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- More doom and gloom for Lorenzo Romar and Co., as the Huskies dropped their fifth straight Sunday to Oregon State. Caple wonders where it all went wrong.
- Washington hosted its Junior Day this weekend, and several 2016 and 2017 players came away with ear-to-ear grins and scholarship offers. Kirk has the details for you.
- Dawgman also posted plenty of Junior Day stories (most of them behind their paywall), and posted a podcast recapping much of the same.
- Danny Shelton, Hau'oli Kikaha, Shaq Thompson and Marcus Peters earned invitations to the NFL Combine. You might notice a certain No. 2 is not featured in that list.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Among my biggest Combine snubs: Georgia DL Ray Drew, WVU DE Shaq Riddick, GTech OL Shaq Mason, Arizona WR Austin Hill, UW WR Kasen Williams</p>— Rob Rang (@RobRang) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobRang/status/563826631215546369">February 6, 2015</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> - Well, this is just great. Now I'm going to spend the entire offseason having Vietnam flashbacks to Sept. 6, 2014.
Former Eastern Washington QB Vernon Adams has committed to Oregon (transfer). Needless to say, vital pickup for Ducks.
— David Lombardi (@LombardiESPN) February 9, 2015 - In other news about that team down south, Mark Helfrich has earned himself a nice little payday.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>BREAKING <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Oregon?src=hash">#Oregon</a> & Mark Helfrich agree on a new deal at $17.5 million for 5 years, source told <a href="https://twitter.com/FOXSports">@FoxSports</a>.</p>— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) <a href="https://twitter.com/BruceFeldmanCFB/status/564931586706006016">February 9, 2015</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> - Braden Bishop of the baseball team hosted a Q&A session on Twitter today at 2:30 p.m. Click on the hashtag below to see the questions Husky Nation posed to him, and read Mason Kelley's profile about Bishop's work to raise money for research into Alzheimer's disease.
Have a question for @UW_Baseball's Braden Bishop? Join him for a Q&A today at 2:30 p.m. #AskBraden pic.twitter.com/Kzrcfb1RFw
— Washington Huskies (@UWAthletics) February 9, 2015 - The football team wasn't the only UW athletics program to sign its newest class of members last week.