http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pac12confidential/index.html en-us Copyright 2013 The Seattle Times Company Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:12:04 PDT Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:12:04 PDT MattBase 1 http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/art/ui/stlogo_231.gif http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ http://blogs.seattletimes.com/pac12confidential/2013/06/17/pac-12-confidential-goes-yard-for-a-couple-of-weeks/?syndication=rss Just a heads-up that I’m off for the next couple of weeks, transitioning from the laptop to the lawn, weeds, landscape timbers and all those yard-related projects that go begging the rest of the year. I’m hoping the place looks better (and my back holds up) until the time I visit this sp Pac-12 Confidential http://blogs.seattletimes.com/pac12confidential/2013/06/17/pac-12-confidential-goes-yard-for-a-couple-of-weeks/?syndication=rss Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:10:19 PDT http://blogs.seattletimes.com/pac12confidential/2013/06/14/si-pulls-the-veil-from-the-secrecy-of-ncaa-enforcement/?syndication=rss Just got around last night to starting Sports Illustrated’s piece this week on problems with NCAA enforcement, and although I haven’t finished it yet, I found it a must-read. (I’d post it here, but it’s a pay-digital site, so I can’t. Instead, I’m linking co-autho Pac-12 Confidential http://blogs.seattletimes.com/pac12confidential/2013/06/14/si-pulls-the-veil-from-the-secrecy-of-ncaa-enforcement/?syndication=rss Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:31:05 PDT http://blogs.seattletimes.com/pac12confidential/2013/06/12/day-after-musings-on-the-apr-in-state-performances-etc/?syndication=rss Tuesday’s annual release by the NCAA of its Academic Progress Rate scores elicited hardly a ripple in these parts, and around most of the country. With fewer exceptions, student-athletes are staying eligible and graduating at a better rate than previously — due, in no small part, to thei Pac-12 Confidential http://blogs.seattletimes.com/pac12confidential/2013/06/12/day-after-musings-on-the-apr-in-state-performances-etc/?syndication=rss Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:16:05 PDT http://blogs.seattletimes.com/pac12confidential/2013/06/10/now-for-something-completely-frivolous-betting-the-13-pac-12/?syndication=rss As you may have seen, a website called Pregame.com came out late last week with early college football spreads. Not early spreads, as in opening-weekend spreads, but early as in all the season’s major games. This is, of course, a fairly ludicrous idea, inasmuch as you can’t go to Nevada Pac-12 Confidential http://blogs.seattletimes.com/pac12confidential/2013/06/10/now-for-something-completely-frivolous-betting-the-13-pac-12/?syndication=rss Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:16:04 PDT http://blogs.seattletimes.com/pac12confidential/2013/06/07/pac-12-announces-hoops-officiating-collaboration-with-mountain-west/?syndication=rss Trying to put behind it the messy Ed Rush/bounty affair of Pac-12 basketball officiating the past few months, the league Friday announced a collaboration with the Mountain West Conference. It will be headed by Bobby Dibler, longtime MWC coordinator of officials and a respected former ref who did a l Pac-12 Confidential http://blogs.seattletimes.com/pac12confidential/2013/06/07/pac-12-announces-hoops-officiating-collaboration-with-mountain-west/?syndication=rss Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:19:38 PDT