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National Collegiate Athletic Association

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Spokane County Making Its Own Basketball Arena Decision

    Seattle isn't the only Washington city with basketball arena decision to be made. In Spokane, a vote yesterday may determine the fate of the Spokane Convention Center, and whether seats will be added to the Spokane Arena in an attempt to lure back NCAA men's basketball tournament games.

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    The 16 Sweetest Names of the 2012 NCAA Tournament

    The Washington Huskies did not score a date to Big Dance this year. The Pac-12 regular season champs had their bubble burst by the selection committee, which chose the likes of Iona, BYU, and even conference runner-up Cal over the disappointing Dawgs. Alas, the Golden Bears have a player named Bak B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Revenue Bowl: Let's See What Kind of Cash Cow Football is At UW and WSU

    Just 1 percent of the total campus revenues collected at Washington's two largest universities are generated by its football teams, which puts them in the same company as a few other top gridiron programs, including California, Michigan and Maryland, according to the Wall Street Journal.

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2011

    The Cynic's Guide to Husky Football: Everything That Could Possibly Go Wrong With UW's 2011 Season

    Max Waugh via Dawgman.com​The 2011 NCAA football season is upon us. Hallelujah and amen, let the tailgating begin. This is the year that the Pac-10 adds two schools (Utah and Colorado) and becomes the Pac-12, giving the conference as many teams as there are beers in a half case of Rainier and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Job Opening of the Day: University of Washington Women's Basketball Coach

    ​Are you a bachelor's-degree-holding individual with, let's say, "successful coaching experience in college basketball" and a "demonstrated ability to recruit highly skilled players"? Furthermore, do you feel that given a team of female college athletes, you could compile a win/loss ratio bett ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2010

    Pac-10 Is the Only Major Conference Without Cupcakes

    ​College football starts this week. (Hooray!) Unfortunately, that also means that in a couple of days we'll be confronted with the first of many inane sports columnists who insist the Pac-10 is somehow "soft." (Boo!) Where this pillowy stereotype originated isn't important. What is important i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2010

    Pac-10 Only Has Two In USA Today's Preseason Top 25

    ​How mediocre is Pac-10 football going to be this year? That we won't know for a while. But judging by the results of USA Today's preseason Top 25 poll, the country's coaches think the answer is "pretty damn mediocre." With only two teams listed (Oregon and Oregon State -- Washington is on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Pete Carroll Is Shocked by USC Sanctions

    ​Pete Carroll left USC right before the school got docked with the heaviest penatlies the NCAA had levied in over a decade-and-a-half. Everyone and their brother knew the school had violated the rules. Everyone but the guy who coached the Trojans while some shady shit went down. Mr. Carroll's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Missoula's Secret to Topping Seattle on Esquire's Best Bar List: Inviting Chris Jones to Guest Prof at Its University

    Great picks, Chris, but what about the Union Club?​As someone who used to visit Missoula and my friends at the University of Montana quite frequently in my twenties, I can say I was pleasantly surprised to see two Missoula bars, Charlie B's and the Oxford, make Esquire's list of America's best ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    USC Gets Two-Year Postseason Ban, Pete Carroll Got Out Just In Time

    ​When Pete Carroll left USC to come coach the Seattle Seahawks, the general impression was that he had barely escaped a house set to implode. The NCAA had been conducting an investigation of the Trojans for four years. An almost endless peek into shady recruiting habits that finally came to an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Oregon Football's Horrible Offseason Equals More Good News for Huskies

    All the hideous, Phil Knight-bought jerseys in the world can't save the Ducks from themselves.​Washington football needs all the help it can get. Thankfully, this offseason, the pigskin gods have bestowed many virtues upon the Huskies. First, the very mansome Jake Locker decided to stay in M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    Pac-10 Expansion Could Be a Boon to Seattle U

    Independent Seattle U has fared well against Big Sky opponents like Eastern Washington this year.​In this week's cover story, we chronicle the once-proud Seattle University men's basketball team's return to Division I after 30 years in the wilderness. Led by NBA prospect Chuck Garcia (pictured ... More >>

  • News

    February 10, 2010

    Free in the Key

    Seattle University's men's basketball team is back in Division I for the first time in 30 years. Will their uneven season be the start of a new legend?

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    Show Tunes Have No Place in Karaoke Contests, and Karaoke Contests Have No Place in Karaoke. But If Bars Are Going to Insist on Holding Karaoke Contests, Here's How They Should Do It.

    The rum-tum-tugger is a curious karaoke choice.​I participated in a karaoke contest last night at Wingmasters, as did the Karaoke Korrespondent, who will have more to say on this subject come Wednesday. I sang "Purple Rain," a song I've sung a hundred times, and butchered a verse or two, proba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2009

    Reader: You Wouldn't Work for Free, so Why Should Jake Locker?

    EA Sports, the NCAA and U-Dub all profit from this video game. But not Locker.​Reader and Daily Weekly editor emeritus Damon Agnos responds to Did Jake Locker Just Play His Last Game as a Washington Husky? Damon asks why Locker shouldn't get paid if his talents are so obviously enriching the N ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2009

    Riveting Roundball Returns to the Key

    Seattle U.’s making a case for its upstart basketball program.

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2009

    Sports' Strangest Streak Belongs to Wazzu

    The Cougars are so bad that Evans (r) could probably make the team.​The world is a large enough place that you've got to figure for every potential obsession, there's an obsessor. The Digital Age only makes this theory more plausible; if there can be Twitter and YouTube pages devoted to the me ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 25, 2009

    Apple Cup

    The Cougars are so bad that Evans (r) could probably make the team.​The world is a large enough place that you've got to figure for every potential obsession, there's an obsessor. The Digital Age only makes this theory more plausible; if there can be Twitter and YouTube pages devoted to the me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Basketball's Quietly Exciting Return to KeyArena, Courtesy of Seattle U

    Coach Dollar's Squire Park head-scratcher gets less itchy with every Redhawk win.​When former UW assistant and UCLA point guard Cameron Dollar decided to take the head coaching gig at Seattle University this past off-season, more than a few folks were perplexed. Dollar was the top assistant to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2009

    Holly Smith Bites Dust on the Next Iron Chef

    After narrowly escaping the jaws of defeat in the series premiere of The Next Iron Chef, Cafe Juanita's Holly Smith's lackluster bouillabaisse got her sent back to her Kirkland kitchen in round two. My money's on New York chef Jehangir Mehta to win it all, but I must say I'm disappointed with the fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2009

    Jake Locker Gets Some of the Money He's Owed, Though Not From the People Who Owe Him

    Wait 'til I get my money right​Husky quarterback Jake Locker makes the UW Athletic Department (and broadcasters and advertisers) a lot of money--or at least a lot of the little money the football program pulled in the last two woeful years. Now he'll finally make some money of his own. It's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2009

    Alternative Sports Roundup

    There's more to summer than the Mariners, Sounders, and Storm. This past weekend, the U.S. track and field championships were held in Eugene, Oregon. Former UW pole vaulter Brad Walker won the event with a leap of 18 feet, 10 and one-quarter inches. He's the American record holder in the pole vault, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2009

    The Return of Sir Mix-a-Lot, Brought to You by Burger King

    As SW proofreader Mike Mahoney noted, this commercial was probably the most exciting part of last night's NCAA championship game broadcast: Booty is booty, indeed. Mix, if you'll recall, recently paid a visit to SW's offices, where he paid homage to the backside of writer Erika Hobart. Finally, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2009

    Dancing With the Stars, KJR-Style

    Now that the NCAA tourney is over, Seattleites can turn their attention to a more politically incorrect bracket tradition: KJR's Bigger Dance, which pits 64 of the world's hottest women against one another in a quest to crown 2009's "Queen of the Hardwood." Speaking from experience, I can say it's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2009

    Ex-Dawg Bone New Coug Coach

    Replacing Tony Bennett as new head men's basketball coach at Washington State University: former Portland State helmsman and UW assistant Ken Bone. This could be bad news for the UW and Gonzaga ends of the burgeoning Husky-Zag-Cougar hoop rivalries, as the Pac-10 champs almost suffered an early-sea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    March Madness Selection Show: SPORT

    I am a fair weather fan when it comes to NCAA basketball; my brain just can't follow it all season. This Sunday is the selection show for the Division 1 tournament, starting at 3:00pm, and I will be watching with my laptop (don't judge) from SPORT (140 4th Avenue N., in the KOMO complex). A few wee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    Another Top-Rated Dawg Match

    Once again, the only scientific determination of game awesomeness--Ken Pomeroy's computer's FanMatch system--has a UW game ranked as the top ticket. Tonight's ASU/UW contest (8:00, FSN) has Pac-10 championship implications--if UW wins, the title remains theirs to lose. It also has NCAA tournament ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    Keep Your Pants on, Steve Sarkisian. At Least For Now.

    New Husky football head coach Steve Sarkisian just can't seem to stay out of trouble. Given the talmudic nature of the NCAA's rule book, the occasional violation is understandable. But Sark followed up his smoke machine/WWE intro fiasco with a recruiting meal that was open to the media--also a no-no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    Next up for the Dawgs: Arizona...Which Means This Guy

    Tonight, Lorenzo Romar's 1st place Huskies visit Tucson to play the formerly formidable Arizona Wildcats. But, really, we just wanted an excuse to revisit this picture of Arizona's Chase Budinger simultaneously channeling Larry Bird, Hugh Hefner, and the Spin Doctors' lead singer. As Deadspin's Unsi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    Thanks For the Vote, Bob!

    The Seattle Times' Bob Condotta, the pre-eminent chronicler of the Husky men's basketball team, is also the local AP voter for the national rankings. Up til now, he's refrained from including Romar's boys in his Top 25, despite their obvious awesomeness. But this week, after the team's sweep of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2008

    Afternoon Edition: Take It Away, Specialty's

    It's only a matter of time before the staff at Specialty's is forced to use one of these. Chant, employees, chant for your tips. Name drops from Fox. Love in politics, just like relationships, is best expressed by money. Cultivate your karma. Fall Out Boy is apparently a very hot ticket, which ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2008

    REVERBfest Lineup: The Sunset

    It's only a matter of time before the staff at Specialty's is forced to use one of these. Chant, employees, chant for your tips. Name drops from Fox. Love in politics, just like relationships, is best expressed by money. Cultivate your karma. Fall Out Boy is apparently a very hot ticket, which ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2008

    Afternoon Edition: No Vista for You!

    It's only a matter of time before the staff at Specialty's is forced to use one of these. Chant, employees, chant for your tips. Name drops from Fox. Love in politics, just like relationships, is best expressed by money. Cultivate your karma. Fall Out Boy is apparently a very hot ticket, which ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2008

    Weekend Review: Sir. Jagger, the King of Kong, and The Plague

    It's only a matter of time before the staff at Specialty's is forced to use one of these. Chant, employees, chant for your tips. Name drops from Fox. Love in politics, just like relationships, is best expressed by money. Cultivate your karma. Fall Out Boy is apparently a very hot ticket, which ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2008

    Weekend Review: Ice, Pitchers, and Episode IV.5

    It's only a matter of time before the staff at Specialty's is forced to use one of these. Chant, employees, chant for your tips. Name drops from Fox. Love in politics, just like relationships, is best expressed by money. Cultivate your karma. Fall Out Boy is apparently a very hot ticket, which ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2008

    Afternoon Edition: Apply at Your Own Risk

    It's only a matter of time before the staff at Specialty's is forced to use one of these. Chant, employees, chant for your tips. Name drops from Fox. Love in politics, just like relationships, is best expressed by money. Cultivate your karma. Fall Out Boy is apparently a very hot ticket, which ... More >>

  • News

    November 8, 2006

    The Last Boy Scout

    Husky football coach Tyrone Willingham keeps press and public at arm's length—which might be the best thing for his embattled program.

  • News

    March 22, 2006

    Sweet Clarity

    As the Husky men overachieve, they credit their coach's vision.

  • Film

    January 11, 2006

    Glory Road

    Opens Fri., Jan. 13, at Metro and others

  • News

    March 30, 2005

    We're No. 1!*

    * In curling.

  • News

    February 16, 2005

    The Fab Four

    The Sonics, Huskies, Zags, and Cougars: on the road to potential greatness.

  • News

    November 17, 2004

    Hoop Town

    The Sonics are hot, and isn't that a nice surprise?

  • News

    December 10, 2003

    Neuheisel Returns the Kick

    The fired Husky football coach says that he, among a number of athletic department gamblers, was singled out. He'll tell that to the Pac-10 next week.

  • News

    June 11, 2003

    The Gambler

    In Slick Rick, we got what we paid for.

  • Arts

    May 9, 2001

    Breakin' the rules

    Head-to-head competition brings dance into the sporting arena.

  • News

    March 14, 2001

    News Clips— Needle Exchange

    Head-to-head competition brings dance into the sporting arena.

  • News

    April 21, 1999

    Dawged by lawsuits

    UW seeks a good off-field defense, too.

  • News

    February 17, 1999

    The coach fumbles

    UW's Neuheisel commits 18 NCAA violations.

  • News

    December 9, 1998

    Temping fate

    How much longer can Microsoft get away with pushing the employment-law envelope?

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