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The latest from the Seattle Times’ Bob Condotta on our University of Washington Husky football team:

It was raining here in Arizona almost enough to do some real surfing. Instead, I stuck to the internet kind, a canceled game leading to some unexpected free time.

— Here’s an interesting national take on expansion from the St. Petersburg Times (thought I’d disagree completely that San Diego State makes much sense).

— Here’s an even more exhaustive look at expansion from The Bleacher Report. It’s well-researched, though as an increasing traditionalist, I shudder a bit at the idea that conferences need to make major moves just to add a few more TV homes. I still wonder if the loss of all the tradition that has built the conference its following in the first place is worth it.

— Here’s a take on why significant realignment of the college football landscape may not happen.

— Just a bonzana of expansion material today as the Boulder Daily Camera had a couple pieces examining what it could mean for Colorado. Here’s a news story, and a column saying that if the Pac-10 asks, the Buffs can’t say no.

— Ken Goe has news of another arrest at Oregon as well as some other Pac-10 links.

— The San Jose Mercury News mentions Jake Locker in an interesting story on college football quarterbacks now trying to play baseball.

All for now.

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The latest from the Seattle Times’ Bob Condotta on our University of Washington Husky football team:

We’ll start with the news that UW offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier has been named to the Idaho Athletic Hall of Fame (which honors athletes from the state, or who represented the state, and not necessarily just the University of Idaho).

Nussmeier was a standout QB at the University of Idaho in the early 1990s, throwing for 10,824 yards in his career.

He will be inducted into the Idaho Athletic Hall of Fame on April 10 , 2010 in Coeur d’Alene.

The other inductees in this year’s hall of fame class are North Idaho native Carissa Yassen who was an all american track star at Purdue, and is now deceased; Kristen Armstrong a olympic gold medal cyclist; Ali Neimann an Idaho native and all Big West basketball player at the U of I; and Dave Triplett who was a football player for the Vandals in the 1960’s. The inductees are pick by a committee that actively researches deserving Idaho athletes and invites anyone who thinks they might have a deserving athlete in mind to submit a bio to the committee. You can find their web site here.

Some other HOF members include Hec Edmunson (he was coach at Idaho before coming to UW), Dennis Erickson, John Friesz, Jerry Kramer, Dan O’Brien, Dee Pickett (father of Cody), and Mark Sclereth.

In other news. …

— Steve Sarkisian was a guest at a speech by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday.

— Ken Goe has the story of Disney giving up the Oregon Duck, and more Pac-10 links.

UPDATE — Should have linked this yesterday, but OSU QB Lyle Moevao was denied his appeal for a sixth year, and this story should help you understand as well why E.J. Savannah was denied.

All for now.

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Friday links, notes — Nussmeier to Idaho Hall of Fame