Month: January 2024

An old, familiar saboteur in DeBoer’s departure

  Things were going so deliriously well for University of Washington football fans.   They were playing for the national championship of big-time college football. They had an offense that was dazzling fans across the country. Their team had put fun in football. It was doing things heretofore unseen...

Don Read and Oregon: The way we were

  If you’ve stumbled into this space occasionally, you probably realize that the phenomenon of present-day Oregon football – the Ferrari leather in the meeting rooms, the kaleidoscopic uniform combinations, the largesse of Phil Knight – wasn’t a forever thing at the UO.   That came to mind the...

UW perfectly willing to max out all assets

  On the night of Oct. 28, Washington’s unblemished season hung in the balance at, of all places, Stanford. Quarterback Ashton Daniels spearheaded a Cardinal offense good for 495 yards, and now, on fourth-and-two at the Stanford 28, the hosts hatched a trick play with 3:20 left, trailing 35-33....