Month: October 2022

The growing power of college football coaches

  So I’m going to the Washington-Oregon State football game Friday night with a few other guys.   Looking forward to seeing the Husky quarterback, Michael Penix. And a host of UW receivers. And Oregon State’s Jack Colletto, the handiest football player in America.   But wait a minute....

Expand the hoops tournaments? Ugh

  You may have heard there’s a movement afoot among some college administrators to expand the 68-team NCAA basketball tournaments.   “The time is now,” said Jim Phillips, ACC commissioner and a member of the NCAA’s transformation committee. “ . . . I really would like us to expand.”...

21 years later, 18 innings for nothing

  Emerging from the horrors of the era of bad Mariner baseball, of Carlos Silva and Bill Bavasi and Chone Figgins, we trooped hopefully into T-Mobile Park Saturday, delivered from the notion that this playoff thing is for everybody but us.   I’d watched the Mariners as a writer...

College football, in search of itself

  Wisconsin’s dumbfounding firing of Paul Chryst the other day took me back to a day in Madison 44 years ago. I stood on the sideline at Camp Randall Stadium and in the last five minutes, watched an Oregon team in the second season of Rich Brooks’ stewardship burp...