Washington State Cougars

UCLA forward Travis Wear will play against Washington on Saturday, Coach Ben Howland said. Wear left Wednesday’s game against Washington State after re-injuring his right foot. Howland said that Wear practiced Friday and “made a positive...

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Soccer--Premier League, Stoke City at Fulham, 6:30 a.m. (ESPN2); MLS, Preseason, Desert Diamond Cup, Championship Match, 7 p.m. (NBCSN) Men’s College Basketball--Iona at Indiana State, 10 a.m. (ESPNU); Clemson at...

These are dark times for the NCAA. As an organization in charge of monitoring all things college athletics, the NCAA has prided itself with creating a certain brand of integrity. That integrity, however, has taken a big hit as of late. From the way it...

This wasn't the Washington Generals that UCLA faced Saturday night -- just Washington State. The Cougars were a day at the spa for the Bruins, a chance to work out the kinks. The 76-62 victory over the hapless Cougars at Pauley Pavilion was the sorbet...

|TODAY| |HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS’ BASKETBALL| |District 1B at Milbank|  Waverly-South Shore (7-12) vs. Waubay (5-10), 6 p.m.  Wilmot (14-4) vs. Grant-Deuel (1-14), 7:30 p.m. |District 2B at Aberdeen Civic Arena|  Hitchcock-Tulare (8-12) vs....

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| NHL Hockey--Pittsburgh Penguins at Buffalo Sabres, 11 a.m. (NBC); Los Angeles Kings at Chicago Blackhawks, 2:30 p.m. (NBC); Washington Capitals at New York Rangers, 5 p.m. (NBCSN) Men’s College Basketball--Ohio State at...

Tony Bennett has been a head coach for seven seasons, and for the seventh time his team ranks among the nation’s best defensively. What separates this year’s Virginia Cavaliers from most of Bennett’s other squads is their offensive...

|TODAY| |SWIMMING|  Aberdeen Swim Club at final day of Pierre meet |WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING|  Northern State will compete in the final day of the four-day Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Swimming and Diving Championships in...

In a week when you thought you might have heard it all, I present to you Bill Walton speaking to USC students and bashing UCLA basketball. "I never knew they had pretty girls here at USC," began Walton, one of UCLA's all-time greats, after being...

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Soccer--Premier League, Norwich City at Queens Park, 6:30 a.m. (ESPN2) Men’s College Basketball--Cincinnati Seton Hall, 10 a.m. (ESPNU); Syracuse at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m. (ESPN); Purdue at Northwestern, 11 a.m. (ESPN2);...

The Rose Bowl pregame weather has been about as crummy as the seven combined losses for Stanford and Wisconsin. It's never good to make Dick Butkus, who made the game-clinching interception for Illinois in the 1964 game, slog through drenching rain...

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| Tennis--Australian Open, same-day tape, 10 a.m. (ESPN2), 8 p.m., 2:30 a.m. (ESPN2) Women’s College Basketball--Iowa State at Oklahoma State, Noon (FXSP); Maryland at Georgia Tech, 2 p.m. (ESPN2); Alabama-Birmingham at...