Date: 10/20/2015 05:49 AM
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Latest Washington, Oregon and Alaska sports
BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) – A Washington school district says it is negotiating with the football coach who continues to pray after games after district officials asked him not to. Bremerton High assistant coach Joe Kennedy knelt Friday night and prayed. The Kitsap Sun reports players from the other team joined him. The school district says in a statement yesterday that Kennedy’s employment status is unchanged.
SEATTLE (AP) – The status of Washington freshman quarterback Jake Browning is in question for Saturday’s game at No. 10 Stanford after he suffered a shoulder injury late in the Huskies’ loss to Oregon. Washington coach Chris Petersen said Browning was “day-to-day” yesterday, the typical designation Petersen gives for any player who has not suffered a long-term injury.
SHAWANO, Wis. (AP) – A traveling basketball coach from Oregon is charged with sending suggestive text messages to a teenage boy in Wisconsin. Twenty-three-year-old Nicholas R. Bennett was charged yesterday with using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime and attempted child enticement. WBAY-TV reports Bennett, who lives in Portland, Oregon, was ordered to have no contact with anyone under 18 and no access to a computer or the Internet.
RENTON, Wash. (AP) – The Seattle Seahawks are lifting the suspension of fullback Derrick Coleman imposed after he was arrested following a car crash. Seattle coach Pete Carroll announced the decision yesterday and said it would be done as soon as possible. Coleman was released from jail on Friday and King County prosecutors said they would wait until an investigation is complete before deciding whether to file criminal charges.
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