Safety Sean Parker from Narbonne high school announced his intentions to attend the University of Washington on ESPNU this morning at 7:15AM. Josh Shirley explains his decision to attend UCLA. (Full Story).

In my opinion, the Border War -- the intense feud between Washington and Oregon -- had its strident start in 1908 when Gilmour Dobie replaced Victor Place as Washington's head football coach. In nine years' time, by simply being the best he could be, Dobie fomented the bitter feelings now entrenched. (Full Story).

I know...everybody is dumping on Lane Kiffin, newly hired coach at USC. And I know he carries some baggage...(Full Story)

The hiring of Lane Kiffin, 34, as head coach at USC gives the Huskies, formerly called the Sun Dodgers, a chance to make hay while the sun shines, while Kiffin is busy huffing and puffing at  the miasma surrounding Troy, trying to rebuild another marauder in the interim. (Full Story).

Mike Garrett, athletic director at USC, is under fire. (Full Story).

Some odds and ends from last season, and what two important bowl games this season mean for Washington in 2010. Some Oregon stuff is tossed in for free, as in the Oregon "hook" (Full Story). 

In nine consecutive years as Washington's football coach, Gilmore Dobie went undefeated over sixty-one games while developing character on the gridiron. Have "Gloomy" Gil and his Dobiemen received their proper dues? (Full Story).

Steve Sarkisian will never win the Nobel Peace Prize; once again he's preparing to launch a Weapon of Mass Destruction. (Full story).

Quarterback Jake Locker's improved passing statistics correlate with the Huskies' steadily improving rebuilding effort. Should Jake turn pro at this point in his career? (Full Story).

In what could very well be his last game at Husky Stadium, Jake Locker threw for three touchdowns and ran for two more to lead Washington to an upset victory over California, 42-10. (Full Story).

On Saturday, Washington (4-7, 3-5) hosts 19th ranked California (8-3, 5-3) at Husky Stadium in the last game of the conference season for both teams. (Full Story).

A timetable for measuring Washington's road to recovery -- especially in terms of beating both Oregon schools -- is discussed.  Mathematically speaking, beating the Oregonians is a function of 8 variables. (Full Story).

The legendary Gilmour Dobie (58-0-3) coached Washington football from 1908 until 1916. In researching Dobie’s coaching career, biographer Lynn Borland discovered so many factual errors in the record he had to go back to the original sources to sort out fact from fiction. If we fans and alumni of Washington are to give Dobie and his great players their proper due, we owe it to them to set the record straight. (Full Story). 

To prepare for the Oregon game, Corrections officer Groinman takes three days off from work at the penitentiary, an annual leave he planned for one-year-and-two-days in advance. As well intentioned as he was he hadn’t planned for a dead battery, a burned-out oven and a check to WSU, of all places. Plus the “Cowboy Up” pizza gave him an eerie dream, something to chew on. (Full Story)

Deserted by his ticket buddies last season, Groinman had to sit by himself in Husky Stadium, watching that tormenting season go by. Searching the corrections facility for a Husky fan, he’s found a new friend to accompany him to the games. (Full Story).

Husky coach Steve Sarkisian and USC coach Pete Carroll were both effusive in their praise for Washington quarterback Jake Locker after his performance against Idaho last Saturday, in a 42-23 UW victory. But how well will Jake throw against USC this Saturday? USC ranks third in the conference in both pass and pass-efficiency defense. (Full Story).

Any success Washington should enjoy this season depends on the health of its quarterback Jake Locker, who is on track, albeit just a one-game track, for having his finest season with the Huskies. (Full Story).

Passing for 172 yards and 3 touchdowns, Jordan Jefferson led LSU to a 31-23 victory over Washington at Husky Stadium, spoiling Steve Sarkisian's debut as a head coach. (Full Story).

It’s a new season, a new coach and Groinman decides to take a week of vacation, having saved his vacation time up thanks to former coach Tyrone Willingham. On vacation, a series of tragic events has Groinman muttering, “Ya’ know, I gotta’ tell ya this. I’m thinkin’ these vacations ain’t all that there cracked up to be…Enough of vacations. I’m getting’ ready for some FOOTBALL!!” (Full Story).

Over the past several years, Washington hasn't done too well against teams ranked in the nation's top ten; in fact, the Huskies have been blown out several times. Even so, I have some expectations for the game with LSU, which I hope aren't being too unreasonable with the new coaching staff in mind (Full Story).

As the new season approaches, optimism reigns supreme among the Huskies fan base. The enthusiasm coach Steve Sarkisian brought to the table at last Friday's press conference has fired me up. (Full Story).

In this article, we discuss the Gil Dobie era and respond to an LSU fan who says that LSU fans will bring enthusiasm and passion to their game with UW on 5 September. Will he buy into my sob story?  (Full story). 

The Pac-10 gurus have relegated Washington to ninth place in their recent poll. If the Huskies beat Idaho and WSU, as they are currently favored to do, and post wins against each of the four teams in the second tier of the Pac-10, they'll go to a bowl. The odds against that happening are almost as long as if the "Sad Scott" back in 1915 had wanted to take on "Lone Star" in Pullman. (Full story).

The year 1953 marked the beginning of a turbulent era in Husky football. The 1953 Press Guide, published by the University of Washington, contains some interesting facts. (Full Story).

It's not easy being a member of a non-winning team, yet these players excelled in certain statistics that place them among the set of the record holders at Washington, who, for the most part, played on winning teams. (Full Story).

Everybody makes mistakes. And the Big Kahunas – the guys who have been running the football show at the University of Washington over the last 16 years – have been no different. (Full Story).

Only the passage of time will measure the true greatness of the legendary Jim Owens, who coached football at Washington from 1957 until 1974. His uniqueness as a football coach parallels the uniqueness of the era in which he coached. He is the only coach at Washington that led his team to a Rose Bowl victory who managed to avoid NCAA infractions during his time. He left an indelible impression on the athletes he coached and on those of us who knew him. (Full Story).

It didn’t take a rocket scientist to know that Tyrone Willingham was a questionable fit for Washington when he was hired in December 2004. Notre Dame had allegedly fired him for not winning enough games, and those around the program said he was a poor recruiter, this in a very competitive environment. (Full Story)

While it's too early to do a side-by-side comparison of Washington's first-game opponent, LSU, I thought I'd take a quick peak at its statistics from last year and examine its prognosis for this upcoming season. That's Washington's athletics director, Scott Woodward, pictured left. (Full Story)

Husky fan Chris Barnhart, who lives in Oregon, was kind enough to send us photos he took during the Huskies' spring game in April. We appreciate the effort of fans who send us photos they have taken and/or articles they have written pertaining to the Washington Huskies' football program (Full Story).

Head coach Steve Sarkisian was the guest of honor at the 20th annual Chow Down to Washington banquet on the 17th.  (Full Story).

With a healthy Jake Locker returning at quarterback, Washington looks to improve its passing-efficiency rating from last season. (Full Story).

According to sources around the internet, head coach Steve Sarkisian reportedly has hired or is contemplating the hiring of the following coaches for assistant coaching positions at the University of Washington. Trivia question: Is Sarkisian the 23rd, 26th or 27th head coach in Washington's history? Photo credit Bobak Ha'Eri. (Full Story).

I’m satisfied with this recruiting class. It’s a better class than I thought the new staff would bring in given the limited amount of time they had and the 0-12 unsettling point. (Full Story).

Are the recruiting rankings provided by the recruiting sites good predictors for a team's success? The rankings over the last 5 years seem to say so as far as the top 12 BCS teams are concerned. (Full Story).

Mike Stoops' progress at the University of Arizona promises a 5-year return to respectability for Washington if all conditions are met. But can Steve Sarkisian better Stoops' benchmark? (Full Story).

Now that the newness of having a new head coach on board has been with us for a little over a month, the question of goals and a timetable for reaching them emerges through all the hoopla and euphoria of Steve Sarkisian’s hiring. (Full Story)

The 2008 season, one for the books, needn't have happened (see the formula for the Huskies' implosion at the end). Nevertheless, it did, and I have some very forgettable moments to share (Full Story).

Here are my favorite picks for the head coaching job at the University of Washington vacated by the forced resignation of Tyrone Willingham. Check this article out for recent updates to the coaching search (Full Story).

Failing to prepare for his team's lack of experience and overall depth was Tyrone Willingham's undoing at the University of Washington. (Full Story).

This is the place holder for Monte Manka's poetry. Click on the links above and below to access the index to his poems (Full Story).

What's wrong with QB Jake Locker's passing? They say he locks onto his primary receivers too much, that some of his passes sail on him and that he hurries some of his short passes. Currently, Locker ranks tenth in the conference in pass efficiency (Full Story).

Because so much emphasis is placed on winning a national championship in football nowadays, going back in time and claiming what is rightfully yours is hardly a nutty notion. It is a keen idea that smacks of perspicacity. 

Some asterisks must be considered -- including race discrimination, strength of schedule, the polls, and who beat whom -- but, all in all, the 1960 Dawgs that year were the best of the best in my mind.  (Full Story).

Outplaying the number-one seed Memphis, UCLA deserves its trip to the final four. Winning the Pac-10 title, along with the tournament at Staples Arena, were crucial to the Bruins’ success; their last seven games were played in Los Angeles, San Diego and Oakland, all of them close to home cooking. (Full Story).

In some cases, not knowing one’s ancestral tree is better left alone. What good service to your psyche is rendered by finding out that a person from your lineage was beheaded about the time that Ann Boleyn was disloyal to her husband Henry VIII? (Full Story).

It has been three years since we've played the “Name Game,” and this time it won’t be so easy. Just the same, see how many clues you can decipher. Look for puns on names, some stretching and just plain answers to clues. Most of the names involve people associated with Husky football. The name of the guy pictured left is the answer to clue number four (Full Story).

I've been a fan of Husky football since World War II. Over that time, I've been fortunate to watch many great Huskies in action. On the list of my first five favorites were Hugh McElhenny, Marques Tuiasosopo, Napolean Kaufman, Bob Schloredt and Don Heinrich. Here are my second five favorites that were most fun to watch. (Full Story).

George Wilson may be the greatest of the greats, but I can only comment on those Husky players I have been fortunate enough to see in person. That leaves out Chuck Carroll and one of the ancients I love to read about, "Wee" Coyle, who played for Gil Dobie. (Full Story).

The Internet is rife with jokes sent from person to person. But somewhere  along the line somebody had to make up the joke. Now you can be that person, using the material inside. Here's a do-it-yourself guide for joke writing that uses football's vocabulary  (Full Story).

I've seen a lot of Husky basketball greats: Sammy White and his leaping, underhanded lay-up shot; there was Joe Cipriano, who could go coast-to-coast with anybody. How about Bob Houbregs (left) and his graceful hook shot? Captain Hook led the Dawgs to the final four in 1953, their only appearance. (Full Story).

College football, the game we love and cherish, has been under attack for some time. For Husky fans it began with an assault on Don James, culminating with the firing of Rick Neuheisel. Don James’ purple-and-gold citadel, so carefully nurtured and developed, was recklessly destroyed--as was Neuheisel’s quest to rebuild Husky football into the Florida State of the west. (Full Story).