Results tagged “cougars”

Now that Ken Bone has been named the head coach at Wazzu, we implore the students to name their section The Bone Zone. They will definitely surpass the Cameron Crazies and Romarville. Oh, and we demand full credit at all times.

Ready For The Apple Cup by DownWithPants

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity to win a college football game, would you capture it, or just let it slip?

• Capitol Hill Seattle covered the breaking news of a police stand-off that closed Cal Anderson Park yesterday.
• Ballard institution Zesto's passed their health inspection this go-round after last year's epic fail.
• George W. is in elite company for sucking. He's surpassed Nixon's unenviable record of the worst performing market since Herbert Hoover.

Seattlest is sitting here on this gorgeous, sunny day, watching a little Oprah. Then, the news came on and we heard tell of cougar attacks in West Olympia. Yeah, we thought "hot old lady," too, but apparently no. Apparently it's an actual cougar.

• Gothamist was shocked when someone scaled the 52-story New York Times building's exterior on Thursday. And then Gothamist was shocked again when a second person scaled the building six hours later.

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As a Husky fan, Seattlest could simply not sit quietly as this story made the local news rounds. Pullman, Wash., home of Washington State University, has approved a new city ordinance to make fist-fighting a civil infraction. The ordinance passed Tuesday and will go into effect next week. After which, if you happen to get caught in fisticuffs in Pullman, expect to pay a $250 fine.

The brackets are set for the men's NCAA Tournament--expect productivity at work to continue on a downward spiral as the week goes on. Carve out a couple hours in your schedule in the next three days to research and fill out your brackets for your office pool. Rick Neuheisel knows what we’re talking about. Or, you could select your winners based on mascots, school colors, or blind guessing. Those always seem to work for some lucky S.O.B. in the office pool.

With the Huskies losing last night, their chance at the NIT are not looking good. Luckily there are two teams on the eastside of the mountains keeping hope alive for the State of Washington in the NCAA Tourney.

Fall? No. College football season. We hate it. Specifically, we hate the Cougar/Husky rivalry. Why? Because we don't care. We went to a microscopic liberal arts college in the midwest. But we hear about it anyway. It's easier to avoid Packer-themed jibber-jabber in the shadow of Green Bay than it is to avoid Dawgs and Cougs exchanging antique insults and warmed-over jokes originally told about more interesting teams. We're sick of mass emails sent to...