TUCSON, Ariz. — Abdul Gaddy looked down and his heel was just a touch over the sideline on the first play of the second half. The Huskies were trying to run a simple dribble handoff to get the offense started, but they committed a turnover.
After finishing 31 seconds from the NFC Championship Game, the Seattle Seahawks aren't standing pat. This week marks the first significant step for the Seahawks to find some key pieces to help bring a Super Bowl victory to Seattle – the start of the annual NFL scouting combine.
Washington is almost at the end of the road and it’s running out of pavement.
Cal Bears men’s basketball coach Mike Montgomery has pushed his team to the fore of Pacific-12 Conference talk, just not in the way he intended.
The stumble has been an extended one for Washington.
The first game against Oregon State was the second of the Huskies’ head-scratchers.
Remember way back when the University of Washington men’s basketball team was the regular-season champion of the Pacific-12 Conference and Lorenzo Romar was the Pac-12 coach of the year?
Add another loss.
The muddled conference picture has Pacific-12 coaches touting depth as opposed to mediocrity.
Washington men’s basketball coach Lorenzo Romar was succinct Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES — The men’s basketball season is drifting away for Washington, and the tone of postgame talk is shifting from patient to urgent.
When Washington coach Lorenzo Romar was growing up in Compton, Calif., he and his crew preferred to hop in a car and cruise for places to play hoop rather than attend the usual weekend parties.
A year has passed since his wife, Jean, died, and Pat Licari still is cautious when trying to compress the memories into stories, or the feelings into words. There are no timetables for recovery from such things, like those on which coaches sometimes rely: six weeks for a sprained ankle, a month for a pulled hamstring. Perhaps it takes a lifetime to cope with the loss of a vibrant and healthy 45-year-old wife -- a mother of two, who wasn't just a coach and educator at Federal Way High School, but an academic innovator whose programs elevated the life trajectory of countless students.
LOS ANGELES — Losing at the buzzer to UCLA on Thursday night was pain enough for Washington. Seeing leading scorer C.J. Wilcox strapped into a walking boot afterward added to the damage.
Ten seconds after joy came heartbreak for the Washington Huskies on Thursday in a 59-57 loss to UCLA at Pauley Pavilion.
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