Officer Lee Groinman takes in the Yakima Coaches Tour; And a good time is had by all, Coach Sark included. Last year's class? Who will red-shirt, who will play? And the 'sleeper' of the class?? Plus a new ride, enter the new 'Torque Monster'...:-) (Full Story)

Many great coaches, players and teams dominate the annals of Husky football history. But who were the best of the best and under which categories of excellence did they excel? (Full Story).

It is imperative that Washington stop the run against the highly ranked teams it plays this upcoming season, lest fans begin hurling barbs at the coaches in mid-October. (Full Story).

Did "Wee" Coyle coach Broadway high school in 1912? How did university president Henry Suzzallo defend his removal of Gil Dobie as football coach to a group of alumni in December 1916? (Full Story).

Comments on this year's Husky recruiting class. (Full Story)

As the Ringling Brothers Circus comes to town, Wee Coyle and his pals, The Terry Street Boys, meet it head on.

Lomen is a grandson of the legendary Coyle, who quarterbacked Washington to four unbeaten seasons from 1908-1911 (Full Story).

During the era of Coach Gilmour Dobie, Washington was poised to be forever included in the annals of college football as one of top five teams in the history of the game. Why this never happened reads like a fable where truth is stranger than fiction. (Full Story)

Oregon's mastery over Washington, its 8-game winning streak, began in 2004, not coincidentally with the emergence in the rivalry of defensive tackle Haloti Ngata. (Full Story).

Both the 1944 Rose Bowl and the 1950 matchup with Cal share a significant place in Husky history, the 1944 game because of the psychological ploy used by USC coach Jeff Cravath and the 1950 game because of a controversial play called by Don Heinrich. (Full Story).

Forget Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. Their duel almost pales in comparison to a 46 year-old dustup that featured the gun-slinging Wyatt Earp (Jim Owens) versus the wily, poker-playing Doc Holliday (Tommy Prothro). (Full Story).

Lynn Borland critiques Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry's book, Scoreboard, Baby. Why let the facts trump investigative reporting? Borland is the author of the authoritative biography of Gilmour Dobie, Pursuit of Perfection. (Full Story).

Gilmour Dobie has no monument recognizing his huge contributions to Washington football. A groundswell of Washington fans are stating that after 100 years the time has come to honor Robert Gilmour Dobie – the Founding Father of Washington’s winning tradition in football. (Full Story)

Amateurs, the off-tackle play, simplicity, and some myths put to rest. A former Dartmouth QB and his interview with Dobie. (Full Story).

In 1940, Gil Dobie (1908-1916, 59-0-3) met with a group of his former Washington players at the Olympic Hotel in Seattle, making the long trip by train from Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.  (Full Story)

Regardless of the outcome of the Holiday Bowl, quarterback Jake Locker's legacy at Washington has already been etched in stone. It reads: "Jake Locker, a Husky legend." (Full Story).

Criticizing Mark Emmert and his search committees for the hiring paths they chose in 2004 ignores past history and a wayward athletics program that was on NCAA probation. (Full Story).

Why did University of Washington president Henry Suzzallo (1915-1926) fire a football coach who was unbeaten in 62 games -- a coach who had a record of 59-0-3 in the period from 1908 through 1916 -- that coach being the legendary Gilmour Dobie? (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).

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). 

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).

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).

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).