An Evening with John Sauer
William and Mary College may be in Virginia, but John Sauer is definitely a northwest sports story. I grew up with this guy in Libby, Montana. We were college room-mates more than once at different colleges. I can personally attest to many of the challenges this man has overcome. He has come a long, long [...]
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The Old Wazu: Cougar Nation Awaits Next Year
The loss in the Apple Cup went like I said it would: our special teams let us down by allowing a blocked punt, and two turnovers on offense did us in. Give the Dawgs some credit though, they out-played us. How did we let them get seven sacks? How did we let them complete pass [...]
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The Old Wazu: It’s the Apple Cup, anything can happen
The special teams didn’t play as well as is generally expected, and four interceptions by the Cougar offense resulted in a loss to Utah on Saturday. Still the team did come back from ten points down with just over six minutes left in the game to take it into overtime in snowy Pullman. Apparently, Connor [...]
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The Old Wazu: Coug Bowl Hopes
Connor Halliday played well in his first significant minutes in non-mop-up duty. He was good. Good enough to earn Pac 12 offensive player of the week honors. And good enough to earn his first collegiate start. The win over my most hated former WSU coach was a total team effort. The team seemed to rally [...]
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It’s On All of Us, Coach
Of all the comments I’ve seen in the wake of the news about what happened at Penn State, I was most pleased to see what Barry Switzer had to say. I read his quotes in this fine article which I saw on MSNBC: http://www.csnphilly.com/pages/news_ncaa?blockID=592092 But it was this particular paragraph that especially impressed me: ” ‘I’ll [...]
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The Old Wazu: “…it’s time to pull out all the stops…”
We couldn’t get anything going offensively against Cal last Saturday, and our defense forgot how to tackle. When you give a lackluster performance like that you deserve to lose. I think it’s time to pull out all the stops and open it up on offense. Forget about balance between running and passing. Let’s see what [...]
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The Old Wazu: “Too many missed opportunities…”
Too many missed opportunities and poor play by the special teams resulted in another loss to Oregon last week. If the Lobster doesn’t throw two interceptions inside the red zone and we get points there instead of turnovers, we win. If the punt team doesn’t allow a block and the kick-off team doesn’t allow a [...]
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R.I.P. Ron Holmes. You were a great Husky.
Here’s the link to the Seattle Times’ story: Former Huskies defensive line star Ron Holmes dies http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/huskies/2016626751_holmes28.html
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The Old Wazu: Cougs Couldn’t Scavenge a Win
My friend sitting next to me pointed out the seagulls swooping down on Century Link Field with 3 minutes to go in the game. These scavengers would have their way, but the Cougars would not have their way in trying to scavenge a win from a team with a worse record. The Beavers dominated the [...]
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The Old Wazu: “…disappointed is an understatement.”
To say that I’m disappointed in our play against the Cardinal of Stanford is an understatement. Tuel was rusty. Our normally sure handed receivers dropped balls. We couldn’t get much of a ground game going. Luck had a field day with his tight ends in the second half. We allowed a 96 yard kick-off return [...]
Posted in The Old Wazu | Tags: Andrew Luck, Beavers, Cardinal, Cougars, Cougs, Mike Riley, Oregon State University, OSU, Pac 12 Football, Pac 12 North, Paul Wulff, Sports, Stanford University, Tuel, Washington State University, Wazu, WSU | 2 Comments
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