Americans love betting on the Super Bowl, and there’s no limit to the options available to bettors on Super Sunday. Cruise the internet, and one can easily find wagering opportunities, from the color of New England coach Bill Belichick’s hoodie on game day to the odds on RB Marshawn Lynch grabbing his crotch after scoring a touchdown.

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CHENEY -- Eastern Washington basketball star Tyler Harvey is challenging for the national scoring title, carries a 3.75 grade-point average and seems to impress everyone with his genial personality and humble nature. Eagles coach Jim Hayford can’t think of anything negative to say about Harvey.

Well, maybe one negative.

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Everyone knows about the Grinch who stole Christmas. Washington State’s new defensive coordinator wants to be known as the Grinch who steals footballs.

“Violence” and “aggressiveness” were two terms Alex Grinch used repeatedly in describing his goals for improving WSU’s lackluster defense, particularly when it comes to producing turnovers.

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Bill Moos would have loved to complicate his life by having Washington State play in a bowl game for the second year in a row. But the Cougars athletic director is staying plenty busy with a lawsuit, a record deficit and a struggling football program on his plate.

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The football rebuilding process at Washington State took a turn for the worse Friday afternoon when defensive lineman Xavier Cooper informed sportspressnw.com  that he will bypass his senior year and declare for the NFL draft.

“It was a long and hard decision,” Cooper said by phone from his home in Tacoma.

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Happy New Year? Not if you’re a fan of the Washington State football team. A source with close ties to the Cougars said Monday that CB Daquawn Brown, WSU’s leading tackler in 2014, has been dismissed from the team.

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I hope your holiday season has been one filled with love, peace and happiness. If Santa deemed you to be really, really good this year, your holidays may have been as blessed as mine, because I received the best Christmas present of my life – eyesight.

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Steve Gleason, the former Washington State football and baseball player who has inspired millions in his battle with Lou Gehrig’s Disease, has been named co-recipient of the 2014 Sports Illustrated Inspiration of the Year award.

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The Washington State Cougars say the latest tweet about football coach Mike Leach is for the birds. Houston television reporter David Nuno tweeted Sunday, “Source confirms Mike Leach has interest in #UH job if buyout and contract issues could be worked out.”

The Cougars promptly responded with their own tweet: “WSU officials say no truth to stories linking Mike Leach to Houston.”

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SPOKANE – The late, great Dan Fitzgerald, godfather of Gonzaga basketball, never met a patsy he was afraid to schedule. Whitman, Warner Pacific, Carroll, Montana Tech, Lewis-Clark State – Fitz played ’em all before the Zags became the ZAGS.

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CHENEY -- Long-haired, tatted-up, biceps-bulging linebacker Ronnie Hamlin is walking toward you on a dark, deserted street. Your natural instinct is to a) run like hell in the opposite direction; b) curl up into the fetal position and pretend you’ve died of a heart attack; c) ask Hamlin if he has time to join you for a cup of coffee and a spirited discussion about physics.

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PULLMAN -- Washington State football fans wanted heads to roll after another dismal season. Their wish was granted one day after the Apple Cup loss to Washington. The Cougars announced Sunday that defensive coordinator-defensive backs coach Mike Breske and outside linebackers coach Paul Volero have been fired. Eric Russell, the assistant head coach and special teams coordinator, was fired at midseason.

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PULLMAN – The Apple Cup was played in mind-numbing cold Saturday night. Literally. That’s the only plausible explanation for some of the nonsense spewed by Washington State players after their latest train wreck of a season came to a merciful halt, courtesy of the Washington Huskies.

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PULLMAN – Chris Petersen’s first season as coach of the Washington Huskies has not been without its share of challenges, but the Washington State Cougars did not provide the Huskies with much of a challenge in a lopsided Apple Cup on Saturday night at frozen Martin Stadium.

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PULLMAN – How prolific is Washington State’s passing attack? Last week, the Cougars broke Pac-12 records – which date back nearly a century, mind you – for passing yards, attempts and completions in a season. How irrelevant is Washington State’s passing attack? The aforementioned records fell in yet another game when the Cougars went down to defeat.

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Arizona State dared to tug on Superman’s cape. In fact, the Sun Devils yanked that cape off Luke Falk’s broad shoulders, revealing Falk to be every bit as inexperienced as he is talented. Coming off one of the greatest starting debuts in Pac-12 history, Falk had a 601-yard passing day at ASU that ranks second in conference history.

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Connor Halliday made vast improvement as a quarterback during his five years at Washington State. His greatest progress may have been demonstrated in his ability to read defenses and anticipate what would happen next on the field.

Halliday became so good at it, he was able to see his college career ending right before his eyes.

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SPOKANE – Two decades have passed since Gonzaga basketball burst onto the national scene by playing in their first NCAA tournament. Yet, for many outsiders, the enduring image of the Bulldogs remains that of “the little engine that could.”

This, of course, is utter nonsense for a program that has gone to the Big Dance 16 consecutive years while winning 25 or more games in all but two of those seasons. It has long been easier to coax an honest answer out of Alex Rodriguez than to gain entrance to a basketball game at Gonzaga’s 6,000-seat arena.

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Washington State quarterback Luke Falk was such a red-hot recruiting prospect going into his junior year of high school that he received a scholarship offer from mighty Florida State.

“I kind of thought the offers would roll in after that,” Falk recalled wistfully.

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CORVALLIS, OR. – Question Mike Leach’s coaching decisions all you want. The constant passing. The fourth-down gambles. The freshmen taken off redshirt status after being activated late in a season that is going nowhere.

Even Leach’s most devoted admirers admit that some of his decisions can be debated long and hard. No one, however, should ever debate Leach’s merits as the guru of the forward pass.

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