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WEEKLY RELEASE - NOV. 19, 2012 2012 SCHEDULE/RESULTS APPLE CUP (2-9, 0-8 PAC-12) WASHINGTON DATE OPPONENT TIME/RESULT TV vs. Aug. 30 Brigham Young L, 6-30 ESPN SEPT. 8 EASTERN WASHINGTON W, 24-20 P12W WASHINGTON STATE Sept. 14 UNLV W, 35-27 ESPN 12:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 23 SEPT. 22 COLORADO * L, 34-35 FX Martin Stadium (33,522) 2012 RECORD Pullman, Wash. 2012 RECORD Sept. 29 vs. No. 2 Oregon *& L, 26-51 ESPN2 7-4 (5-3 Pac-12) 2-9 (0-8 Pac-12) Oct. 6 No. 14 Oregon State * L, 6-19 P12N OCT. 13 CALIFORNIA * L, 17-31 P12N TV PAC-12 NETWORKS Oct. 27 No. 19 Stanford * L, 17-24 P12N Nov. 3 Utah * L, 6-49 P12N WASHINGTON STATE IMG COLLEGE SPORTS NETWORK RADIO NOV. 10 NO. 17 UCLA * L, 36-44 ESPN2 Nov. 17 Arizona State * L, 7-46 P12N COUGARS SET TO HOST APPLE CUP FRIDAY: Washington State closes out the season hosting NOV. 23 WASHINGTON * 12:30 p.m. FOX Washington in the 105th annual Apple Cup Friday at Martin Stadium. Kickoff is scheduled for 12:30 * Pac-12 Conference Game p.m. on FOX. ** All times and dates are subject to change *** P12W - Pac-12 Networks (Washington) WASHINGTON STATE TO HONOR 13 ON SENIOR DAY: Prior to Friday’s season finale, Washington & The Seattle Game (CenturyLink Field) Home games in BOLD State will honor 13 seniors who will be playing their final game in Martin Stadium. That list includes All times Pacific Phillp Brandt, Adam Coerper, Steven Hoffart, Wade Jacobson, Corey Laufasa, Andrei Lintz, Travis Long, Taylor Meighen, Daniel Simmons, Gino Simone, Tyree Toomer, Jeff Tuel and Carl Winston. WASHINGTON STATE ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS APPLE CUP HISTORY: Dating back to the first meeting between the Huskies and Cougars in 1900, a 5-5 tie in Seattle, Washington leads the 104-game series by a 67-31-6 margin. From 1934-61 the win- OFFICE ADDRESS: Bohler Addition 195 ner of the cross-state rivalry was awarded the Governor’s Trophy. In 1962 the Apple Cup trophy was Pullman, WA 99164-1602 instituted, and Washington holds a 35-14 record in Apple Cup games since then. The teams have split OFFICE PHONE: 509-335-COUG the last eight Apple Cups, with UW winning the last three. The Cougars last Apple Cup victory came OFFICE FAX: 509-335-0267 in 2008, posting a 16-13 double-overtime win in Martin Stadium. Washington holds a 16-13-1 advan- MARTIN STADIUM PRESS BOX: 509-335-COUG tage when playing in Pullman, although the teams have split the last four meetings in Martin Stadium. ASSOC. A.D./ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS: Bill Stevens OFFICE PHONE: 509-335-4294 MIKE LEACH RADIO SHOW: Washington State Head Coach Mike Leach holds a weekly radio show CELL: 916-761-7005 on WSU’s flagship station 920 KXLY live from Zeppoz in Pullman. This week’s show will be Wednes- EMAIL: [email protected] day from 6-7 p.m. SPORTS: Football, Women’s Tennis ASST. DIRECTOR: Bobby Alworth OFFICE PHONE: 509-335-5785 BOARD FOR REGENTS APPROVES FOOTBALL OPERATIONS BUILDING: The Washington State Uni- CELL: 951-452-6129 versity Board of Regents gave approval for a $61 million football operation building to be constructed EMAIL: [email protected] beginning this month, it was announced last Friday. The Regents approved the project by a unani- SPORTS: Football, Women’s Basketball mous vote. The new building will provide the football program with a new weight, locker, equipment ASST. DIRECTOR: Linda Chalich and training rooms for players, in addition to meeting rooms and coaches’ offices. It will also feature OFFICE PHONE: 509-335-0268 a WSU Football heritage area and a game-day home for Gray W former letter winners. The construc- EMAIL: [email protected] tion process begins the Monday after the Apple Cup with completion expected to be in June, 2014. SPORTS: Volleyball, Cross Country, Track & Field ASST. DIRECTOR: Craig Lawson OFFICE PHONE: 509-335-0265 COLLEGE GAMEDAY RECORD: In addition to Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit and Lee Corso, ESPN’s EMAIL: [email protected] College GameDay has had another constant – the WSU flag, which this weekend will be making its SPORTS: Women’s Soccer, Baseball, 130th consecutive appearance on the weekly show, dating back to the beginning of the 2004 season. Men’s & Women’s Golf Two flags – Ol’ Crimson and Gray – have been flown in the background of the GameDay set by dozens ASST. DIRECTOR: Jessica Schmick of friends and alumni. The Gray flag was added this year after Whitey was retired in honor of Steve OFFICE PHONE: 509-335-0255 Gleason’s “No White Flags.” WSU recognized the GameDay flag wavers in a pregame ceremony EMAIL: [email protected] prior to the Montana State game in 2010. In addition to the flags that fly, there is a traveling flag SPORTS: Men’s Basketball, Rowing signed by the holders after each episode. The traveling flag is retired after each season, the first of which is hanging in WSU’s Alumni Center. DEFENSE RACKING UP THE SACKS: The Washington State defense tallied four more sacks at Arizona State to enter the week fifth in the Pac-12 Conference and tied for No. 11 in the country with 32 sacks. Following a year in which the Cougars recorded 17 all of the season, the switch to a 3-4 defense has seen more linebackers in the backfield as 23 of the 32 sacks have come from linebackers. The Cougars have also racked up 85 tackles-for-loss, fourth-most in the Pac-12 and seventh in the country. The 32 sacks are the most by a Cougar defense since the 2006 team had 34 while the 85 tackles-for-loss are the most since the 2004 team had 89. WSUCOUGARS.COM 2012 COUGAR FOOTBALL PAC-12 CONFERENCE MEDIA INFORMATION STANDINGS AUDIO ON INTERNET: WSU’s football broad- PAC-12 TELECONFERENCE: The Pac-12 Confer- NORTH DIVISON casts are available on the Internet through ence hosts a weekly teleconference call each Pac-12 Overall Oregon 7-1 10-1 WSU’s web provider CBS College Sports. The Tuesday during the football season. The telecon- Stanford 7-1 9-2 address is: www.wsucougars.com, then use the ference call begins at 9:55 a.m., PT, while Mike Oregon State 6-2 8-2 Connect link near the top of the page and go to Leach participates at 10:55 a.m. Contact the Washington 5-3 7-4 Cougars all Access. Pac-12 media relations office at 925-932-4411 for California 2-7 3-9 details and call-in information. Washington State 0-8 2-9 WSU TICKETS: WSU football tickets are avail- able online at www.wsucougars.com, by click- LEACH AND STUDENT-ATHLETE AVAILABILITY: SOUTH DIVISON ing on the “Tickets” link on the front page. Tick- WSU head football coach Mike Leach is avail- Pac-12 Overall UCLA 6-2 9-2 ets are available online 24 hours a day, up until able for individual media interviews following USC 5-4 7-4 the day before the game. All orders processed practices Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Arizona State 4-4 6-5 online can be mailed up to 10 days prior to the along with after each Cougar game. Arrange- Arizona 4-4 7-4 game. After that all online orders will be held ments for interviews with coach Leach other Utah 2-6 4-7 for pickup at Will Call. For any questions about than those times must be made through the WSU Colorado 1-7 1-10 WSU tickets, please call 1-800-Go-Cougs, Option Athletic Communications office. WSU players 1, during business hours (Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.- are available for interviews after each game LAST WEEK’S RESULTS 4:30 p.m.). and then during Monday’s weekly press confer- SATURDAY, NOV. 17 Washington def. COLORADO, 38-3 ence. Three student-athletes will be brought to ARIZONA STATE def. Washington State, 46-7 WSUCOUGARS.COM: WSU releases, statistics, the press conference at 12:30 p.m. and will be UCLA def. USC, 38-28 notes and depth chart information are loaded available at that time. There will be no student- Stanford def. OREGON, 17-14 (OT) weekly on the WSU Athletics Home Page. The athlete availability following practices during Arizona def. UTAH, 34-24 address is: http://www.wsucougars.com. game week. Contact Bill Stevens (wsstevens@ OREGON STATE def. California, 62-14 wsu.edu) or Bobby Alworth (bobby.alworth@ COUGAR ATHLETICS ON THE WEB: Connect wsu.edu) in the WSU Athletic Communications THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE with Washington State University Athletics on Office. Media are reminded that they should not FRIDAY, NOV. 23 Utah at COLORADO, Noon (FX) the web at WSUCougars.com, the official web- contact student-athletes via their cell phones or Washington at WASHINGTON STATE, 12:30 p.m. (FOX) site of Cougar Athletics, and on Twitter (twitter. social media accounts. All interviews need to be Arizona State at ARIZONA, 7 p.m. (ESPN) com/WSUCougars_com), Facebook (facebook. scheduled through the Athletic Communications com/WSUCougarAthletics) and YouTube (you- Office. SATURDAY, NOV. 24 tube.com/WSUCougarAthletics) during the 2012 Oregon at OREGON STATE, Noon (P12N) season. MIKE LEACH RADIO SHOW: Head coach Mike Stanford at UCLA, 3:30 p.m. (FOX) Leach holds a weekly radio show on WSU’s flag- Notre Dame at USC, 5 p.m. (ABC) ship station 920 KXLY live from Zeppos in Pull- PAC-12 PLAYERS OF THE WEEK (Week 12) man.