All you need to know about the caliber of Pacific-12 Conference softball is that the Washington Huskies finished eighth in the nine-team league and are ranked 18th in the nation and seeded first in the NCAA’s Seattle Regional.
An Alabama fan was charged Thursday with sexual battery after authorities say he was captured on video performing a simulated sex act on an unconscious LSU fan after the BCS championship game.
Pacific Lutheran, winner of the NCAA Division III regional tournament in Texas, will open against Luther College of Iowa in the first round of the College Softball World Series in Salem, Va.
Big Ten administrators could see a national championship game being played in cities that aren't necessarily traditional hosts.
TYLER, Texas – When Stacey Hagensen’s drop ball froze the opposing batter and was called for the final strike – the Pacific Lutheran University ace hesitated.
The president of Florida State University says moving the athletic program from the Atlantic Coast Conference to the Big 12 has several drawbacks to be considered.
Bill O'Brien has quickly put to rest any notion that he plans to stick around as long as the last Penn State football coach.
TYLER, Texas – Make no mistake, the Pacific Lutheran University softball team is in the catbird seat at the NCAA Division III regional championships.
Erin Van Nostrand has no idea how to dissect the late-game psyche of her Pacific Lutheran fastpitch team.
The night before in team meetings, coach Erin Van Nostrand advised her Pacific Lutheran University players to try and string together base hits, and not try for home runs against Huntingdon (Ala.) College in the first round of the NCAA Division III regional softball championships.
Northwest Conference softball tournament champion Pacific Lutheran was awarded the No. 2 seed, and will open against seventh-seeded Huntingdon (Ala.) College in the first round of the NCAA Division III regional tournament in Tyler, Texas.
Tastes of the East Coast are badly missed. If it were up to Erin Van Nostrand, her perfect world would consist of New York-style pizza, lounging on warm New England beaches and taking in a slew of Boston Red Sox baseball games.
Saints coach praises 29-year-old athlete Brandon Moore for his ‘calming influence.’
Bowl Championship Series officials trimmed the fat Thursday.
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Bowl Championship Series officials are hammering out the details of the future of college football’s postseason. They want to have the choices whittled down to two or three.
With a little imagination, you can see the new Husky Stadium. Sure, right now it’s just a dirt hole filled with trucks, cranes and materials with areas of concrete and steel. But it’s easy to envision the new football administration offices, the state-of-the-art weight room and expanded locker rooms.
Chris Polk said he developed his relentless running style while watching boyhood idol Emmitt Smith grind out extra yards for the Dallas Cowboys.
Running a lap around the track in front of extolling football fans never felt so satisfying.
For the first time this spring, Huskies football fans will get a chance to see their team in action and watch the revamped coaching staff work in person.
Knoxville, Tenn. – Pat Summitt, who won more games than anyone in NCAA college basketball history, stepped down Wednesday as coach of the Tennessee Volunteers women’s team, less than eight months after revealing she had early-onset dementia.
Josh Shirley exploded off the line, blew past Ben Riva, didn’t slow down when Riva grabbed him by the jersey and shoulder pads, and kept on going toward an unsuspecting Keith Price.
While hardly surprising, this qualifies as news mostly because it’s packaged differently with a few fresh numbers. And it also makes Oregon look bad, which often seems appreciated in these parts.
The Washington Huskies have added frontcourt help for the 2013-14 season.
Bishop Sankey won’t be the next Chris Polk.
It’s not as if the Washington Huskies didn’t have questions about their offensive line coming into spring camp.
Derrick Brown surely broke a few noses tossing a football or even a baseball around as a teenager.
Seattle – Jimmie Dougherty isn’t nitpicking Kasen Williams. But, the wide receivers coach for the Huskies knows UW’s sophomore man-child isn’t a finished product. Sure, Williams looks like an NFL player compared to his receiving cohorts at spring practice, standing 6-foot-3 and weighing 220 pounds.
The Washington Huskies announced the signing of the first of three expected recruits for the 2012-13 basketball season.
New University of Washington defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox and linebackers coach Peter Sirmon didn’t have a tough sell when they asked Taz Stevenson to switch positions.
The news went from bad to worse for Colin Porter and the Washington Huskies.
Arkansas fired coach Bobby Petrino on Tuesday, saying he engaged in reckless behavior that included hiring his mistress and then intentionally misleading his bosses about everything from their relationship to her presence at the motorcycle accident that ultimately cost him his job.
It’s easy to get caught up in all that Austin Seferian-Jenkins can do at tight end.
TAMPA, Fla. – Steven Whitney scored twice as Boston College beat Ferris State, 4-1, on Saturday night for its fifth NCAA hockey title and third in five seasons.
After assembling a coaching staff that was the talk of the offseason in the Pacific-12 Conference, Washington coach Steve Sarkisian’s revamped, retooled and re-energized staff was doing all the talking on Friday.
In the past two days, the Washington Huskies have watched their top two scorers, Terrence Ross (16.4 points per game) and Tony Wroten (16.0 ppg), leave for the NBA draft.
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