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).

Waco, Texas. Running the ball with impunity in the second half, the Baylor Bears outscored the Washington Huskies, 67-56, in the Valero Alamo Bowl. (Full Story)

Officer Lee Groinman is going for the winning trifecta. Having Thursdays off are a good thing.  (Full Story)

Sifting through statistics is about as rewarding as panning for gold in a dry creek bed. Occasionally, though, you find a nugget of a stat which, for the moment at least, seems as big as Fort Knox. (Full Story).

Reser Stadium, Corvallis, Oregon. Led by Sean Mannion and his 339-yard-passing effort, the Oregon State Beavers out-muscled the Washington Huskies, 38-21, in front of 42,766 orange-draped fans. (Full Story)

Officer Lee Groinman is one disturbed camper. Fresh off Orting’s ‘Occupy Wall Street Rally’, no it didn’t garner much media attention, Lee is now ready for some football. (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).

Officer Lee Groinman eats a dish of crow after the Oregon performance and comes back with a breakfast pizza... (Full Story)

Husky Stadium, Seattle. Behind the running of LaMichael James and their stout defense, the sixth-ranked Oregon Ducks beat the Washington Huskies, 34-17, on a night that marked Husky Stadium's last hurrah before its renovation. (Full Story)

Officer Groinman pays tribute to the Grey Lady. Then draws similarities to other classic Husky games. (Full Story)

Husky Stadium, Seattle. Behind Chris Polk's 5 touchdowns and 244 total yards, the Washington Huskies subdued the Arizona Wildcats, 42-31, on a homecoming/blackout night in front of 59,825 fans. (Full Story).

Office Lee Groinman digests the Stanford game, stomach flu? Omens abound, was the blowout foretold, and will the stinker linger? (Full Story)

Arizona (2-5, 1-4 Pac-12) faces Washington (5-2, 3-1 Pac-12) this upcoming Saturday at Husky Stadium, Seattle. The Wildcats thumped UCLA, 48-12, last Thursday, while Washington was blown out by Stanford, 65-21, last Saturday.  (Full Story).

Dominating both sides of the line of scrimmage, the Stanford Cardinal crushed the Washington Huskies, 65-21, at Stanford Stadium, Stanford California. (Full Story).

Officer Lee Groinman continues his undefeated streak. Stanford? Why change horses now? Stanford taking a swipe at Rodney Dangerfield? (Full Story)

Led by Chris Polk and Keith Price, the Washington Huskies ran and passed their way to a 52-24 victory over the Colorado Buffaloes at Husky Stadium, Seattle Washington. (Full Story).

The Buffs and Dawgs are compared in 5 categories of measure; 26 individual comparisons are made, and we pick a winner (Full Story).

Officer Groinman continues his winning streak. Tougher times ahead? (Full Story)

Capitalizing on 5 Utah turnovers and the running of Chris Polk, the Washington Huskies beat the Utah Utes, 31-14, before 45,412 disappointed fans at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Full Story)

Husky Stadium, Seattle. Behind Keith Price who passed for 292 yards and 3 touchdowns and a valiant goal-line stand by its defense, the Washington Huskies held on to beat the California Golden Bears, 31-23, before 60,437 fans. (Full Story).

Officer Lee Groinman takes a look at the Nebraska game, a game in need of a lubricant. An old honeymoon game for Lee, as it’s his forgotten anniversary.  (Full Story)

Lincoln, Nebraska. Benefiting from some controversial refereeing, the Nebraska Cornhuskers unleashed a brutal ground game to jump to a 27-point lead, then held off the resurgent Washington Huskies, 51-38, in front of 85,110 bucolic fans, who were mostly dressed in idyllic red. (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).

In the closing seconds of the game, Desmond Trufant intercepted a pass thrown by Bo Levi Mitchell to ensure a 30-27 victory for the Washington Huskies over the Eastern Washington University Eagles at Husky Stadium in Seattle. (Full Story).

Corrections Officer Lee Groinman is living the dream. Recuperating from inner ear surgery he meets the University of Washington’s new President, Michael K. Young at the DeAtley Estate. (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).

Questions are posed concerning an injury to a key player, a missing tape from 1971, the Dour Dane, ESPN's Ted Miller, and the spring game. (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.

Will Lomen, a grandson of legendary UW quarterback Wee Coyle (1908-1911), commemorates this event with an exact copy of the thank-you letter written by Dobie to his  grandfather and an old photo taken at the get-together. (Full Story)

Will Lomen, a grandson of legendary Washington quarterback "Wee" Coyle (1908-1911), writes about his grandfather in Chapter III, as part of a memoir devoted to the Coyle legacy. (Full Story)

Will Lomen, a grandson of legendary Washington quarterback "Wee" Coyle (1908-1911), writes about his grandfather in Chapter II, as part of a memoir devoted to the Coyle legacy. (Full Story)

Quarterback "Wee" Coyle's games played against Oregon rank among my all-time favorite Washington victories. (Full Story).

Since most of the letters of intent have been faxed in, my panel of experts (me) has assigned some grades to the various positional units on the team. (Full Story).

Along with the creaky wooden floors of Denny Hall down to the perfumed labs in Bagley Hall, Husky heroes travel with me for evermore. And Jake Locker is Mal's favorite Husky of them all. Here's why (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).

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).