ELLENSBURG -- Central Washington University's Katharine Lotze, a Kiona-Benton graduate, was named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference as Female Athlete of the Week for track and field.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Gonzaga coach Mark Few let his players sleep in Saturday, and the extra rest wound up providing some energy down the stretch.

PULLMAN -- Washington State had lost three straight games and was slipping toward the basement of the weak Pac-10, so post DeAngelo Casto decided to seek some extra practice this week.

RICHLAND -- Paul Wulff was scheduled to speak Friday night at around 8 o'clock.

MISSOULA, Mont. -- University of Montana coach Robin Pflugrad said former Oregon defensive lineman Tonio Celotto has joined the team.

SPOKANE -- Portland and No. 17 Gonzaga opened with a desultory 12 minutes of play, with both teams missing shots, turning the ball over and deadlocked at 15 points.

RICHLAND -- A Night with Cougar Football will be held at 6 p.m. today at Meadow Springs Country Club.

PULLMAN -- Ty Abbott scored 18 points and had nine rebounds as Arizona State beat Washington State 81-70 on Thursday.

SEATTLE -- Quincy Pondexter and his Washington Huskies knew they'd get back in the Pac-10 race to truly defend their conference title.

Washington State University moved aggressively to shore up its offensive line and receiver corps as its football recruits were announced Wednesday.

SEATTLE -- Garrett Lever scored 13 points and Aaron Broussard added 10 as Seattle defeated Eastern Washington 68-62 Monday night.

SEATTLE -- Freshman Reggie Moore was dunking on, flexing at and taunting his hometown Huskies.

SEATTLE -- Over the past six seasons, the Apple Cup of basketball has presented a test of wills.

PULLMAN -- Sami Whitcomb scored a career-high 32 points as Washington beat Washington State 76-70 in overtime Friday.

PULLMAN — Washington State University announced today that its football team will play all six of its 2010 home games on campus at Martin Stadium.

CHENEY -- Taking a cue from Boise State's famous blue turf, the Eastern Washington football program is planning to install red turf on its field in Cheney.

SPOKANE -- Washington State basketball coach Ken Bone used to be an assistant at Washington, but he won't feel any conflicted loyalties when the two rivals meet for the first time this season on Saturday.

SPOKANE -- The experts who assumed No. 13 Gonzaga was in for a rebuilding year did not count on freshman Elias Harris.

BOISE, Idaho -- Kinzi Poteet (Grandview) was named player of the game by her Boise State University women's basketball coach in a 73-67 victory over Wyoming on Dec. 31.

SPOKANE -- Elias Harris is quickly growing comfortable with the college game.

LOS ANGELES -- Washington State guard Reggie Moore desperately wanted to sweep the Los Angeles schools to generate momentum and take a three-game winning streak into next week's game at Washington.

LOS ANGELES -- Washington State coach Ken Bone wasn't overly concerned after sharpshooter Nikola Koprivica had a quiet first half.

LA GRANDE, Ore. -- Offensive lineman Kevin Biddle (Richland) concluded his college football career at Eastern Oregon University by being named first-team All-Frontier Conference.

PULLMAN -- Hermiston's Mykael Bothum and Benton City's Whitney Leavitt won events Saturday at the WSU Open indoor track meet in Pullman.

PULLMAN -- Big leads don't mean much at Washington State.

Someone has to win the Pac-10, right?

While Gonzaga rose two spots to No. 17 in The Associated Press basketball poll released Monday, Washington fell out of the Top 25 after two more losses extended its Pac-10 skid to three games.

SEATTLE -- Steve Sarkisian appears perfectly content in the Pacific Northwest.

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Washington State picked the wrong day to have its worst offensive performance of the year -- against the Pac-10's best defense.

TUCSON, Ariz . -- The outcome was decided long before Arizona's Derrick Williams' tomahawk dunk in the final 15 seconds.

PORTLAND -- Gonzaga lost track of Portland's Jared Stohl, and it almost cost the No. 19 Bulldogs.

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- The second 14-0 team in modern college football history is back in Idaho, ready to watch Texas and Alabama play for the national title.

PULLMAN -- Washington State basketball coach Ken Bone admits the technical foul that helped Oregon beat the Cougars last week "hit us pretty hard."

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- At the scene of its greatest triumph, Boise State once again set the college football world abuzz, its transition from ultimate underdog to power player complete.

Washington State will play six home football games in 2010 and is still in discussions about whether one of those will be in Seattle.

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- TCU's defense was supposed to make the difference against Boise State. Instead, a lack of offense did.

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Boise State pulled "Riddler" out of its bag of tricks.

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- TC-Who?

PULLMAN -- Freshman Reggie Moore had a career-high 19 points as Washington State beat Oregon State 65-60 on Saturday.

BOISE -- We wanted to know how Boise State sophomore quarterback Kellen Moore -- a Prosser High School graduate -- makes such quick, proper decisions -- so we went into the film room with him.

CHICAGO -- As busy as the schedule was, Robert Sacre felt like he was playing in a tournament.

BOISE -- Boise State quarterback Kellen Moore was like an advanced-placement student when he joined the Boise State football team in 2007.

PROSSER -- Tom Moore, the man who built the powerhouse Prosser High School football program, has noticed the change in colors around this small central Washington town of 5,138 people.

SPOKANE -- Gonzaga buried Oklahoma under an early barrage of 3-pointers and ran away with the game Thursday night.

PULLMAN -- With three seconds left in double overtime, Oregon's Malcolm Armstead drove the lane and hit the game-winner to beat Washington State 91-89 in a Pac-10 opener Thursday night.

SEATTLE -- Washington coach Lorenzo Romar knows that Venoy Overton would rather be introduced with the starters instead of sitting on the bench for the first few minutes.

MISSOULA, Mont. -- The University of Montana promoted wide receivers coach Robin Pflugrad to head coach Thursday, eight days after Bobby Hauck left for UNLV.

BOISE -- As his offense trotted back on the field, that fleeting voice of consciousness popped into Robb Akey's head.

PULLMAN -- What's going on in the Pacific-10 Conference?

BOISE -- At times during Robb Akey's first two years at Idaho, it was understandable when the Vandals' place in college football was questioned.