Leach assails his team’s attitude after losing a 17-point lead in the final seven minutes against Colorado, previously assumed to be the Pac-12’s weakest team. Not anymore.
Author: Adam Lewis
Adam Lewis
An alumnus of Washington State University's Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, Lewis is a sports journalist working at Sportspress Northwest. He spent his first three years in Pullman at the school newspaper writing his weekly column "Backrow Banter" while covering the WSU baseball team. His opinion piece in the fall of 2011 on Cougars football, "The Campus That Cried Wulff" received attention from media outlets throughout the Northwest. The column called for the immediate dismissal of former WSU head coach Paul Wulff. With a family background in the newspaper industry, Lewis's passion for objective sports journalism wins out over passion for his favorite teams. Lewis graduated cum laude from WSU in May. His senior year on the Palouse was spent covering Mike Leach's tumultuous first year coaching the Cougars. At Sportspress Northwest, Lewis will help cover the Storm, Mariners and Seahawks before returning to Pullman in August to cover WSU football's fall camp.
Sophomore has the numbers over senior Tuel, but Washington State coach Mike Leach doesn’t want to give away any plot developments before Cougs’ game against Colorado.
After two games, Washington State’s football team has scored as many touchdowns (three) as the Cougars had taken off the scoreboard by holding penalties. The main culprit? WSU’s offensive line. A pair of blatant holding calls that negated two victory-sealing touchdown plays during the Cougars’ final drive in Saturday’s 24-20 win against Eastern Washington didn’t
The 24-20 win over Eastern allowed Washington State to avoid losing to a Big Sky Conference team for the first time since joining the Pac-10 in 1978.
At six-feet, five-inches and several biscuits more than 300 pounds, Joe Salave’a still looks every bit the nose tackle that pancaked over-matched offensive linemen during his nine-year NFL career.
Cougars have found a second deep threat, Gabe Marks, to complement returning star Marquess Wilson in new coach Mike Leach’s bombs-away air attack.
The Mike Leach verbal lash is a mighty thing. Mum on injuries as well as player personnel decisions through the first week of fall camp, Leach erupted during an intense scrimmage between the starting offense and defense in Martin Stadium Thursday. The profanity-laced, five-minute tirade directed at the offense ground practice to a halt as
Connor Halliday’s liver injury last fall kept him out of spring ball and put him behind Jeff Tuel, but that doesn’t preclude starting again if Tuel (two wins) falters.
After two years of unproductive play, former Skyline High star Gino Simone is thrilled with coaching change that appears ready to let the slimmed-down WR shine.
Any lingering critics who feel that Washington State University football coach Mike Leach will oversee an undisciplined program may now proceed to the nearest Whitman County waste treatment center. They’re full of it.