Cougars: October 2008

Tickets for the Cougars men's basketball progam will go on sale soon. You can buy single game tickets October 25th at 10am. The pre-sale begins October 20th. You can check out all the details on the press release after the jump.

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The Cougars starting quarterback Marshall Lobbestael will miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL & MCL. At first they thought it was only an MCL tear, but further tests revealed the ACL tear. Typically, that type of surgery requires nine months of rehab. Lobbestael is the third WSU starting quarterback to go down to injury. Gary Rogers has a cervical spine fracture. He's done for the season Kevin Lopina broke a bone in his back. But Lopina could be back this week. Is the state of Washington cursed for sports? Between the Huskies, Cougars, Seahawks, Mariners, Sonics (gone), and Storm (LJ injury), there's been enough bad luck to make the Cubs look like lucky leprechauns.

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Wazzu held a quarterback tryout on Monday. Head coach Paul Wulff had 29 current students attempt to make the team. With all the injuries at the position, Wulff needed a scout team QB. He whittled it down to four on Monday night. Today, Wulff picked one. It's former Woodinville high school QB Peter Roberts. The Cougars sent out a press release. It's below:

Quarterback Peter Roberts Joins Cougar Football Team

PULLMAN, Wash. - Following a tryout Monday afternoon at Rogers Field, Washington State University Head Coach Paul Wulff announced Tuesday that freshman quarterback Peter Roberts has been added to the Cougar football team.

"He's a very smart kid," Wulff said. "All we're asking him to do is help our scout team and help our defense. He's got some athletic ability, he's got enough arm and he's played quarterback. I think he can help us."

Roberts, a 6-foot-1, 190-pound Woodinville, Wash., native, was a three-year letterwinner in football at Woodinville High School, earning second-team All-KingCo honors as a senior. Roberts completed 128 of 230 passes for 1,571 yards, eight touchdowns and eight interceptions as a senior. As a junior Roberts was honorable mention All-KingCo after completing 96 of 207 passes for 1,371 yards, seven touchdowns and nine interceptions.

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Can you believe it? There's an actual movie about former Cougars QB Ryan Leaf. Deadspin.com had an article about it. If you want to see the NFL Network's interview with the director/writer/actor of the movie, click here. The official title of the movie is call "Leaf: The Movie". Here's the film's myspace page. It was released this year. Apparently, the director wants to air it in Seattle at some point and time, but there are no plans as of yet. I can't believe it's a very positive flick. It sounds like he's focusing on Leaf's years in San Diego. By the way, the docudrama won an Accolade Award-honorable mention.

UPDATE: I just talked to the director/writer/actor Tim Carr. He says he's in talks with the Seattle International Film Festival to show the movie. Plus, he's talking to a few other outlets in mind to get his film screened. Carr wants to show it for free for all the fans. So, who knows, "Leaf: The Movie" maybe coming to Seattle soon.

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