Apparently, somebody at the University of Washington got to Jimmy Lake.

The idea he offered up Monday that the football team he coaches was going to have enough players ready to practice and play in a bowl game, given the roster havoc wrought by COVID-19, bordered on the absurd.  Athletics director Jen Cohen finally delivered Friday afternoon the only plausible decision that could be made:

Nope.

READ MORE»

The week of the Apple Cup, when Washington State said it couldn't field a team to play Washington for the first time since World War II because of an outbreak of COVID-19, the Huskies football team that Friday had its first positive test for the virus.

Eighteen days later -- the day the long-awaited vaccines arrived at UW Medical Center --  we learned that infections and related quarantines spread so thoroughly through the Huskies and staff, including leaving "zero offensive linemen" able to play, according to coach Jimmy Lake Monday, that UW couldn't field a team to play USC in the Pac-12 Conference championship Friday night.

READ MORE»

The games provided by dadu online have differences with other live casino games, this dice game has a large payout calculation if you successfully guess the bet you choose.

The twisting of the college-football pretzel by COVID-19 has come to this on the West Coast: By having its scheduled game Saturday in Eugene against Oregon canceled, the University of Washington (3-1) has won the North Division, and backed into the Pac-12 Conference game against South Division champ, and 16th-ranked, USC (5-0).

If the Huskies can field a team.

READ MORE»

When he said it Nov. 9, Jimmy Lake was early in his career as a professional shrugger.

“At this point, it really feels like we’re not surprised anymore,” Lake said on a Zoom conference with reporters discussing the failure by Cal to keep its program free of COVID-19 ahead of the "opener" in Berkeley with his Washington Huskies. “We’re just like, ‘OK, here we go. It’s on to the next. Let’s build a plan, and let’s get ready to go.'

"That’s all you can do at this point."

READ MORE»

COVID-19 has made inroads into the University of Washington football team, enough that all team activities were paused Wednesday, and put the rest of the already brief season in jeopardy.

A notice from UW athletics was sent out Wednesday morning that an increase in positive tests has occurred, stating the program will undergo additional polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing.

READ MORE»

In its previous three games, two of which were defeats, Stanford converted a collective 17 of 46 third-down attempts (37 percent), or 94th among big-boy schools. In its fourth game Saturday at sunny Husky Stadium, they converted 10 of 13, and were 2-for-2 on fourth downs.

Either the Cardinal's orphan status -- they were kicked out of Santa Clara County by rigid COVID-19 protocols and spent the week working out at Kennedy High School and a public park in Bellevue -- did wonders for its execution, attitude and aggression, or the Washington Huskies have a fairly crappy defense.

READ MORE»

In the middle of what would become one of the most remarkable game-winning drives in University of Washington football history, the thing fell apart. Momentarily, but ominously.

QB Dylan Morris, busy converting the worst game of his freshman year into his best, was in the shotgun scanning UW's alignment against the Utah defense before a play on a second-and-10 at the Utah 44.

READ MORE»

In stunning 15th-ranked Oregon 41-38 Friday night in Corvallis, one of the great outcomes in Oregon State football history also helped wallop the bejeezus out of the Pac-12 Conference's works, already rendered haywire from the pandemic. And it turned Washington's replacement game with Utah at 4:30 p.m. Saturday into something more than a dress rehearsal.

READ MORE»

Once the self-titled Conference of Champions, the Pac-12 has been reduced by the pandemic to a clearinghouse for the lost. Thursday afternoon, it put together two orphans, Washington and Utah, all dressed up for the holiday weekend with no place to go.

The Utes and Huskies abruptly will get together at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Husky Stadium to get some TV revenues from ESPN.

READ MORE»

The Cougars have temporarily run out of healthy players, so the Apple Cup football game is among the latest victims of the rapidly spreading coronavirus ravaging the nation. The annual rivalry game between Washington and Washington State, scheduled for Friday, has been canceled.

READ MORE»

This Washington Huskies football team may have to be taken a little more seriously. As in Southeastern Conference seriously.

That's the land of giant offensive lines, versatile quarterbacks, ruthless defenders and layers of fast running backs. As well as coaches with some swagger.

Here's some samples of what rookie head man Jimmy Lake had to say after the 44-27 triumph (box) Saturday night broken over the heads of the Arizona Wildcats:

READ MORE»

The coronavirus took another bite out of the Pac-12 Conference football plan Friday when Washington State's game with Stanford Saturday was canceled after the Cougars fell below the 53-player scholarship minimum needed to play. Per new league rules, it was declared no contest.

READ MORE»

When the first long snap from the final college football team in America to start its season sailed deep into the rain, wind, and quiet gloominess of Husky Stadium, headed toward the worst possible outcome -- an opponent touchdown -- the curse of 2020 seemed to have settled in Montlake for a Saturday night of sardonic laughs.

READ MORE»

This could have been a fairly powerful University of Washington football team. Then the pandemic hit, spring practice was scrubbed, everything shut down for a while and the regular season now begins rather than ends in November.

Oh, yeah, 10 players with eligibility remaining have left the Husky program once the 2019 Apple Cup went into the books.

READ MORE»

The Pac-12 Conference was first to the hilltop, shouting warnings about Covid-19 and refusing to play. Then it was the last to the party, rejoining the rest of college football after conversion to a new biotech testing solution that promised a safe salvage of part of the season.

This week the conference discovered that there is still no defense against the infernal contagion. Swift, accurate testing didn't keep the Washington Huskies and Cal Bears from becoming the first in the conference to pay the price.

READ MORE»

The Pac-12 Conference, certain on Aug. 11 it wouldn't have a football season in 2020, instead released a seven-game schedule Saturday, including road openers Nov. 7 for both Washington schools, the Huskies at Cal and the Cougars at Oregon State.

As has become the recent custom, the Apple Cup will again be the day after Thanksgiving, this year Nov. 27 at Martin Stadium in Pullman. It will be the first rivalry game for both head coaches, UW's Jimmy Lake and WSU's Nick Rolovich.

READ MORE»

We assume University of Washington football coach Jimmy Lake made a wise choice of profession, particularly if his second choice was to become a public health official.

In a Zoom conference in mid-August, Lake's understanding of the unanimous decision by the Pac-12 Conference to abandon the 2020 football season was so solid that he said the SEC, ACC and Big 12 would shortly see their collective folly in trying to play in a pandemic when much had to be learned about COVID-19.

READ MORE»

I wish there was the equivalent of an air quality index meter for this sort of thing. Or maybe something like an antigen test. But there is no plausible marker to measure what's happening. So in the absence of a quantifier, I'm going to give it at least an identifier.

The Foghorn Leghorn Seattle Sports Week: A Set of the Most Unheard of Things I've Ever Heard Of.

READ MORE»

For those wondering how the smart people at all the Power 5 universities could look at similar data and come to different conclusions regarding whether to attack or retreat from COVID-19, Huskies rookie head football coach Jimmy Lake has an opinion on that.

"I believe all three other conferences are going to follow suit (canceling) in due time,” Lake said Friday on a Zoom conference with reporters. He believes the information upon which the Pac-12 and Big Ten conferences acted in canceling football and other fall sports for 2020 will become apparent to the SEC, ACC and Big 12.

READ MORE»

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh grabbed a figurative broom Monday morning and began sweeping out the tide. He released a statement pleading for the 2020 college football season to happen.

"I'm not advocating for football this fall because of my passion or our players' desire to play but because of the facts accumulated over the last eight weeks since our players returned to campus on June 13," he wrote. He went on to cite the fact that the Wolverines athletic department has had no positives among the latest 353 players, coaches and staffers tested.

READ MORE»