WSU to
announce campus operational status at 6:00 Tuesday morning
February
11, 2019 By Evan Ellis Pullman Radio News. Photo from Pullman Radio News
website
Washington
State University officials will announce at 6:00 Tuesday morning whether or not
there will be class for the day or if class will start on time in the
morning. WSU was closed Monday because
of snow.
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Moscow
Pullman Daily News says
Another
shot of winter is expected to arrive tonight
Forecast
for the Palouse calls for up to nearly a foot of snow by late Tuesday night
The
Palouse could get nearly a foot of snow from Monday morning through late
Tuesday night, according to a winter storm watch issued by the National Weather
Service in Spokane.
The NWS
expects a series of winter storm systems to impact the Inland Northwest through
the middle of the week. The Idaho Panhandle, including much of the Palouse, and
the Cascade Mountains will be most affected.
The first
storm system will leave late this morning and dump an estimated 3 to 5 inches
of snow, and the second and more severe system will arrive at about 4 p.m. this
afternoon and not let up until late Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.
According
to the NWS forecast for the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport, tonight’s forecast
calls for 3 to 5 inches of snow. Another 2 to 5 inches are expected Tuesday
morning and through the night.
Travel is
expected to be very difficult to impossible tonight into Tuesday morning.
The NWS
says hazardous conditions could impact the morning or evening commute.
As of
Sunday night, every day of the weekly forecast at the Pullman-Moscow Regional
Airport called for at least a 30 percent chance of snow.
Wednesday
and Thursday nights are expected to be the coolest nights with low temperatures
at about 17 degrees.
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Spokane
Spokesman-Review says:
Forecasters:
As much as 12 inches of new snow could fall in Spokane area
With
temperatures expected to rise over the next couple days, the snow that falls
likely will be wetter and heavier than the light, fluffy powder we’ve seen so
far.
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WSU Cougars
men’s basketball
Robert
Franks grabs weekly awards from NCAA, Pac-12 after leading WSU to road sweep
Originally
published February 11, 2019 at 2:04 pm
Franks led
the Cougars to a historic road sweep of the Arizona schools, averaging 32.5
points over wins against Arizona and Arizona State.
By Theo
Lawson Spokane S-R
A historic
road sweep led to some rare weekly awards for the Washington State men’s
basketball team.
Robert
Franks, who poured in 65 points and pulled down 22 rebounds during the Cougars’
wins at Arizona State and Arizona, was named the NCAA.com National Player of
the Week and the Pac-12 Player of the Week Monday morning.
The Pac-12
award is handed out weekly throughout the three-month long regular season, but
it’d been more than three years since a WSU player was recognized. Franks
became the first since former Cougar forward Josh Hawkinson was honored in
2015.
The Cougars
hadn’t won consecutive Pac-12 games on the road since 2009 and not since 1994
had a team from the conference swept Arizona State and Arizona.
Franks
tied his career-high, scoring 34 points on 11-of-17 shooting from the field in
WSU’s 91-70 win over the Sun Devils. He made 5-of-9 3-pointers in the game and
all seven of his free throws. Franks also had 13 rebounds, four blocked shots,
four steals and two assists in he Cougars’ first road win of the season.
Two days
later in Tucson, the senior forward from Vancouver again was 11-of-17 from the
field, but finished with 31 points and nine rebounds in a 69-55 win over
Arizona. He was 7-of-9 from beyond the arc and dished out two assists.
“My
teammates, I just give hats off to them,” Franks told the Pac-12 Networks after
the Arizona game. “They give me extreme confidence. They want me to lead them
and I just want to go out there and play hard and lead for them. So hats off to
them, it wouldn’t be possible if I didn’t have any of my teammates.”
Multiple
30-point games bumped Franks’ Pac-12-leading scoring average to 22.6
points-per-game – more than two points higher than Oregon State’s Tres Tinkle.
Franks has scored at least 20 points in four of his last five games and now has
four 30-point games on the season.
He’s also
top-five in the league in rebounding, checking in at No. 5 with 7.7 boards per
game.
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Vince
Grippi of Spokane S-R says:
• Our Theo
Lawson spent some time yesterday in front of the computer, researching Gage
Gubrud’s best games in an Eastern Washington uniform. And his ensuing story got
me thinking.
There once
was another Eastern graduate transfer quarterback who had the Pac-12 all in an
uproar. And, while he was healthy, Vernon Adams was special for the Oregon
Ducks.
The two
had remarkably similar statistics at Eastern, with Adams completing 64.8
percent of his 1,081 pass attempts as an Eagle. He threw for 10,438 yards,
tossed 110 touchdown passes and threw 31 interceptions. He also rushed for
1,205 yards, averaging 4.1 a carry.
Gubrud
completed 64.6 percent of his throws, passed for 9,984 yards and rushed for
another 1,042. In his four years, Gubrud threw 87 touchdown passes – 48 of
those coming in 2016 – and was intercepted 32 times.
When Adams
transferred to Oregon in 2015, he was hailed as the missing piece for the
Ducks, who held Pac-12 championship potential. Instead, Adams broke a finger on
his throwing hand in the second game, was either out or ineffective for a month
and the Ducks, who lost two of the five games Adams was hurt, settled for an
Alamo Bowl berth.
That
aspect of the Gubrud transfer saga will be written this fall.
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WSU football
Five best:
Counting down the top games of Gage Gubrud’s decorated Eastern Washington
career
UPDATED:
Sun., Feb. 10, 2019, 9:26 p.m.
By Theo
Lawson Spokane S-R
The sample
size is fairly large, but most who’ve followed Gage Gubrud through his career
at Eastern Washington would contend the quarterback’s finest hour with the
Eagles came three years ago in his first start, against the very Washington
State program he’ll be suiting up for this fall.
In a 45-42
upset win at Martin Stadium, Gubrud passed for more than 470 yards and five
touchdowns while rushing for more than 70 yards and adding a touchdown on the
ground.
Wide
receiver Cooper Kupp was excellent, but Gubrud may have been even better in a
game that set the stage for one of the most prolific careers by a QB in school
history.
Gubrud
went 21-7 as EWU’s starter, was twice named a finalist for the Walter Payton
Award and finished his time in Cheney with 101 all-purpose touchdowns and more
than 11,000 all-purpose yards.
Before
Gubrud throws on the crimson and gray for the first time, we count down five of
his best games in the Eagles’ red and black.
1. Eastern Washington at
Washington State, 2016
Gubrud set
a high bar for himself in the first start of his career. He’d win many
consequential games against his Big Sky competition – and multiple FCS playoff
games – but the season opener in 2016 still stands alone as Gubrud’s best feat,
and it’ll certainly be a talking point in his new locker room this season.
WSU would
win nine games and beat Miami in the Sun Bowl that season, but on Sept. 3, the
Cougars had no solution for the FCS QB-WR tandem of Gubrud and Kupp, which
would account for 12 passes, 206 yards and three touchdowns. For all Gubrud
accomplished through the air that day, the redshirt sophomore also rushed 14
times for 77 yards and the play that decided EWU’s 45-42 victory came on a
read-option that saw the QB fake a handoff to Antoine Custer before darting
through the heart of WSU’s defense for a 30-yard touchdown.
“The
touchdown run at the end to seal it,” Gubrud said. “That was a pretty cool
moment in my lifetime.”
2. Eastern
Washington at UC Davis, 2017
There were
some nervy moments for EWU fans when the Eagles traveled to UC Davis in early
October 2017.
EWU scored
first with Gubrud hitting running back Sam McPherson over the middle for a
40-yard touchdown, but the Eagles relinquished the lead early in the second
quarter and trailed by as many as 11 points in the fourth. That’s when their
signal-caller took control, unleashing consecutive TD passes – a 70-yarder to
Nsimba Webster, a 6-yarder to Talolo Limu-Jones – to give EWU a three-point
buffer with nine minutes play.
But the
Aggies found their way back into the end zone to take a 38-34 lead with 4:45
left, putting the ball – and the game – in Gubrud’s hands. Eleven plays and one
gutsy fourth-down conversion later, EWU’s offense was back into the red zone.
Gubrud took a shotgun snap from the 6-yard line and sat in the pocket before
coolly throwing a pass to Nic Sblendorio near the far right pylon.
Eagles 41,
Aggies 38.
3. UC
Davis at Eastern Washington, 2016
The Aggies
saw Gubrud just twice, but anybody playing defense for Davis during that span
would say it was two times too many.
The Eagles
scored 104 points in those games and Gubrud was particularly productive,
completing 66 of 99 passes for 938 yards, 12 touchdowns and two interceptions.
He and
Kupp picked the Aggies apart in a strange game on the red turf in 2016. The
score indicates a wire-to-win for the Eagles, but the game was in limbo until
the third quarter. EWU opened with a 14-0 first quarter, but Davis followed
with a 23-0 second quarter to take a nine-point lead. No problem. Gubrud and
the Eagles came out firing in the third and the QB contributed five touchdowns
– four passing, one running – to a 49-point second half for the home team,
which won 63-30.
4. Eastern
Washington at Northern Arizona, 2018
Gubrud’s
senior season in Cheney was truncated by a toe injury, but the Eagles went 4-1
in the games he played in – the only loss coming at WSU – and none of those
were more exciting than a rare nonconference matchup between Big Sky rivals EWU
and NAU.
Gubrud and
the Eagles made the first quarter a sprint, and EWU found itself up 14-0 after
touchdowns to Jayce Gilder and Webster – the first coming at the 11:55 marker
and the second at 10:15. In a game that saw Gubrud and Webster hook up
frequently – seven times for 176 yards when all was said and done – the QB and
his speedy receiver connected for their second touchdown in the second quarter.
The second
half lacked the offensive fireworks of the first half, but the Eagles won 31-26
nonetheless and Gubrud completed 18 of 33 passes for 322 yards and four
touchdowns, while rushing six times for 88 yards.
5.
Northern Colorado at Eastern Washington, 2016
If he wins
WSU’s starting job, Gubrud would get one more crack at an old Big Sky rival
this fall when the Cougars host the Bears on Sept. 7. He was nearly perfect in
his debut against Northern Colorado – a 49-31 win for the Eagles that saw
Gubrud go 33-of-39 passing for 435 yards and five touchdowns.
EWU
trailed 17-14 at the break, but Gubrud’s first TD – a 29-yarder to Shaq Hill –
put the Eagles back in front and opened the floodgates. Gubrud went to Hill for
three more TDs and threw another to Sblendorio.
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