A few months after his national nonfiction best-seller, The Boys in the Boat, was published in 2014, Seattle author Daniel James Brown was showing a friend around the Conibear Shell House on the University of Washington campus. They looked at the trophies accrued over decades by successful Huskies teams, and gazed upon the legendary Husky Clipper, the shell used to win gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics under the grim glare of Hitler.

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What Nate Robinson said Monday about being offered $100,000 by a booster to keep playing football instead of basketball for the University of Washington was less of a revelation and more of a tradition. And we all know how big tradition is for college football.

Huskies boosters were doing this long before Robinson's father, UW running back Jacque Robinson, was born. Ask Hugh (The King) McElhenny.

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The Pac-12 Conference Monday selected 11 athletes, including University of Washington QB Sonny Sixkiller for induction into the league's Hall of Honor. Sixkiller and his fellow inductees will be enshrined March 9 during a ceremony prior to the semifinals of men's conference basketball tournament in Las Vegas.

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University of Washington football coach Chris Petersen put the finishing touches on his 2018 recruiting class Tuesday, one day after Jacob Eason, a former five-star quarterback out of Lake Stevens High, officially transferred to Montlake from the University of Georgia. Petersen has not only signed perhaps the Pac-12's best class, but obtained in Eason the overwhelming favorite to succeed Jake Browning.

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In a move fairly unusual for players with NFL-caliber talent, RB Myles Gaskin said he is planning to come back for his senior season with his University of Washington teammates. Ahead of Monday's deadline for declaring intent for the NFL, Gaskin told the Seattle Times Sunday he had unfinished business.

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Keith Jackson was that rare sort of personality so endearingly engaging that everywhere he worked, people liked the idea of having a small claim on him. Broadcasting a college football game on national TV, fans of the host school believed that when he did "our" game, he was "our" guy.

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QB Jacob Eason, the 2015 national prep player of the year from Lake Stevens High School who lost to injury his starting job at Georgia, is heading back home to play at the University of Washington.

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The University of Washington finished 16^th in the final Associated Press college football poll, which was taken after Alabama defeated Georgia for the national championship Monday night in Atlanta. The Huskies, No. 12 in the final regular-season AP rankings, fell four spots after losing to Penn State 35-28 in the Fiesta Bowl Dec. 30.

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The college football season ended Monday night in Atlanta with Alabama's 26-23 victory over Georgia for the national title. Fun game. But for denizens of the Pac-12 Conference, they wished the season had ended right after the regular season.

That way, the critics could only speculate on the dubious competitive worth of Pac-12 football in 2017, instead of having it confirmed across the fruited plain by a 1-8 bowl record.

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Down 28-7, it was plain that Washington was not on the same level as Penn State. But after the Huskies rallied to have a shot to win the Fiesta Bowl Saturday afternoon, it was also plain that the Huskies were on a level commensurate with the heyday of Don James.

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Takeaway

No. 9 Penn State rolled to a 28-7 lead, weathered a significant Washington rally, and pounded home a 35-28 victory over the 11th-ranked Huskies at the Fiesta Bowl Saturday in Glendale, AZ (box). UW's loss capped the worst showing ever by the Pac-12 in a single bowl season. The conference finished 1-8.

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The player who stepped in for the Huskies' best returning defender in 2017 now gets to be in charge of stopping the perhaps the college nation's best all-purpose back. If MLB Ben Burr-Kervin pulls it off Saturday afternoon in Glendale, the good-as-new repair will stand as a significant achievement for Chris Petersen's regime at Washington.

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CB Kyler Gordon, the state's top-rated recruit from Archbishop Murphy High in Everett, committed to the University of Washington Thursday night. He waited a day after Wednesday's new early signing date for NCAA programs so he could have a spotlight to himself on KING5 TV.

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The Washington Huskies received letters of intent from 18 recruits in 10 states, including Tennessee and Texas, on the first day of the new NCAA Division I early signing period. The Class of 18 could expand over the next two days and again during the traditional signing period that starts in February, coach Chris Petersen said.

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Daniel F. Fears, an attorney representing Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon, said Thursday that his client adamantly denies sexual harassment allegations made against him this week by a former employee of Moon's, Wendy Haskell. Those allegations, contained in a lawsuit filed against Moon Monday, can be found here.

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A California woman, employed by a sports marketing company led by former University of Washington and Seahawks quarterback Warren Moon, has filed suit against the former football star and current broadcaster accusing him of sexual harassment. According to the Washington Post, which first reported the story, the suit was filed Monday in Orange County, CA.

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Washington's Vita Vea, a 6-foot-5, 340-pound defensive tackle from Milpitas, CA., Tuesday was selected the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year, and also won the Morris Trophy, presented annually to the top offensive and defensive linemen in the conference. The league award is voted upon by Pac-12 coaches, the Morris Trophy by players.

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Washington placed five players on the All-Pac-12 first team announced Tuesday while Washington State contributed two. Neither UW's Jake Browning, last year's Offensive Player of the Year, nor WSU's Luke Falk, who established every significant conference passing record this season, made the first or second teams. Both were honorable mention selections.

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Projected originally to play in the Alamo Bowl, and most recently in the Cotton, Washington instead will play opposite Penn State in the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, AZ., Saturday, Dec. 30. That announcement came Sunday following the College Football Playoff Committee's choice of national semifinal pairings, No. 1 Clemson vs. No. 4 Alabama and No. 2 Oklahoma v. No. 3 Georgia.

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Jonathan Smith is the next Oregon State football coach, the school announced Thursday afternoon. The Washington Huskies offensive coordinator for four seasons under Chris Petersen, Smith, 38, was the Beavers quarterback from 1998-2000, when OSU finished fourth in the country his senior season. He signed a five-year deal and will be introduced at 11 a.m. Thursday.

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