After a week off, your hard-working CougCenter authors put their headsets back on and their noses back down to the grindstone. Because talking is hard.

In this week's episode, we talk about the weirdness that is life without postseason Cougar basketball, how Cal and UW might fare in the NCAA Tournament, why television talking heads are dumb, an intriguing contest I'm participating in, and what Johnny Forzani's loss means for the football team.

As usual, you can listen to the audio via the player below, or visit our podcast page for myriad ways to subscribe to all of our audio, including Ken Bone's weekly press conferences. You can also find us in the iTunes directory under keyword "CougCenter," or simply click this link. The advantage of subscribing? Besides having the audio directly delivered to your player of choice, I often upload the audio to the podcast site before posting it here.

Here's the latest episode of the podcast for your listening pleasure. We recap the UW contest, preview the OSU/Oregon road trip, and talk a little baseball.

As usual, you can listen to the audio via the player below, or visit our podcast page for myriad ways to subscribe to all of our audio, including Ken Bone's weekly press conferences. You can also find us in the iTunes directory under keyword "CougCenter," or simply click this link. The advantage of subscribing? Besides having the audio directly delivered to your player of choice, I often upload the audio to the podcast site before posting it here.

The latest episode of the podcast is ready to go, as we discuss the excitement over the hiring of Bill Moos as the next athletic director, opine on what his first steps should be on the job, recap the embarrassing loss to UCLA and encouraging win over USC, and break down just how it is that the Cougs can beat Washington this weekend on Nikola Koprivica day.

Oh, and we talk a little about this. Why? You'll have to listen to find out.

(Not recommended that you click that link above at work, by they way. Also, if your work has something against the word "erection," I wouldn't recommend playing the podcast over your speakers. And lastly, DON'T ACT LIKE YOU'RE NOT IMPRESSED!)

As usual, you can listen to the audio via the player below, or visit our podcast page for myriad ways to subscribe to all of our audio, including Ken Bone's weekly press conferences. You can also find us in the iTunes directory under keyword "CougCenter," or simply click this link. The advantage of subscribing? Besides having the audio directly delivered to your player of choice, I often upload the audio to the podcast site before posting it here.

Well, if the goal of GoCougs was to get us to talk about the best places on campus to live for the first 16 minutes of our podcast, then his sneaky little ploy worked.

If you're not interested learning about that or (if you're an alum) taking a little trip down memory lane with us, our actual sports-related content starts at around the 16:15 mark, when we dive into the potential of Bill Moos as our next athletic director. From there, we talk about the losses in the Bay Area and preview UCLA and USC.

I realize it's only a couple of hours until tipoff for this. Sorry -- I screwed up in bringing my laptop home from work on Tuesday, so we had to record late last night and I wasn't able to get this mixed until after school.

As usual, you can listen to the audio via the player below, or visit our podcast page for myriad ways to subscribe to all of our audio, including Ken Bone's weekly press conferences. You can also find us in the iTunes directory under keyword "CougCenter," or simply click this link. The advantage of subscribing? Besides having the audio directly delivered to your player of choice, I often upload the audio to the podcast site before posting it here.

Back for our weekly yakkity yack. Among the thing discussed are the nice win over Arizona and whether the success can be sustained, the emergence of Brock Motum, whether the defense has truly turned a corner, and whether a sweep on the road in the Bay Area is actually plausible.

Oh, and we also hereby put a moratorium on "Klay is the worst player ever" comments. Prepare to be lectured.

As usual, you can listen to the audio via the player below, or visit our podcast page for myriad ways to subscribe to all of our audio, including Ken Bone's weekly press conferences. You can also find us in the iTunes directory under keyword "CougCenter," or simply click this link. The advantage of subscribing? Besides having the audio directly delivered to your player of choice, I often upload the audio to the podcast site before posting it here.

Grady and Craig carry the mail on the show this week! No, I wasn't late for the bus. It's just the end of the semester, and any of you teachers out there know what that means. Thankfully, it will all be over tomorrow. (Only to start again on Wednesday.)

The fellas talk about the Washington loss, the huge weekend coming up against Arizona State and Arizona, and home court advantages in the Pac-10.

As usual, you can listen to the audio via the player below, or visit our podcast page for myriad ways to subscribe to all of our audio, including Ken Bone's weekly press conferences. You can also find us in the iTunes directory under keyword "CougCenter," or simply click this link. The advantage of subscribing? Besides having the audio directly delivered to your player of choice, I often upload the audio to the podcast site before posting it here.

We're back, although a day later than usual on the site. Busy day yesterday grading papers, and I didn't get a chance to edit the audio until late last night.

Craig, Grady and I talk about Kentucky's loss (as it relates to Ken Pomeroy's rankings), last weekend's split down in Los Angeles, and this weekend's matchup with Washington. Not sure what's up with Craig's ISP that his call quality on Skype drops to the point that it sometimes sounds like he's talking on a cell phone, but whatever.

Also bear in mind we recorded this Tuesday evening.

As usual, you can listen to the audio via the player below, or visit our podcast page for myriad ways to subscribe to all of our audio, including podcasts. You can also find us in the iTunes directory under keyword "CougCenter," or simply click this link. The advantage of subscribing? Besides having the audio directly delivered to your player of choice, I often upload the audio to the podcast site before posting it here.

Here's the latest edition of the podcast, which some of you probably will be disappointed to find out was not influenced at all by alcohol. Craig does, however, introduce us to the possibility of ice cream in your beer. I am not making that up.

We also recap the games against Cal and Stanford (limited a bit by the fact that between the three of us, only one of us got to see one game), what can be done with the rotation to try and get some quicker starts, and try to forecast how we might fare down in Los Angeles.

As usual, you can listen to the audio via the player below, or visit our podcast page for myriad ways to subscribe to all of our audio, including podcasts. You can also find us in the iTunes directory under keyword "CougCenter," or simply click this link. The advantage of subscribing? Besides having the audio directly delivered to your player of choice, I often upload the audio to the podcast site before posting it here.