Because he said he "needed the money very badly," according to a police report, Huskies senior linebacker John Timu, a two-year team captain, was suspended for the first two weeks of spring practices, coach Chris Petersen said announced Tuesday.

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Give Chris Petersen the Oscar for spring football practice candor.

"Spring ball is usually pretty ugly," he said Monday. "It really is. All it takes is one or two guys to not be on the same page and everything looks terrible."

And he was talking about practice play, not QB Cyler Miles or WR Damore'ea Stringfellow, who allegedly did their own special version of ugly.

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Three players with state connections – Washington State FS Deone Bucannon and  University of Washington players Austin Seferian-Jenkins and Bishop Sankey – are among 335 players scheduled participate in the NFL combine in Indianapolis starting Wednesday. The combine runs through Feb. 25 at Lucas Oil Stadium and includes workouts, medical examinations and psychological testing for the benefit of NFL scouts.

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University of Washington football coach Chris Petersen has indefinitely suspended QB Cyler Miles and WR Damore'ea Stringfellow for violating team rules, the school said Thursday. Seattle police are investigating an alleged assault that occurred at 8:30 p.m. Sunday night near the 2300 block of NE 55th Street. No arrests have been made.

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National letter of intent day brought 24 players to the University of Washington, usually a big public deal for a new coaching staff. Not Wednesday.

"I appreciate you guys being here," Huskies coach Chris Petersen said to a light media gathering at the UW Founders Club. "What are you doing here? I was going to be downtown myself, but I didn't think I could make it back to the one or two of you who might show up."

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A little more than six hours before college football's National Signing Day, Huskies coach Chris Petersen unofficially secured the No. 1 recruit in the state of Washington.

Budda Baker, a 5-foot-10, 177-pound defensive back from Bellevue High School, appeared on King5 TV Tuesday night and announced his commitment to UW. Ranked four out of five stars by most recruiting services, and the No. 5 safety in the country by Scout.com, Baker said staying close to family was a major reason he chose the Huskies.

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Chris Petersen's task of restocking Washington's offensive line just became a little harder. Erik Kohler told the Seattle Times Thursday that he was retiring because of numerous injuries. He spent parts of the last four seasons (2010-13) at guard and tackle.

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Washington and Washington State Wednesday announced their football schedules for 2014, and both feature major improvements compared to last season.

The Cougars, who played just five games at Martin Stadium in 2013, next season will host six games in Pullman, highlighted by a Sept. 20 match-up with Oregon, a Nov. 1 game with USC and the Apple Cup Nov. 29, which will return to a Saturday for the first time since 2011.

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Unranked since a three-game, midseason losing streak to No. 5 Stanford, No. 9 Oregon and Arizona State, the Washington Huskies finished 25th in the final Associated Press college football poll released Tuesday. This is the first time UW has ended a season with a national ranking since 2001, when the Huskies were 21st. Washington is one of six Pac-12 schools ranked in the final AP poll.

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Who won 2013? Certainly the Seahawks and Russell Wilson, although the early part of 2014 might be a different story. Who lost 2013? Most assuredly the Mariners, although their spectacular desperation spawned several of the most intriguing yarns of the year, including revelations of upper-management dysfunction and the franchise's outlandish attempt to fix the wreck by handing $240 million over 10 years to a 31-year-old second baseman.

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Hey, it's New Year's Eve. Let's get fun.

Things changed momentously in Seattle sports in 2013. The Seahawks, Mariners, Sounders and Washington Huskies football busted some big-time personnel moves. The most audacious enterprise -- Chris Hansen's attempt to build a basketball/hockey arena in SoDo -- fell short, but remains alive. With fresh ideas, it can work.

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It took Chris Petersen a little more than three weeks to finalize most of his Washington football coaching staff. Monday the school released news of those who are filling vacancies created by Steve Sarkisian's departure to USC. Significantly, Tosh Lupoi, the assistant facing an investigation for allegedly funding a UW recruit's online classes and tutoring, is no longer on staff, still employed but reassigned "other duties within the UW athletic department."

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Bishop Sankey, the greatest single-season rusher in University of Washington football history, will bypass his senior season and enter the NFL draft, according to multiple reports, including Sankey's own comments and reactions to it on Twitter. Sankey, who said before Friday's Fight Hunger Bowl game that his decision to enter the draft was imminent, has been projected as a second-round or third-round pick.

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Marques Tuiasosopo, who led Washington to a bowl victory Friday over BYU, has accepted an offer from USC head coach Steve Sarkisian to coach the Trojans' tight ends, according to sources who told the Seattle Times Sunday night.

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After the Huskies' 31-16 triumph over Brigham Young Friday night at the Fight Hunger Bowl, University of Washington junior tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins told reporters he will forgo his final year of eligibility and declare for the 2014 NFL draft.

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In the numbing pantheon of minor bowl games, the 2013 Fight Hunger Bowl will not figure for gold plating. Which doesn't mean that the University of Washington players shouldn't be intensely proud of the 31-16 shutdown of Brigham Young Friday night in San Francisco's AT&T Park.

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Despite playing without quarterback Keith Price and running back Bishop Sankey for most of the fourth quarter, Washington held on to defeat Brigham Young University 31-16 Friday night in the Fight Hunger Bowl at AT&T Park in San Francisco. The Huskies finished 9-4, the most victories they have had since 2000 when Friday's interim coach, Marques Tuiasosopo, quarterbacked the team.

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GAME: Brigham Young (8-4 overall) vs. Washington (8-4 overall, 5-4 Pac-12). WHEN: Friday, 6:30 p.m., AT&T Park, San Francisco. BOWL: Fight Hunger. MEETING: 9th (series 4-4). COACHES: Bronco Mendenhall, BYU; Marques Tuiasosopo, Washington (interim). RANKINGS: Neither school ranked. LINE: Washington by 3. TV: ESPN. RADIO: KJR-950 AM.

It has been a turbulent ride for Washington since its Apple Cup triumph over Washington State, what with the loss of head coach Steve Sarkisian to USC and the hiring of Chris Petersen from Boise State as Sarkisian's replacement, to say nothing of Tosh Lupoi, the defensive line coach targeted with allegations that he made rules-breaking payments for the tutoring of a recruit. Now, for a final time this season, it's back to football.

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The bowl-season mythology says that the tradition, custom and prestige of participation is a grand and glorious experience for student-athletes that is more than worth the effort. Then there's a lot of the Washington Huskies, who, except for the $500 swag bags of gear and trinkets, probably would just as soon hang out at home.

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Bellevue High School safety Budda Baker, the Associated Press's state player of the year in Washington, has spurned the University of Washington in favor of rival Oregon. He announced a verbal commitment on his Twitter account Friday. UW and UCLA were said to be the other finalists.

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