Washington State Cougars NCAA Football News

Eric Block, the former Bellevue High quarterback who was part of two state-championship teams with the Wolverines, has decided to give up football at Washington State after a battle with ulcerative colitis, a disease of the large intestine.

Analyzing the downfall of the Washington State football program is somewhat akin to analyzing the impact of oxygen on earth.

Everyone wants to drive the purple-colored Camaro this week. However an Apple Cup victory can be transported back to the Trufant household in Tacoma.

Washington State coach Paul Wulff, right, congratulates Washington coach Steve Sarkisian after the Apple Cup.

Washington State men's basketball team has played six decent teams thusfar. The Cougs have won all six games and a tournament championship.

"It's time to step forward and face some good competition," said Coach Ken Bone Tuesday morning during his news conference.

The very young Cougs have played very good basketball to begin a new season. With a new coach, a new system and only one upper classman, few would have projected WSU to completely dominate a good San Diego Torero club in the Great Alaska Shootout championship game...

Washington State's dreadful football season is over, and now attention turns to the future.

Sunday afternoon Washington State football Coach Paul Wulff paused to reflect on the outcome of the Apple Cup and the performance of the Cougs.

Listening to Coach Wulff respond to media questions, one didn't need the skills of a psychic to either read his mind or peer into the future of Cougar football.

This has been dreadful season for the Cougs. Mercifully, the final curtain has come down on a tragedy seemingly penned by Sophocles.

Greek tragedy? No, the 2009 football season for WSU was all too real...

Washington Huskies had just enough to dominate Washington State for a 30-0 victory in the Apple Cup.

How does that work? Just enough to dominate?

Washington had one player suited up in purple and gold who was the difference-maker.

Jake Locker...

The Washington State Cougars, soundly defeated in the Apple Cup, did not return to Pullman to re-hash the lowlights of their 1-11 season.

Perhaps it was as much a way of torture as it was motivation. The memory is long after disheartening defeats - and Washington's overtime loss in last year's Apple Cup certainly qualified as such.

Dan Wagner isn't exactly the first option at quarterback for WSU coach Paul Wulff.

The outcome of the Apple Cup might depend in large part on the play of Washington State's beleaguered defense.

The lowly Washington State Cougars are on their third quarterback through three quarters of the Apple Cup.

APPLE CUP: This year's edition of storied rivalry has Huskies heavily favored, not that either team cares TODD MILLES; The News Tribune Published November 28, 2009 Comments Maybe adjustments during the bye week, the return to Husky Stadium and the down-to-earth attitude of coach Steve Sarkisian will do the University of Washington football team ...

Washington State at Washington , 3:30 p.m. PT, Line: Washington by 24 1/2. Series Record: Washington leads 64-31-6. Last Meeting: 2008, Washington State, 16-13 2OT.

Associated Press file Washington State won last year's Apple Cup in double overtime, part of a recent trend that has seen a lot of close results in the rivalry game.

There is just one game left this year for the Washington State Cougars. But it's a biggie, the Apple Cup against the Washington Huskies Saturday in Seattle.

The Washington State football team will celebrate Thanksgiving in Moscow, Idaho.

The Washington State defense ranks last in the nation, but only six players in the Pacific-10 Conference have been credited with more tackles than Cougar safety Xavier Hicks.

In 2008 the Apple Cup served as the punching bag for the national media, a matchup of woeful programs battling for residency of the Pac-10 basement.