The recap of villains #11-7, which can be found here: 11, Jim McIlvaine; 10, Shaun Alexander; 9, David Stern; 8, Erik Bedard; 7, Jeff Smulyan.
6. Tyrone Willingham. There’s a theory in dating that says if you aren’t very good looking, then you better have a great personality to make up for it. Apparently Paint-Dry Ty felt he was either the exception to this rule growing up, or was one hell of a sexy guy. Either way, the soon-to-be former head coach of the Washington Huskies football team has had without a doubt one of the most scrutinized tenures of any coach or manager in Seattle sports history, thanks in large part to two factors: his complete lack of personality and his inability to win ballgames.
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Yep, by now I’m sure most of you are aware. The Husky football continued their dismal season by falling 27-7 to Rick Neuheisel’s UCLA Bruins, while the men’s basketball team kicked off their season with a 80-74 defeat at the hands of the Portland Pilots.
The Husky athletic program is setting new standards for loseability. The football team I can understand, because they’ve had nearly three months to flaunt their awfulness. But I figured the basketball team would give us something to root for, and last night that wasn’t the case. We expected an athletic team capable of running all over opponents and playing better defense than a year ago. What we got was a team making the same mistakes, playing similar D, and missing the same shots on the offensive end.
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Just to let you all know, tomorrow afternoon we’ll be posting villains 6-2 in our Top 11 countdown, along with a poll shortly thereafter on your choice for “most villainized” amongst the group. Our #1 villain will appear on Monday in a special feature. We’re going to play out that sequence for the Top 11 for the foreseeable future, with the initial 11-7 grouping on Thursday each week (even though the first edition came out last Wednesday), the 6-2 group appearing on Sunday, and the #1 on our list being specially featured on Monday.
Also tomorrow, we’ll have an article up on the Mariners and what they should with Ichiro Suzuki, in case any of you are interested in that.
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The Oregon State Men’s Basketball team went on the road to Howard last night and dropped a close one, 47-45, to the Bison. After the game, Beaver Head Coach Craig Robinson issued this quote about the state of his program:
“It won’t take me 20 months to turn this program around” Robinson said. “It’s going to take longer than that. This is different. We have to recruit some better players, we have to get better at what we’re doing, and we have to change the culture from losing to winning.” (The full context of this quote can be read here: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recapgameId=283190047)
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