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Morning links: Meet the new WSU offensive line, it’s the same as the old one

Joe Dahl, Gunnar Eklund, Riley Sorenson, Eduardo Middleton and Cole Madison. Those names ring a bell? If not, you must not have watched any WSU football last season.

Washington State returns all five starters off last year's offensive line. OK, that's cheating because Jacob Seydel and Sam Flor each got a few starts as well. Oh, they're back too. So, offensive line coach Clay McGuire hasn't had to learn new names this spring and the Cougars are as experienced as anybody at the position where experience is most important.

I wrote about WSU's veteran offensive line in the story for today's paper. Before practice yesterday we held a live chat here on the blog. Don't worry if you missed it, we've got the whole thing transcribed here.  After practice I wrote up this report detailing what I saw.

A high school teammate of former WSU cornerback Daquawn Brown tweeted that he's headed to Fresno State. … Utah had a tumultuous offseason, but has enough going right to get past it. … The UW basketball team had three players transfer out. Now, guys are transferring in



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