Mike Leach
– Washington State Head Football Coach interviewed 2/21/2019 on KXL radio
Portland by John Canzano, Oregonian sports columnist.
Coach
talks about flip flops, the class he is teaching at WSU, Hemingway, and how he
felt about WSU football team performance last season.
Link to
audio file:
https://soundcloud.com/kxtg-the-bald-faced-truth/bft-interview-mike-leach-11
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WSU
announces Mike Leach class on football, insurgency warfare will take place this
spring
UPDATED:
Fri., Feb. 22, 2019, 6 p.m.
Spokesman-Review
By Kip
Hill
It’s
official: Mike Leach is going from head coach to head of the classroom this
spring.
Washington
State University’s Academic Outreach and Innovation announced Friday that the
application process would begin next week for the course co-taught by Leach and
Spokane County Treasurer Michael Baumgartner, with a blending of insurgent
warfare and football strategy. Selected WSU students who attend will not be
offered course credit and their performance will not show up on their official
transcripts.
“One thing
that we’ve really tried to emphasize is that this is a nonacademic,
extracurricular lecture series,” said Dave Cillay, vice president for academic
outreach and innovation at the university.
The
application process will open Tuesday and last for five days, Cillay said.
Students will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis, so those
interested should be prepared to submit their applications early. Forty
students will be accepted for the course, which will hold evening sessions
March 27, April 3, April 10 and April 17 in Pullman. A final session
summarizing the content of the course will be held April 23 at The Spark:
Innovation Hub on the Pullman campus. It will be free and open to the public,
as well as livestreamed on the internet.
“We
anticipate that’s probably going to be the most well-attended aspect of the
last session,” Cillay said of the stream. “But we will have a room that seats
close to 300.”
Leach had
been teasing the course on Twitter over the past several months, and had
initially indicated the final session might only be open to donors to the WSU
Athletic Fund. Cillay said the university made the decision to open the session
to the public to maximize attendance.
“We’re
going to have a number of students, we imagine, that are going to apply who
didn’t get into the live session,” Cillay said.
The
course’s subject matter blends the expertise of Leach, who popularized the “Air
Raid” offense that uses spread formations and speedy players to combat
traditional football schemes, and Baumgartner, who worked for the U.S. State
Department in Iraq during the troop surge and as a counternarcotics officer in
Afghanistan.
The course
will wrap up three days after the scheduled Crimson and Gray Game in Pullman,
the traditional culmination of the spring football season.
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WSU
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL at Colorado in Boulder on Friday night, Feb. 22
(Next game
in Salt Lake vs Utah with tipoff at 11am Pacific Sunday, Feb. 24)
FINAL
SCORE: Colorado 72, WSU 61
Colorado
led 57-54 at the end of three quarters of play.
WSU
trailed 39-35 at halftime.
(Slideshow of photos from CU Live Stream of game)
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WSU MEN’S
BASKETBALL from WSU Sports Info
COUGARS GO
FOR SECOND WEEKEND SWEEP OF THE SEASON: After defeating Colorado, 76-74,
Wednesday, Washington State men’s basketball (11-15, 4-9) looks to wrap up its
second weekend sweep as it hosts Utah (14-12, 8-6), Saturday, Feb. 23 at 5 p.m.
at Beasley Coliseum.
• That
game will be televised live on Pac-12 Network as Guy Haberman (play-by-play),
and Eldridge Recasner (analyst) have the call.
• All
season long, Cougar basketball can be heard on the Cougar IMG Sports Radio
Network with the Voice of the Cougars, Matt Chazanow on the call.
• Live
stats are also available at www.wsucougars.com.
COUGARS
VERSUS UTES:
•
Saturday’s matchup marks the 29th all-time meeting between Washington State and
Utah, as the Utes hold a 24-4 advantage.
• Utah has
won the last 10 meetings in the series, scoring 81 or more points in seven of
the 10 games, as each of the 10 WSU losses were decided by an average of 16.1
points.
• Utah won
the first meeting of the season, 88-70, Jan. 12 at Salt Lake City, as the
Cougars trailed by as many as 30 points in the game.
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Coug Tennis
battles pair of familiar foes Friday in Pullman
No. 15 WSU
will take on BYU, Seattle hoping to extend winning streak
By TY
EKLUND, Evergreen February 22, 2019
The wait
is over as Cougar tennis returns home to host a doubleheader Friday in
Hollingbery Fieldhouse.
The newly
ranked No. 15 Cougars (8-1) will battle Brigham Young University and Seattle
University.
Head Coach
Lisa Hart said she expects teams to get after the Cougars more as they continue
to rack up the victories this season.
“Even when
we’re favored to win or think we’re supposed to win,” Hart said, “we need to
make sure we have that same intensity we’ve had.”
Currently
on a two-match winning streak, the Cougars will first play BYU (3-1) at noon.
BYU has less playing experience this year compared to WSU. They’ve only
competed in four matches while the Cougars have taken part in nine.
“It’s
better to have more matches to get used to the … matches, the pressure, the
adrenaline,” senior Tiffany Mylonas said. “If they only have four matches, they
still don’t really know how it is.”
BYU also
comes into the matchup on a two-match winning streak and boasts a 1-1 road
record. This is BYU’s first match in nearly two weeks.
WSU is
11-6 all-time against BYU and the Cougars defeated them 4-0 in their most
recent match last season.
Following
the Cougars match against BYU, they will take on Seattle (4-4) at 5 p.m. The
Redhawks recently lost 4-3 to Montana State on Sunday.
WSU is
Seattle’s second and last match against a Pac-12 team this season. The Redhawks
already lost 7-0 to UW to start off the year.
WSU and
Seattle have both faced Eastern Washington this season. The Cougars swept the
Eagles 7-0 in Pullman in their second match this year while the Redhawks fell
6-1 to EWU on Feb. 2.
Last
season, the Cougars beat the Redhawks 4-0 and WSU leads the all-time series
12-1.
Despite
having success against their two opponents in the past, Hart said the Cougars
need to be prepared for anything.
“I think
our focus has to be every day is a new day,” Hart said. “So maybe a team didn’t
play well one day. They could be a totally different team now.”
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WSU Women’s
golf escapes Pullman snow for the desert
Cougars
compete in Westbrook Invitational in Peoria, Arizona on Sunday
By SIGMUND
SEROKA, Evergreen
February
22, 2019
WSU
women’s golf will travel to Peoria, Arizona this weekend to take part in the
Westbrook Invitational.
The
invitational will consist of 15 teams and competition begins Sunday with a
36-hole tournament and ends Monday with an 18-hole round.
Senior
Madison Odiorne said she has had enough of the weather here in Pullman and
couldn’t be happier to get outside and play in warmer weather.
“We
prepared well over the winter with indoor facilities and our technology here,”
Odiorne said, “but we’re very excited to get out there and play in nice
weather.”
The
Cougars have competed once since the beginning of the semester when they
battled Colorado State on Feb. 10 in Las Vegas in a head-to-head preseason
matchup.
WSU won
the event by 24 strokes after the top four scores from each team were added up.
Odiorne
led the Cougars and all players shooting a 76 (+4) in the event. Freshman Amy
Chu finished with a 78 (+6) and redshirt sophomore Emily Baumgart and junior
Marie Lund-Hansen each shot a 79 (+7).
The
tournament in Peoria will be nothing new for the Cougars, but it will be more
challenging than their preseason head-to-head matchup with the Rams.
Head Coach
Kelli Kamimura said competing against a large field is typical for the team,
and it forces them to focus on every little detail.
“It
emphasizes what we have to do as a team to play in the moment and do our best,”
Kamimura said.
Odiorne
said she isn’t too worried about making the transition from training indoors in
Pullman to grass outdoors in the desert.
She also
said WSU is traveling to Peoria a day earlier than needed to get a feel for
playing on grass again and to fine tune a few things before the tournament.
Both days
of competition begin at 8:30 a.m. for the Cougars, and the results will be
posted online at wsucougars.com when the tournament has been completed.
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