The Washington State Cougars shut down one of the most potent offenses in the Tourney and the Big East Player of the Year, Luke Harangody, to advance to the Sweet 16. This is the first time in more than 65 years that Wazzu has won two games in the NCAA Tournament--last time, they made it to the national championship game. Coach Tony Bennett motivated his players with a little pre-game reminder of what happened......

Tony Bennett: "I like [Sanjaya] because he dares to be different." Randy: "I can't even comment on [Sanjaya's] vocals, or whatever, anymore." Paula: "Thanks for the dance." Simon: "Incredible." Sanjaya: "Welcome to the Universe of Sanjaya." He actually didn't do too bad last night. He hit the high note and held it without going sour. He slicked his hair back so it didn't steal the spotlight from him, and he dressed in all white, which......

Florida may have won their second straight National Championship last night, however, there will be no three-pete in Gainsville. Once National Coach of the Year Tony Bennett leads his Washington Huskies back on the court in November, they might as well mail the trophy directly to Montlake. UPDATE: According to Sports Illustrated, Bennett's Huskies will have their work cut out for them. In their hella early 2007-2008 rankings they place three Pac-10 teams in......

Via All Cougs, All the Time, Wazzu's athletic dept. announces a press conference at 3:15pm today with athletic director Jim Sterk and men's b-ball head coach Tony Bennett. Since Bennett is appearing at the press conference, seems likely this is to announce a contract extension, not (as we'd hoped) that Bennett's decided to move up to the big time as the Huskies' new women's coach. (jk, Coug fans--we luv ya!) We'll update this post as......

Washington State 70, Oral Roberts 54: Oral Roberts was the trendy upset pick--nearly 25% of ESPN users expected Wazzu to Coug it (by comparison, less than 5% had #3-seed Oregon losing)--but our faith in Wazzu didn't waver. Though it was close at halftime, we predicted that Wazzu would play their typical strangling defense to open the second half, and they proved us right, holding O-Rob to one field goal in the first six minutes of......

USA Today reveals that America's next would-be culture czar is already enthroned as (gulp) the nation's barrista baron. Little did Jerry Baldwin, Ziv Siegl and Gordon Bowker expect, when they sold their modestly successful coffee company to the determined guy they'd once hired to do their marketing, that he'd turn Starbucks into the world's most frequented brand. And yet, and yet. Not satisfied with the company's phenomenal growth, Howard Schultz wants to be even more......

A post in Tuesday's DCist mentioned a campaign in the other Washington to adopt a bland song named "Come to Washington" as an official "city anthem." Then, in a follow-up post, DCist nominated nine other, better songs. Readers voted for their favorites and suggested a few more. The current fave seems to be the Magnetic Fields' awesomely evocative "Washington, D.C." Naturally, this has us pondering songs about Seattle -- not songs by artists from......