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Jake Locker's fine with a little bit of time off. But only to a point. As he did the previous two days, Locker spent Wednesday's practice throwing on the side, resting a deep right thigh bruise suffered in Saturday's 43-19 loss to Oregon.

From the opening kickoff, we knew this was going to be a hard year to predict for the Washington Huskies.

Wacky doesn't begin to describe Steve Sarkisian's first eight games as a head coach.

You know the dude: smart, funny, great-looking, utterly devoid of love handles, doesn't need aluminum-tinged deodorant to shut down the pit that won't quit in a humid bar, genuinely listens to people rather than waiting to talk, loves camping and Sarah McLachlan.

Steve Coll is the Washington Huskies latest, brainiest fairweather fan. Steve Coll is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and journalist.

Don Ryan / The Associated Press Oregon head coach Chip Kelly looks to the scoreboard during the Ducks 42-3 rout of then No.

After a pathetic effort on Saturday against Oregon, it's clear the Washington Huskies will have a very tough time making it to a bowl game this year.A Currently with three wins, Washington will need win three of their last four to be bowl-eligible. With the way the defense played and the offense made mistakes in the red-zone, this is going to be a ...

"They destroyed us on special teams," said head coach Steve Sarkisian. It was more than just the special teams.

They're the last team in the Pac-10 to get their bye week, and for the Washington Huskies, it could be argued that it's coming at the best possible time.

It's amazing what a bye week can do for a college football team. No matter how any team is performing throughout the course of the season, each team works hard regardless, and thus deserves a week off to rest and recuperate for the next game.

Overtime for the second time in three weeks seemed so imminent for Washington. Then came a blown coverage that allowed Arizona State's Danny Sullivan to find Chris McGaha for a 50-yard touchdown with 5 seconds left to give the Sun Devils a 24-17 win on Saturday night, a harsh blow to the Huskies' hopes of getting back to a bowl game for the first ...

I always thought it was a given that the Cougars were the team most hated by Dawgs fans.

Fifteen years ago this week Oregon's Kenny Wheaton intercepted Washington's Damon Huard and sprinted 97 yards for a clinching touchdown, a moment that is still revered by all Ducks and rekindled a rivalry that was a purple-and-gold pounding for decades.

Mark Mulligan / The Herald A UW cheerleader holds up a defense sign during the Huskies' 16-13 upset of USC on Sept.

He doesn't quite have author Robert Ludlum on speed dial not yet, anyway but even Washington Huskies football coach Steve Sarkisian knows 2009 already has had enough bizarre late-game suspense to last for years to come.

Following a week off, the conference-leading Oregon Ducks get back to work this weekend, when they take on the Washington Huskies in a Pac-10 tussle in the Pacific Northwest.

Only one sports fan in Seattle isn't thinking about Jake Locker's future. That's Washington quarterback Jake Locker.

The weird endings are piling up for Washington. Last Saturday Washington was on the losing end of a last-minute, game-changing play.

I have my opinion but I was curious what everyone else thought. First of all please don't vote if you have never watched Jake Locker of the University of Washington play.

The Washington football staff isn't turning to senior fullback Paul Homer much for running or receiving.

Almost forty-eight hours later, the University of Washington football team was no more forthcoming about what went wrong on the biggest blunder of the 2009 season.

Overtime for the second time in three weeks seemed so imminent for Washington. Then came a blown coverage that allowed Arizona State's Danny Sullivan to find Chris McGaha for a 50-yard touchdown with 5 seconds left to give the Sun Devils a 24-17 win on Saturday night, a harsh blow to the Huskies' hopes of getting back to a bowl game for the first ...

With under a minute remaining in a tie ballgame and all three timeouts intact, the Washington Huskies screwed up.

The two star receivers from Saturday night's football game between the University of Washington and Arizona State put cracks in the theory that practice makes perfect.

Washington's win over Arizona last weekend highlighted a potential problem with the Huskies going forward.

Danny Sullivan threw a 50-yard touchdown pass to Chris McGaha with five seconds to play Saturday night to give Arizona State a stunning 24-17 victory over Washington.

Jennifer Buchanan / The Herald Washington wide receiver Jermaine Kearse catches a two-point conversion pass in the fourth quarter of last Saturday's 36-33 victory over Arizona.

TEMPE, Ariz. - In a proverbial sense, Steve Sarkisian has fresh legs. The 35-year-old head coach of the University of Washington football team hasn't been around long enough to have any gray hairs, a grizzled voice or a bevy of stories about the good ol' days.

Associated Press Washington's Mason Foster found himself in the right place after coming up with the game-winning interception for a touchdown against Arizona last Saturday.

Arizona State and Washington each have three victories. That's about where the similarities between them ends.

The University of Washington will take on Arizona State this weekend without the services of sophomore receiver Jordan Polk.

Having already signed with a Major League Baseball team, University of Washington quarterback Jake Locker looks like a high pick of a future NFL draft as well.

There are certain times during a season when games seem winnable and later, teams find out that they are not as good as they once thought.

Colleagues across the Pac-10 were sympathizing with Arizona coach Mike Stoops over the freak misplay that doomed the Wildcats against Washington.

Associated Press Washington's Kavario Middleton catches a pass for a touchdown against Arizona during the fourth quarter of th Huskies' 36-33 victory over Arizona on Sunday.

If Washington hadn't gotten the quirkiest of bounces to beat Arizona, talk of returning to a bowl game would be considered outlandish and inconceivable.

Arizona wide receiver Delashaun Dean says he will never wear those football shoes again, not after that weird play against the Washington Huskies.

As recently as eight days ago, University of Washington football coach Steve Sarkisian was waxing on about the benefits of lessening the workload on starting running back Chris Polk.

For the most part, the red zone has been the blackout zone for offenses facing the Washington Huskies.

Washington never seemed right tonight. From the onset they played sloppy but still came off the field with a 14-10 lead at the half.

Devin Aguilar seems to like playing at Husky Stadium, and not just because the University of Washington sophomore has yet to play anywhere else this season.

Washington's Mason Foster intercepted a deflected pass off the foot of Arizona's Delashaun Dean and returned the carom 37 yards for a touchdown with 2:37 left, and the Huskies rallied with two touchdowns in the final three minutes to stun the Wildcats 36-33 on Saturday night.

Perusing the top 32 pro prospects for the NFL yields a dazzling list of talented players at top programs around the country.

More miles separate Washington and Arizona - roughly 1,200 - than any other Pac-10 schools.

Perhaps the loss to Notre Dame on Saturday seemed tougher than all the other losses over the last few years because the Huskies were so close to pulling it off.

No more rest for the Wildcats. From here on out, ita TMs go time. Over the past four weeks, the Arizona Wildcats have become the authority on airline travel.A With roughly 7,500 miles of flight travel this season , the Wildcats are the most traveled team in the Pac-10. A Arriving the night before the game, the Wildcats are given time to unwind from ...

One of the best games of this past weekend featured the cardiac Notre Dame Fighting Irish versus the rapidly improving Washington Huskies, including three goal line stands and an overtime finish.A Draftniks tuning into the game received a treat in a battle of two of the nation's top quarterback prospects in Jimmy Clausen and Jake Locker.A Entering ...

The scene couldn't have been planned any better had it come from Steven Spielberg's storyboard.

Besides their purple-blooded bond, little connects Jim Mora and Jake Locker. One is a fiery, 47-year-old, defensive-minded NFL coach; the other is a soft-spoken, 21-year-old, athletic college quarterback.

Keeping promises, it turns out, is not one of Steve Sarkisian's best personality traits.

For the Washington Huskies, Saturday was a game of what should have been. The Dawgs tied the game with seconds left in regulation but they could have won it a number of times before as they had a number of chances to score inside the Notre Dame one yard line.

Given the diversity of postgame entertainment options these days, the phrase has fallen into disuse, but football coaches once praised remarkable effort from certain players by saying: "He didn't leave anything for the dance." Saturday, in a wet and weepy, soul-crushing defeat at Notre Dame, Washington quarterback Jake Locker clearly had nothing ...

Au natural. Or so he says... In what can only be described as the Most Important Journalistic Event of the Decade, The Daily Weekly made a visit to Montlake this morning to follow-up on a rumor: That University of Washington starting quarterback and all-around B.M.O.C. Jake Locker is a regular at a local body-waxing hot-spot. Saturday's loss at ...

I couldn't believe my bloodshot eyes. But there he was, drinking alone in the bar at the Emerald Valley Golf Club on Saturday afternoon -- the man, the legend, the Drill.

Arizona's star tight end, Rob Gronkowski, has not played a down. The Wildcats changed quarterbacks after three games.

Washington free safety Justin Glenn will miss the rest of the season after breaking his right fibula and tearing some ligaments in his ankle in the Huskies' loss to Notre Dame.

Robert Hughes scored on a 1-yard run in overtime and safeties Harrison Smith and Kyle McCarthy jarred the ball loose from Washington receiver D'Andre Goodwin near the goal line on 4th-and-19 as Notre Dame beat Washington 37-30 Saturday in South Bend, Ind.

Posted 1 hour, 4 minutes ago at 10:45 am. NOTRE DAME, Ind. a ' Another game, another close call for Notre Dame.

The fact that it was one of the most amazing games of this or any other college football season probably didn't make the Washington Huskies feel much better as they walked off the field at Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

Notre Dame begins a three-game home stand against the Washington Huskies this weekend.

Firing Tyrone Willingham isn't the only thing Washington and Notre Dame have in common.

Seems most replies to this article are extremely critical of the writer. Why? And if you're going to be that critical why not write a better article yourself and post it here.

So in case no one was clear on this , Washington quarterback Jake Locker is a bit of a problem, according to Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis.

Linebacker E.J. Savannah watched Washington's practice from the sideline again on Thursday while battling a foot injury, the clearest evidence yet that the team's second-leading tackler won't play Saturday at Notre Dame.

When redshirt freshman Justin Glenn showed up for a University of Washington football practice on Sept.

Less than 11 minutes into last Saturday's game against USC, another season was beginning to run away from the University of Washington football team.