"Great Scott! Bridgeport is 1.21 Gigawatts of awesome!"

Happy Hump Day Cougs! Truth be told, it's Tuesday night as I write this, but I'm pretty sure Doctor Emmett Brown works for Bloguin because it gives us the magical ability to write things at one time, but make them appear on the internet at another time in the future. It's pretty neato. These details are surely of no importance to you whatsoever, but I'm stalling as I try to come up with an angle for this week's post. You see, when the basketball team stinks (as Longball outlined), this time of year is nothing more than the calm before the signing day storm. Lo and behold, Lucas already covered the weekend's recruiting news in his post. Don't get me wrong, I'm proud of the work, fellas, but how about leaving a couple mid-week scraps for your boy? I'm worried that if I don't at least occasionally write about WSU Football, the readers of the WSU Football Blog will revolt. Diligent blogger that I am, however, I must press on. The perfectly cooked steak (yes, that sound you hear is my own horn being tooted by me) and Brigeport Hop Czar Imperial IPA I just had must be settling because an idea has been slowly forming in the lump on the top of my head called a brain as I've rambled through this intro. While I may not have thoughts or news on specific recruits, I do want to touch on the world of recruiting in general. I will do just that, but you all know the drill. Ladies leave your man at home, the club is full of ballers and they pockets full grown and all you fellas leave a girl with a friend 'cause it's 11:30 and you need to be jumpin' jumpin' (Yikes. What a terrible song. When I'm bastardizing Destiny's Child Lyrics, the "jump" gimmick might have run its course; just click on the jump please and thank you).

Happy Tuesday to you Cougar Nation!

Hopefully your Tuesday hasn't been spent shoveling snow and scraping your windshield, but boy is it sure chilly and icy here in western Washington. Sort of like the Cougars shooting towards the end of the game on Sunday, huh? I'd say that's an apt metaphor.

It didn't take a genius to figure out why we were beaten at UW. We were dominated on the glass, to the tune of 44-20. In-fact, the Dawgs had more offensive boards (21) than we had total boards. Early in the game, our Zone Defense forced the Dawgs to take ugly contested shots, but in the second half (more like the final quarter) of the game, everything fell for them.

The good news is that some big men are headed our way beginning next year.

"Go ahead, skin that smoke-wagon and lets see what happens."

There’s a new sheriff in town, folks, and his name is Mike Leach. Coach Leach laid down the law this weekend and kicked TJ Poloai off the team for what is rumored to be a violation of the team’s substance abuse policy. Leach has been very outspoken in his lack of tolerance for his athletes using recreational drugs and this is an example of those words being put into action. Let’s hope the rest of the team got the message. This also makes me wonder if this is something that is going to cause some friction throughout the athletic department where multiple teams have dealt with similar issues recently and not always applied the same disciplinary measures. I guess we’ll see.

Fortunately that ain’t all that’s goin down in Pullman these days, so you know what to do:

Hello Followers.  Hope you had a great long weekend.Today, I bring you a “special announcement”, one that carries with it the potential for world peace and transformation. 

So, if you want to read why and how it is that a new Zen will be coming soon to a Coug Universe near you.  Then Read on.  

Good afternoon, Followers.  Hope you're gearing up for a great weekend.

Well, in his first act as Director of Research and Development at the WSU Football Blog, our very own Longball dug up an incredible gem.  So, if you want to read about it....well, you're going to have to click on the jumperoo..