Date: 10/12/2012 05:36 AM
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Here is the latest Washington, Oregon and Alaska sports news from The Associated Press
RENTON, Wash. (AP) – A year after making the transition from Canadian Football League player to Pro Bowl cornerback, Brandon Browner is continuing to prove his value to the Seattle Seahawks. Browner came up with two key plays to help the Seahawks earn their first road win of the season, a 16-12 victory over the Carolina Panthers last Sunday, including a strip and fumble recovery that helped shift the momentum back in Seattle’s favor. He later teamed with Marcus Trufant to stop the Panthers’ Louis Murphy at the 1 on a critical third and goal in the fourth quarter. Browner joined the Seahawks last year.
PROVO, Utah (AP) – He grew up in Ghana, goes by “Ziggy” and actually tried out for the Brigham Young basketball team. Yet the guy with a 39-inch vertical jump and arms that reach well above the rim instead has been wreaking havoc on the football field for a Cougars defense ranked fifth nationally and No. 1 against the run entering Saturday’s game against No. 10 Oregon State. To think Ezekiel Ansah didn’t even know how to put on his pads three years ago. The senior actuarial major has been racking up the stats in just his third season playing football – ever.
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) – The Washington State basketball team that opens practice tonight will be radically different from the team that finished 19-18 last season. Gone to graduation are Marcus Capers, Faisal Aden and Abe Lodwick. Patrick Simon and Mike Harthun transferred. Reggie Moore, a senior who would have been the starting point guard, was kicked off the team recently for an unspecified violation of team rules. But top returnees include senior forward Brock Motum, the top scorer in the Pac-12 last season at 18 points per game.
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