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Lauren Weldon | Wednesday, April 18, 2018
The first time I listened to Oxford-formed, London-based four-piece ISLAND, I was driving north along the winding Olympic Peninsula of Washington. Maybe it was the narrowly turning, tree-lined highway or maybe it was the ocean’s mist that can engulf cars and suspend any sense of seasonality, but when the track “Stargazer” off their 2015 debut
Alex Carson | Monday, November 21, 2016
There are five zero- or one-loss Power Five teams left in college football this season. Two of them play each other this week, while the other three are all from different conferences. Conventional wisdom says this will be easy enough, right? If Alabama, Clemson and Washington win out, they’re in the four-team playoff, while the
Alex Carson | Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Through four weeks of the college football season, we’ve learned a bit. Louisville has jumped from preseason dark horse to the No. 3 team in the country, Wisconsin might just be the surprise team of the season and Texas A&M is off to a fast start. Wait, that last thing ain’t much of a surprise,
Alex Carson | Monday, September 12, 2016
I do not have a vote in the AP Top 25. Though it would be pretty neat if I did, given I probably put more time and effort into ranking teams in my head than many pollsters actually do. But despite not having a vote, I’m going to rank the 10 teams that have impressed me more
Hunter McDaniel | Tuesday, August 25, 2015
As Notre Dame begins another season in its long and storied history, the Irish kick off a new era under first-year head coach Jim McLaughlin. The only coach to win national championships on both the men’s and women’s sides, including the 1989-90 men’s title for USC and the 2005 women’s title for Washington, McLaughlin led the Huskies to