes of action, freshman Molly Myers put an end to
madness just minutes into the first overtime when she pushed home her first
career goal off a short cross from senior Maddy Haro. Myers had nearly put the
Cougars on the board earlier in the game when she was robbed by the woodwork in
the 71'. She finished the game with three shots. Junior Morgan Weaver finished
the day with seven shots, including a close call early in the game at the 5',
when she forced a save from Lopes' keeper Abby Burton.
Stat of the Game: The Cougars outshot
the Lopes 24-2 while holding a 14-1 advantage in corners
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Spokane Spokesman-Review:
“Air quality in Spokane has tipped into
the “hazardous” range, and regional air quality monitors caution anyone,
regardless of health, from exerting themselves out of doors.”
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Tri-Cities smoky air worse than ever.
How bad is it?
By Annette Cary, Tri-City Herald 8/19/2018
Air quality was the
worst in at least a year Sunday, as smoke from wildfires blanketed the
Tri-Cities.
The smoke was so
thick that air quality was rated as
“hazardous” by the Washington state Department of Ecology on Sunday afternoon.,
after being rated as “very unhealthy” in the morning.
“These are among the
worst readings we have ever had in the Tri-Cities based on a cursory review of
historical data,” said Robin Priddy, director of the Benton Clean Air Agency.
People with lung and
heart disease or who have survived a stroke should ask their doctor if they
need to leave the area, said the Department of Ecology. Everyone should stay
indoors.
“I went outside to take the trash out. The
smoke is so bad, I looked around to make sure the neighbor’s house wasn’t on
fire,” one reader posted to the Tri-City Herald’s Facebook page.
Another posted that
visibility was so poor that drivers on the Interstate 182 bridge between Pasco
and Richland could not see the water of the Columbia River.
Air quality could
remain in the at least the “unhealthy” range or worse until at least Tuesday
evening, according to the Benton Clean Air Agency.
The National Weather
Service predicts widespread haze to stick around longer — at least through
Wednesday.
Smoke was being
pushed south toward the Tri-Cities from fires burning in Washington state and
Canada on Sunday.
“The ongoing wildfire
activity affecting portions of the western United States and western Canada
continues to produce enormous amounts of smoke that covers most of Canada and
the northern portion of the United States,” the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration said, as quoted on the Washington Smoke Information
blog.
A high pressure
system is keeping the smoke trapped in low-lying areas, including the
Tri-Cities, according to the weather service.
Visibility has
dropped because of the smoke in the air, and drivers are urged by the
Washington State Patrol to keep their car lights on in the daytime.
Everyone should avoid
all strenuous activity and close windows and doors, if possible, the Department
of Ecology said.
Air conditioners
should be set to “recirculate” to prevent pulling more smoky air indoors.
People without air
conditioners who need relief from the heat should head to public places with
air conditioning, including libraries and community centers.
The high Sunday in
the Tri-Cities was expected to hit 94,
with another day about as hot on Monday, according to the weather service
forecast.
Respiratory masks
sold at hardware and home repair stores may help protect from air pollution,
according to the Washington state Department of Health.
But they need to be rated N95 or N100 to be effective
against smoke.
Anyone with lung or
heart disease or other chronic illnesses should ask their doctor before using a
mask because it can make breathing more difficult, according to the Department
of Health.
They are not approved
for infants and small children and don’t work on men with beards because they
do not seal well enough to offer protection.
Poor air quality is
particularly hard on people with chronic illnesses, including diabetes and
stroke survivors, plus infants, children, pregnant women and older people.
Everyone can expect
to have symptoms such as watery or dry eyes and throat and sinus irritation.
People with serious
symptoms, such as chest pain or an irregular heart beat should seek immediate
medical attention.
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NOTICE WSU MENTIONS IN FOLLOWING STORY:
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He was a jokester who complained about
his job, but friends still baffled by thief’s airplane heist
Originally published August 19, 2018 at
6:00 am Updated August 18, 2018 at 7:27 pm
A week after Richard Russell stole a
Horizon passenger plane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and crashed
it on Ketron Island in Puget Sound, there are few hints as to why he did it or
how he was able to fly the aircraft.
By David Gutman and Hal Bernton
Seattle Times staff reporters
Alio Fan woke up last Saturday morning
and clicked on a voice recording someone had sent him. It was his childhood
friend, Richard Russell, talking to air traffic controllers, a conversation
that was then broadcast all over the world.
“Rolling out of bed and hearing his
voice,” Fan recalled, “My initial reaction was ‘oh what kind of prank is he
playing. This is going to be hilarious.'”
The Russell he knew had always been a
jokester, the class clown. “I just thought it was another one of his jokes,”
Fan said.
A week after Russell stole a 76-seat
passenger plane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, traversing the Puget
Sound region for more than an hour before crashing to his death on Ketron
Island, there are few hints as to why he did it or how he was able to fly a
commercial airplane. Friends and former colleagues can’t comprehend how the
smart, funny, quiet man they knew could have carried out such a shocking heist.
Mike Criss, a family friend, whose son
had been close friends with Russell since second grade, said that he’d last
talked to Russell in February.
“He sounded just perfectly fine,” Criss,
referring to Russell by his nickname, told the Anchorage Daily News, which
worked in cooperation with The Seattle Times on this story. “Just the same old
Beebo.”
Criss said his son talked to Russell the
week before the crash and nothing seemed amiss.
Russell’s family has declined to comment
beyond a statement issued the day after the crash. “This is a complete shock to
us,” his family wrote.
A man who answered the door at the
Graham home of Russell’s mother-in-law Wednesday made it clear that the family
did not intend to comment further.
David Odell, pastor at Russell’s Auburn
church, also declined to discuss Russell, citing the family’s wishes. “In the
statement where it says it’s a complete shock, it’s just 100 percent true,”
Odell said.
“Eager to experiment”
Russell, 29, was born in Key West,
Florida, and moved to Wasilla, Alaska, when he was 7, according to a blog he
created for an online communications class at Washington State University.
Criss said that Russell never talked about planes or flying as a kid.
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He played football and competed in track
and field at Wasilla High School, according to a local newspaper, graduating in
2008. He moved to Coos Bay, Oregon, attending Southwestern Oregon Community
College, where he met Hannah Stracener at a church gathering in 2010. They
married a year later and then opened a bakery that they ran together for three
years.
They rose together at 5 a.m., preparing
breads and pastries in a shop that was little more than an oven, a sink and a
couple counters, according to an article at the time from the Coos Bay
World. They had different personalities.
Hannah, who had gone to culinary school, was “detail oriented” and ran the
show, the newspaper reported, while her husband was more laid-back and “eager
to experiment with new and wild recipes.”
They moved to Sumner in 2015, to be nearer
to her family, Russell wrote on the blog, and he got a job working for Horizon
Air. He also enrolled at WSU, and graduated in 2017 with a degree in social
sciences, the registrar said.
Russell was a ground-service agent at
Horizon, part of a two-person “tow team” that turned around airplanes. He was
regularly alone in cockpits, for stretches that ranged from 10 to 45 minutes.
He turned on planes’ auxiliary power units (essentially the battery),
communicated with air traffic controllers and would have used the planes’
brakes in an emergency, but would never have turned on the engines or
propellers, former co-workers said.
Mary Schiavo, an aviation attorney and
former inspector general of the Department of Transportation, noted that pilots
are never alone in the cockpit, always required to be joined by a colleague,
but ground-service agents enter the cockpit alone, with their partner driving
the pushback tractor on the ground.
Russell’s dramatic theft and crash
prompted increased security checks at Sea-Tac and calls for a nationwide review
of security measures.
“Chalk it up to that”
Former co-workers describe a quiet,
friendly guy who read a lot and liked the free travel perks that came with
working for an airline. But four former ground-service agents who worked with
him keyed in on one line from the cockpit recording, a complaint about wages
and a dig at management.
“Minimum wage, we’ll chalk it up to
that,” Russell said on the flight radio to air traffic controllers. “Maybe that
will grease some gears a little bit with the higher-ups.”
Russell’s former co-workers described
Horizon as an often unpleasant place to work, where workers were pushed hard,
underappreciated and carried a sense of grievance that they were paid less than
SeaTac’s much-publicized $15 an hour minimum wage.
It’s a complaint that Russell himself
echoed in social-media postings, noting the dichotomy between a grueling,
low-paying job and the globe-trotting trips that the job let him take.
“I never thought I would work as a
ground service agent,” Russell wrote. “It seemed like such miserable work and I
never could imagine why anyone would want to subject themselves to all the
constant noise, gas fumes, and heavy lifting … I would like to dedicate this
blog to the life of a ‘ramper’ and highlight the remarkable contrast between
our work and rest.”
In a video Russell made, he focused on
the flight benefits that came with his job, which he used for a trip to France
and frequent trips home to Alaska. He also wrote about his hopes for the
future, which included being a manager at the company or becoming a military
officer.
Fan, who last saw his childhood friend
last year when they met up for a night of pizza and beer in Las Vegas, said the
travel benefits were important to Russell.
“He wanted to help out his family the
best he could by, A, making money and then, B, so his mom and family could
travel around,” Fan said.
But another posting, again for Russell’s
communications class, hinted at a dissatisfaction with his job, albeit one that’s
common in many workplaces.
Russell was interviewing several
unidentified co-workers about how they liked working at Horizon.
“I enjoy that it is a physical job with
a lot of different tasks you can partake in. I enjoy the flexibility of the
schedule and the flight benefits,” one co-worker told Russell. “I do not enjoy
management.”
“Agreed,” Russell said.
Brandon Brown, who worked as a Horizon
ground-service agent for six years, before leaving in 2017, said he used to
talk with Russell about trips they would take. Russell, he said, was always
friendly and was always reading in what little down time they had.
“Every time he’d come into work he’d
always have a stack full of books,” said Brown, who didn’t recall the titles.
“He was the nicest guy. Sometimes you can work at places and some of the people
there you’d think something was a little off with them, I never in a million
years thought that about him. I just don’t understand.”
SeaTac was the first city in the country
to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour, paving the way for much larger cities
like Seattle, San Francisco and New York.
But SeaTac’s law didn’t cover everybody
— specifically it doesn’t apply to airline employees, like Horizon
ground-service agents.
Brown said the starting wage for
ground-service agents was about $12 an hour.
“It didn’t sit well with people,” Brown
said. “You had people up working in the restaurants, everybody else at the
airport made $15.”
Horizon declined to discuss wages either
for Russell or for his employment position and didn’t answer questions about
the workplace culture or complaints raised by employees.
“Our focus continues to be supporting
our employees, providing support for his family and cooperating fully with the
investigation,” Horizon spokeswoman Bobbie Egan said. “It wouldn’t be
appropriate to speculate on his motives.”
One Horizon flight attendant said she
expected to see and hear from management the day after the heist and crash.
But, she said, that didn’t happen. Instead she found root-beer floats from the
company in the break room. Egan said the
airline has been providing food, grief counselors and emotional-support animals
to employees.
Horizon ground-service agents are also
one of the few nonunionized groups of tarmac workers at Sea-Tac.
“We were overworked, extremely
underpaid,” said Austin Duerr, who worked for Horizon from 2007 to 2012. “We
talk about workplace culture, what is the culture of an organization? If there
was one word or two words, it would be dysfunctional and toxic.”
Another former ground-service agent, who
worked with Russell but asked to remain anonymous because he still works at the
airport, said ramp agents talked about their wages on the tarmac “all the
time.”
“This is going to sound bad, but I’m
kind of surprised it took as long as it did before something happened,” the
former worker said.
“Just a broken guy”
But lots of people get pushed at work,
wish they were paid more and complain about management. They don’t steal
airplanes.
Fan, Russell’s childhood friend, remains
in disbelief that his friend actually did this. And Russell’s description of
himself on the cockpit audio — “just a broken guy, got a few screws loose I
guess, never really knew it until now” — is at odds with Fan’s memories of his
friend.
He remembers growing up in Wasilla,
camping and video games and building forts in the woods. They tried to recreate
“The Lord of the Rings” and invented a game called “poop ball,” that involved
paint, spinning chairs, a crutch and an oar. He never talked about any
mental-health issues, Fan said.
“He was always happy, every time we saw
him, it was like he had these giant ear-to-ear grins,” Fan said. “Myself, my
friends, everybody, we’ve been talking to each other and we’re all like, ‘Why?’
I don’t understand.”
Seattle Times staff reporters Lewis Kamb
and Agueda Pacheco-Flores and news researcher Miyoko Wolf contributed to this
report.
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WSU COUGARS FOOTBALL
Reactions from WSU Football’s Saturday
scrimmage
The Sunday reaction post is (sort of)
back
By PJ Kendall Coug Center Aug 19, 2018,
6am PDT
Good morning. The Cougar football team
managed to pry itself away from the Lentil Festival on Saturday, just long
enough to hold its final fan-witnessed scrimmage. As with every time the team
plays against itself, there were plenty of good things that happened, which
means there were also plenty of bad things close behind.
The quarterback race seems to be
clearing a bit with each passing day, and every sign is pointing toward Gardner
Minshew taking the first snap in Laramie. While Mike Leach hasn’t come out and
named a starter, Minshew continues to get the longest look in terms of reps.
That continued on Saturday, as the East Carolina transfer completed more passes
than any other quarterback attempted.
Here is what Mike Leach told the
Spokesman Review afterward:
“That’s the biggest difficulty we’ve
had, is all three are pretty similar,” Leach said. “And with less experience
with us, Gardner’s coming along rapidly and he’s right there with the other
two. So I definitely want to know what he can do with more reps, which that’s
why we gave him more reps this week.
“The other thing is, I think he does a
great job controlling and elevating the unit and getting those guys all hyped
up.”
While it appears to be only a matter of
time before Minshew assumes the role of QB 1, it would be really great if one
guy decisively stood out above the rest. Let’s get to a few brief reactions,
based solely on game stories.
The Good
The Cougars scored 11 touchdowns. Maybe
they can do that in a regular season game!
Looks like Boobie Williams and Max
Borghi are going to pack a pretty good 1-2 punch at running back. We all know
what Boobie can do, and Borghi appears to be as-advertised.
Brandon Arconado may take the title of
Training Camp All-American after catching two more touchdown passes, giving him
four in two scrimmages.
The receivers as a whole continue to
look like the team’s best position group.
The Bad
The last time Keith Harrington was a
regular in the running back rotation, he lost his spot in part due to a
proclivity toward fumbling. Saturday, he did it again, losing the ball just
short of the goal line. If you can’t hold on to the ball, you aren’t gonna
play.
Lamonte McDougal is probably WSU’s best
defensive lineman. He can’t play this season.
You should be very, very concerned about
the defensive line’s current state. Like, “we’re 35,000 feet over the North
Atlantic, both engines just flamed out, and the pilots have food poisoning”
concerned.
The Ugly
College kickers
The Cougars will practice Sunday
evening, then take the day off Monday, as classes begin. According to the
Spokesman Review, practice will be closed to the media and the public following
Tuesday’s session. That’ll make all the difference as to whether WSU is any
good in 2018. Or not
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WSU FOOTBALL
Brandon Arconado hauls in two more TDs …
and four other reactions from Washington State’s second fall scrimmage
UPDATED: Sat., Aug. 18, 2018, 9:29 p.m.
By Theo Lawson of the
Spokesman-Review/Inland Empire
PULLMAN – Nearly two weeks shy of their
2018 opener at Wyoming, the Washington State Cougars returned to Martin Stadium
on Saturday afternoon for the second scrimmage of the preseason camp. Here are
five reactions, with some additional notes, from the midday mock game.
1.
Grooming Gardner
The Cougars haven’t named a starting
quarterback after 13 practices, but Gardner Minshew separated himself from Trey
Tinsley and Anthony Gordon during the first scrimmage, then got the largest
share of reps in the skeleton and 11-on-11 periods in each of the next six
practices. On Saturday, Mike Leach let Minshew operate three offensive drives,
while Gordon, Tinsley and Cammon Cooper each had two.
Minshew got through the scrimmage
without any major errors, finishing 13 of 18 with 123 yards, no touchdowns and
no interceptions. Tinsley, who seems to be his top challenger at this point,
was 6 for 10 with 52 yards and three TDs, but the redshirt junior let the ball
slip out of his throwing hand on consecutive passing attempts during his second
drive. The defense jumped on the first fumble, but Tinsley was able to pounce
on the second. Gordon was 6 of 11 with 86 yards and three TDs, while Cooper was
8 of 12 with 77 yards, one TD and one interception.
“That’s the biggest difficulty we’ve
had, is all three are pretty similar,” Leach said. “And with less experience
with us, Gardner’s coming along rapidly and he’s right there with the other
two. So I definitely want to know what he can do with more reps, which that’s
why we gave him more reps this week.
“The other thing is, I think he does a
great job controlling and elevating the unit and getting those guys all hyped
up.”
2. Reason for concern
The kickers aren’t exactly instilling
confidence in Cougar nation 13 days ahead of the season opener. Redshirt
sophomore Jack Crane and redshirt freshman Blake Mazza have been getting equal
opportunity to prove they can succeed Erik Powell, who missed just four field
goals on 24 attempts last season. By comparison, Crane and Mazza, with a much
smaller sample size, have already missed six kicks in the two scrimmages. After
each going 2 for 3 on Aug. 10, they combined to make just 3 of 7 on Saturday.
Mazza made two, from 35 and 42 yards, and hit two, from 37 and 45. Crane was
good from 33 yards out, but couldn’t convert from 43 and 47.
3. Dynamic duo
Running backs James Williams and Max
Borghi combined for 98 all-purpose yards and four touchdowns, offering another
glimpse of how dynamic they could be as a backfield tandem this season. The
shifty Williams led WSU on the ground, with three carries for 25 yards and two
touchdowns. Supposedly, the junior tailback is barred from hurdling defenders
this season, but he lifted his body over Darrien Molton as the corner was
diving for his legs near the sideline and squeezed out another 5 yards. Borghi
caught one touchdown pass, hauling in a ball from Tinsley near the sideline
before chugging around the right side for a 17-yard score, and punched in
another TD on the ground. The Colorado native continues to be one of the most
physically imposing skill players on this roster and it probably needs no
reminder, but he’s just 18.
“Max is special, he really is,” Minshew
said. “Just his strength, speed, understanding of the game. Lot of freshmen
come in, the game’s fast, they’re wide-eyed. Nah, he knows what to do and he’s
going to do it really well.”
4. Growing pains
The Cougars have a number of true
freshmen who will see the field this year: Borghi and Rodrick Fisher on
offense, Tyrese Ross and Halid Djibril on defense, to name a few. But the vast
majority will need the obligatory redshirt year to improve their strength and
physical conditioning, and to adjust to the college game. Offensive line coach
Mason Miller was particularly vocal when two breakdowns up front led to
consecutive QB sacks on Cooper. Freshman tackle Cade Beresford was yanked from
the O-line and redshirt sophomore Liam Ryan took his place. Leach ended the
drive prematurely, visibly frustrated by the group’s execution.
“I thought our third group was on
offense … it was atrocious,” Leach said. “They just didn’t play together,
played timid. I would say, I don’t know how many for sure, but it looked like
nine out of the 11 out there looked timid with the third group and they better
get used to playing because they’re going to do it virtually every Thursday.”
5. Arco-bravo
Through two scrimmages, it’s not Tay
Martin, Jamire Calvin, Kyle Sweet, Renard Bell or Dezmon Patmon leading the
Cougars in receiver touchdowns. It’s Brandon Arconado. The redshirt junior, who
came to WSU as a walk-on and earned a scholarship this spring, is up to four
touchdown catches in two mock games. His first on Saturday may have been the
highlight of the scrimmage. Under pressure, Tinsley blindly aired a ball toward
the end zone and Arconado stumbled back a few steps before cradling the pass
into his arms.
Notes
Luke Falk’s No. 4 is up for grabs again.
Bell inherited the number this offseason, but the redshirt sophomore receiver
has apparently parted ways with it after just two weeks. One of a few Cougars
to undergo recent number changes, Bell is back to the No. 81 he wore last
season as a redshirt freshman when he caught 40 passes for 538 yards and three
touchdowns. Other notable number changes: freshman safety Tyrese Ross (No. 6 to
No. 1), sophomore corner George Hicks III (No. 8 to No. 18), Rush linebacker
Willie Taylor III (No. 57 to No. 27), freshman Nickel Patrick Nunn (No. 22 to
No. 32), redshirt sophomore kicker Jack Crane (No. 42 to No. 33), freshman
receiver Brandon Gray (No. 83 to No. 84) and junior receiver (No. 89 to No.
86).
Kyle Sweet, the top receiver in yardage
with 78, hauled in two touchdowns and was on the end of a 50-yarder thrown by
Tinsley in which he outlegged corner Makiah Gilmer to get open before catching
the ball in stride and racing into the end zone.
Even if he doesn’t crack the rotation
this year, true freshman receiver Kassidy Woods appears as if he’ll have a
bright future with the Cougars. Woods hauled in two passes for 41 yards and
scored a touchdown.
The Cougars are progressively getting
better at defending the red zone and it showed again. That’s where WSU recorded
its only interception, on Cooper, and forced its only fumble, on Keith
Harrington. “When you pressure people, you make people make plays,” defensive
coordinator Tracy Claeys said. “It’s one-on-ones and who wins and they got to
block them. It’s not just like a coach calling a play and you’re sitting back
in the zone.”
Wide receiver Calvin Jackson Jr. didn’t
participate in the scrimmage, nor did linebacker Peyton Pelluer. Defensive
players Nnamdi Oguayo and Derek Moore weren’t in attendance.
There was a good turnout for the second
scrimmage, which fell two days before the start of the academic semester at
WSU. An estimated 100 fans and students showed up.
WSU will hold a short practice Sunday at
8 p.m., take Monday off, then return for a fully padded, full-length practice
Tuesday. Every practice from Wednesday through the rest of the season will be
closed to media and the general public.
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Chef spills secrets to good lentil
dishes
National Lentil Festival celebrates high
protein legume grown locally
By Justyna Tomtas of the Lewiston Trib
PULLMAN — The secret to a delicious
lentil dish is the quality of the legume.
At least that’s how Jamie Callison puts
it.
Callison is the executive chef for the
Washington State University School of Hospitality Business Management and has
authored the cookbook “The Crimson Spoon: Plating Regional Cuisine on the
Palouse.”
“Buying good quality is very important,”
he said. “Don’t buy some of the really cheap products because they have been
stored too long, or stored improperly, so they have a weird chalky aftertaste
that’s just not something I would recommend.”
He recommends grabbing a shasta variety
instead of the more popular, and less expensive, dark brown lentils.
Regrettably, Callison said, many people’s first stab at lentils is
underwhelming, because they try the wrong kind.
“I love the Spanish browns, don’t get me
wrong, but the dark brown lentils, the less expensive product, that’s not
quality,” he said. “It just doesn’t taste good. It has an off flavor and it’s
bitter. It’s like having bad lamb once: You try it and you’re done with lamb
for years.”
Around 18 percent of the nation’s lentils
are grown on the Palouse. The farmlands of northern Idaho and eastern
Washington are known for producing a very high quality of the legume.
Lentils are “probably one of the most
underutilized commodity products,” Callison said.
That’s unfortunate, because they’re high
in protein and are excellent at absorbing other flavors, he said.
On Saturday, Callison took to the Gazebo
Stage at the National Lentil Festival in Pullman to cook Moroccan lentil and
sweet potato cakes, topped with an arugula, cherry tomato salad, labneh cheese
and spiced yogurt.
The flavorful smells wafted down to the
eager crowd who observed his technique as the annual parade on Grand Avenue and
Main Street came to a close.
The samples of the dish he cooked didn’t
disappoint.
Chelsea Price, a senior WSU food science
nutrition student, said industries have been switching to pulse flours as a
substitution to classic wheat varieties. Pulse refers to the dried seed of
legumes, a category lentils, beans and chickpeas fall into.
“It’s spreading very quickly and it’s a
good thing,” she said. “Pulse flours have higher fiber, more protein and are
lower in starch. It provides a higher nutritional value and lowers their
costs.”
Price is currently doing a study with
pulse flours as she attempts to substitute it into pancakes and bread products.
“It’s going to increase the market for
that kind of stuff,” she said.
Another expert tip when working with
lentils: cook without fear.
“Don’t be so fearful of something you
don’t understand,” Callison said. “There are so many resources and great
recipes.”
When grabbing a good variety of lentils,
it’s worth the cost, Callison said.
“Buying the right product and even a
higher quality is a bit more expensive, but it’s still probably the least
expensive protein that you could actually make at home,” he said.
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COUGARS: Blows traded but three men
still in hunt
By DALE GRUMMERT OF THE Lewiston TRIBUNE
PULLMAN - Whatever else they
accomplished in their second preseason scrimmage, the Cougars did little to
clear up their quarterback muddle.
Maybe their defense can take some credit
for that.
Gardner Minshew seems to have emerged as
the favorite for a starting QB role, but Anthony Gordon probably tightened his
competition with Trey Tinsley for the backup position Saturday, muddying the
waters for a coach who famously likes clarity at that position.
And the Washington State offense in
general needs to get better inside the 10-yard line.
"You know it's pretty good work
when both sides are about half-(ticked)," coach Mike Leach said.
Minshew-led units produced touchdowns on
the first two possessions but later faltered as the Cougars' short-yardage
defense gratified new coordinator Tracy Claeys by dominating the middle
segments of a 90-minute scrimmage in somewhat hazy, 85-degree conditions at
Martin Stadium.
Gordon, who'd been outdone by his two
rivals in the Cougs' first scrimmage, began both of his primary possessions
with quick-strike TD passes, finding a clever Kyle Sweet for an early bomb and
later throwing the first of his two scoring passes to true freshman Rodrick
Fisher.
Tinsley, the surprising walk-on who'd
performed solidly in Scrimmage 1, aided Gordon's cause by comically losing his
grip while cocking the ball - on back-to-back plays. After linebacker Dominick
Silvels recovered the first fumble, coaches gave Tinsley another chance and the
same thing happened, this time with less defensive pressure. Tinsley jumped on
the ball himself, but that didn't save him from Leach's disapproval.
"This is the first and second time
I've seen him do it," Leach said. "They (quarterbacks) do the same
thing they always do - they look at their hand or they look at their glove,
like it's their hand's fault."
Leach, who until now can't remember
presiding over a genuinely competitive three-man QB race in his three-decade
career, again declined to specify his depth chart at that position, though he
has "kind of" set a timetable for cutting the field to two.
"I think we could win with all
three of them," he said.
But he would clearly like to eliminate
one of three candidates. For one thing, it would mean more reps for Minshew,
the graduate transfer who didn't arrive on campus until May. The Cougs open
Sept. 1 at Wyoming.
Not that Minshew looked uncomfortable.
The quirky, energetic leadership he exudes has perhaps helped him gain
separation from the other two. But his third possession was marred by a drop by
Dezmon Patmon and a goal-line fumble by Keith Harrington as the Cougars'
assertive red-zone defense began to sparkle.
Not much earlier, true freshman QB Camm
Cooper spoiled his long, back-shoulder strike to Kassidy Woods with a
short-yardage blunder, gift-wrapping an end-zone interception that nickelback
Damion Lee nearly returned to the house.
Minshew finished 13-for-18 for 123
yards, a nifty Brandon Arconado caught two scoring passes, and tailbacks James
Williams and Max Borghi tallied two TDs apiece. But there were too many dropped
passes for a sunny day. And in terms of where the possessions arbitrarily began
in this situational scrimmage, the deck was stacked against the defense, which
made its red-zone triumphs the more impressive.
Sophomore linebacker Jahad Woods thought
the defense caught the O off-guard with its red-zone tactics, saying "I
think we just outcoached the offense. We ran specific plays that they haven't
seen before, and we executed that."
Claeys wasn't sure about the surprise
factor, and neither was Minshew.
But the offense is surely surprised by
one thing - that three guys are still standing in the quarterback race.
RUSHING - James Williams 3-5, Keith
Harrington 6-23, Max Borghi 7-15, Caleb Perry 5-11.
PASSING - Gardner Minshew 13-18-0-123,
Anthony Gordon 6-11-9-86, Camm Cooper 8-12-1-77, Trey Tinsley 6-10-0-52.
RECEIVING - Kyle Sweet 4-78, Rodrick
Fisher 4-43, Brandon Arconado 3-29, Max Borghi 3-28, Jamire Calvin 3-7, James
Williams 3-30, Drue Jackson 2-15, Robert Lewis 2-2, Tay Martin 2-13, Dezmon
Patmon 2-16, Kassidy Woods 2-41, Renard Bell 1-27, Clay Markoff 1-9, Eason
Winston Jr. 1-0.
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