![WSU President Kirk Schulz illustration](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2020/07/2020fall-from-the-president.543-2-198x198.jpg)
Collegiate sports
![WSU President Kirk Schulz illustration](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2020/07/2020fall-from-the-president.543-2-198x198.jpg)
![Logo for Cougfan.com](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2023/07/2023fall-spreading-crimson-thumb-198x198.jpg)
Spreading the crimson gospel online
![Profile of Thabiti Lewis](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2023/07/2023fall-thabiti-lewis-thumb-198x198.jpg)
NIL and the business of college sports
![Dick Fry with radio equipment in black and white photo](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2023/04/2023summer-dick-fry-extra-thumb-198x198.gif)
WSU stories by and about Dick Fry on his 100th birthday
Richard B. “Dick” Fry devoted 70 years of his life, good humor, and storytelling skills to Washington State University. The Coug legend turned 100 on February 12, 2023.
Fry was WSU’s sports information director from 1957 to 1970, the university’s director of news and information services until 1985, and author of the definitive book on Cougar sports, The Crimson and the Gray: 100 Years with the WSU Cougars. He continued to write stories for Cougar football game-day programs well into the 2000s.
Here are some stories about Fry and a few of the stories he wrote about WSU sports.
![Derrick Low, clapping, leads the victorious Cougs after defeating Notre Dame in the 2007 NCAA Tournament](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2022/01/2022spring-turn-around-thumb-198x198.jpg)
Turnaround year
![John Chaplin](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2019/01/2019spring-athlete-coach-winner-thumb-198x198.jpg)
Athlete, coach, winner
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Briefly noted
![Illustration David Wheeler](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2017/05/2011winter_essay-198x198.jpg)
Collegiate Athletics in the 21st Century
“Just Win, Baby!” was the motto made famous by legendary Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis. His philosophy was that simple. Along the way the Raiders gained a reputation as one of the dirtiest, most penalized, but successful teams in professional football. Collegiate athletics seems to have adopted Davis’s philosophy as compliance and education are threatened by the very big business of college sports.
In Ballers of the New School: Race and Sports in America, I contend that the system of college athletics no longer works for the realities of the 21st century. There is simply too much media exposure and money at stake. For example, … » More …