Don Ruiz has been covering the Pac-10 Conference for The News Tribune since 2002 and Huskies basketball since 2004, and has been beat reporter for UW football and WSU sports. Don also coordinates the Sounders Insider blog.
Todd Milles began covering Huskies football in 2009. He has been with The News Tribune sports department since 1994 covering a variety of sports, including high schools, small colleges and golf. He also coordinates the Golf Blog.
Todd Milles | July 31, 2009
Lost a little bit amid the grunting gridiron followers, coaches,
players and media at the Pacific-10 Conference's football media day
Thursday were a few revealing snippets from new commissioner Larry
Scott.
Scott, a former Harvard athlete, left his director position at the
WTA (women's tennis) last March to accept the position as the Pac-10
commissioner, replacing Tom Hansen, who retired after [...]
Todd Milles | July 30, 2009
WASHINGTON HUSKIES
Points to consider: New coach Steve Sarkisian had a light-hearted approach from the get-go, and relayed an amusing story about his job to lead off. He talked about driving over the Hwy. 520 bridge every morning to Husky Stadium. Every time the stadium comes into view, he said he felt compelled to call somebody, [...]
Todd Milles | July 30, 2009
WASHINGTON STATE COUGARS
Points to consider: Coach Paul Wulff noted the Cougars
have increased their physicality overall, particularly on defense where
he thinks that unit should be much-improved. … There will be a
quarterback battle this fall camp among Marshall Lobbestael, Kevin
Lopina and J.T. Levenseller. The winner will be asked to lead a
no-huddle attack, something Wulff abandoned because of [...]
Todd Milles | July 30, 2009
By the power of journalistic persuasion, seven-time defending
Pacific-10 Conference champion Southern California should have an easy
time making it eight in a row in 2009.
The Trojans (316 points) were the overwhelming choice by beat
reporters up and down the West Coast, garnering 28 of the 32 votes in
the preseason poll Thursday, released hours before the start of [...]
Todd Milles | July 29, 2009
Barely escaping the scorching 100-plus-degree temperatures in the
Greater Puget Sound – my morning flight Wednesday out of Sea-Tac
Airport was delayed 90 minutes by a fuel spill on the tarmac – things
in Los Angeles surprisingly have been more serene.
For starters, it's a whole 30 degrees cooler in the vicinity of the media hotel.
And traffic wasn't so [...]
Todd Milles | July 28, 2009
PACIFIC-10 CONFERENCE FOOTBALL MEDIA DAY
When: Thursday.
Where: Sheraton Gateway LAX Hotel, Los Angeles.
Schedule:
• Washington State coach Paul Wulff and lineman Kenny Alfred, 9:45 to 10 a.m.
• Washington coach Steve Sarkisian and linebacker Donald Butler, 10 to 10:15 a.m.
• UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel and linebacker Reggie Carter, 10:15 to 10:30 a.m.
• Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh and tailback [...]
Todd Milles | July 26, 2009
UW has confirmed that it has hired Lindsay Meggs as the program's new baseball coach.
Meggs, who has been coaching at Indiana State, will be officially introduced at a Monday morning press conference.
Todd Milles | July 24, 2009
... and it didn't start -- and won't end -- with Kentwood's 6-9 270-pound prize, Josh Smith.
Here's a look from the Los Angeles Times.
Todd Milles | July 24, 2009
A good early look at the Pac-10 men's basketball teams for the upcoming season is online at the Pac-10 site.
By the way, you can now get instant alerts to new UW basketball posts on this blog by following along at twitter.com/donruiztnt.
Todd Milles | July 24, 2009
Here's a feature from this morning's paper on once and future Husky Brandon Prideaux.
He was a key player during the very best years of UW soccer, now is
ending a long MLS career with the Chicago Fire (who visit Qwest Field
at noon Saturday) and in January will return to UW as an assistant
soccer coach.
