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ESPNs Buster Olney is on vacation this week, but hes still compiling roundups. View Thursdays roundup here.There are two guarantees every time the Los Angeles Dodgers win a home game. First, Randy Newmans I Love L.A. will blare throughout the stadium as our fans stand to cheer and we slap hands behind the pitchers mound in celebration of the victory. Simultaneously, my 6-year-old son, Luke, will begin his descent toward the home clubhouse. For us, securing the final out means another tally in the win column and one step closer to our postseason goals. But for Luke, a Dodger home win means only one thing: chocolate milk!After a home win last week, Luke walked into the clubhouse and, as usual, danced his way over to my locker as our post-win playlist boomed over the speakers. Instead of his beeline to the players lounge, he asked me a question.Dad, who is the man who talks about the Dodgers on TV?Do you mean Vin Scully? I replied.Yeah, Vin Scowee. I saw him on the elevator. He gave me a high-five and a hug. Hes a nice guy.With that, he was in search of his spoils of victory-- a new fan of the nice guy who talks about his dad and the Dodgers.Someday in the future, Luke will ask me about Vin. I could start by telling him about perhaps my first baseball memory -- that of a 7-year-old boy who got to stay up extra late to watch the first game of the 1988 World Series. How I can still remember Kirk Gibson slugging a 3-2 backdoor slider into the right-field pavilion. How I still remember the voice on the television telling me about the high fly ball into right field and how she is gone! But then I will tell him about how I was recently directed to watch the entire bottom of the ninth inning from that night, and how perhaps our sports most memorable World Series home run call was actually part of the greatest half-inning ever called.I will tell him about joining the Dodgers and how nearly all of my nights ended with me on the MLB app, listening to the highlights of our game, and the chills I got as I heard Vin utter my name describing an RBI single or throwing out a would-be base stealer or how he got me trending on Twitter. Luke will ask, Whats Twitter? (as there is sure to be some new hip social-media device his dad will be too old to understand).I will tell Luke about the man of faith Vin is. How I could count on him to be in our clubhouse every Sunday morning making a cup of coffee as he was on his way to Mass. About how I secretly hoped he was a few minutes early so we could sit and talk in our players lounge about anything.I will tell him about how I built up enough courage over time to ask him a sarcastic question. I asked him which perfect game was his favorite to call. Was it Don Larsens, Sandy Koufaxs or Billy Chapels? He chuckled as only Vin can chuckle and dove into a story about sitting in a studio and doing play-by-play for the movie For Love of the Game while watching the film on the screen.I will definitely tell my son about being part of a nearly perfect game myself. How I was behind the plate as Clayton Kershaw threw a no-hitter and struck out 15 Colorado Rockies in June 2014. I will show him the game but also show him the link I ran across and watch regularly of Vin calling all 27 outs in the game. Hopefully he will see the way Vin allows the tension and drama to build. The way he allows the game, and especially the conclusion, to play out through the buzz of the stadium and the work of the cameras: 0 and 2 ... got him! Hes done it! Thats the way Vin described the final pitch of the dominant performance. And then, 30 seconds of silence as he allowed the pictures and crowd to tell the story.Mostly, and very regularly, I will tell Luke how special it was to be part of the Dodger organization. How the organization that gave us Jackie, Newk and Campy, Sandy and Clayton, had allowed me to wear its uniform. And while wearing that uniform, competing in front of baseballs best fans in baseballs most beautiful ballpark, I was humbled and honored to know that Vin Scully was sitting right above home plate, painting the picture of our great game and, at times, even using me as the paint for his brushstrokes.This past Sunday I spent about 10 minutes with Vin up in his booth. I had to wait for a few moments as he was finishing up meeting with Gerrit Cole of the Pittsburgh Pirates, who made the five-floor journey up to the press box to spend time with Vin in his 67th and final season as the Dodgers broadcaster. Cole joined a long list of visiting players, including Bryce Harper and David Ortiz, who wanted to say goodbye to the greatest sports broadcaster, let alone baseball broadcaster, of all time.We posed for a picture with the perfectly manicured playing surface in the background. We chatted about family and home. I told him about my children, and he proudly told me about his 11-year-old grandson who is a young catcher. I thanked him for his time and made sure to let him know this wasnt goodbye and that I would see him around the ballpark. With that, it was time to go. We both had a ballgame to prepare for. 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I think under the best of circumstances, anybody in the Pac-12 is very tough to play against. Were definitely searching for consistency.Weve played way over our heads, and there are times when we definitely could have played better. Last week, we definitely could have played better in the first half.The Cougars trailed the Beavers 24-6 at halftime before winning, and they were taken to the limit in their two previous games -- against UCLA (27-21 win) and ASU (37-32).Leach says he likes the resiliency of his team, which, as usual is dangerous offensively. WSU averages 39.8 points per game and is third nationally with 372.6 passing yards per game. Junior quarterback Luke Falk ranks second with 365.8 passing yards per game.He denied a report Monday that he would enter the NFL Draft after the season.I dont know where the sources are coming from at all. I havent said anything, Falk said.If I had to make a decision right now, Im definitely staying. This has nothing to do with our season. This is just noise. ... Its kind of frustrating that someone said (you said) something you didnt say. I really dont like dishonest people.Falk threw for 415 yards against Oregon State last week, his 10th career 400-yard game, and increased his career passing yards to 9,351, third-most in school history. Falk threw five touchdown passes, passing Jason Gesser for third in school history with 75 career touchdown passes.Senior wide receiver Gabe Marks became Washington States career leader with 33 touchdown receptions, the second-best mark in Pac-12 history. Markks and fellow senior receiver River Cracraft are the only teammates in league history to each have 200-plus catches at the same time.ddddddddddddArizona, uncharacteristically, is looking for offense under coach Rich Rodriguez.Quarterback health and rustiness have been issues in the past two games -- combined with a lack of a running game -- so the Wildcats have completed only 16 of 46 passes in that stretch.Last week, quarterback Brandon Dawkins was coming back from a one-game absence from a concussion. He has missed parts of two games because of a rib injury before that. Erstwhile starter Anu Solomon did not look sharp Saturday, appearing briefly in two series and wearing a brace on his left knee after missing six games.There are some things in the passing game that looked like we were a little rusty; it looked like the quarterbacks missed some time in practice, which they had, Rodriguez said. We can play better overall at that position and I think we will going forward.The receiving corps doesnt have anyone who demands double-coverage, and attrition at running back has meant that Rodriguez has twice had to start converted receivers at running back in recent weeks. The latest was senior Samajie Grant, who rushed 19 times for 64 yards in a 34-10 loss to Stanford on Saturday night.Those numbers would have looked better if he hadnt reversed field on a run and took a 24-yard loss.We thought he played well, because he is a competitive guy and a good football player, but he was still learning the position, Rodriguez said. As the game went along, Samajie got a little more comfortable with it.Rodriguez said Grant will stay at running back. Dawkins and Solomon were listed as co-starters on this weeks depth chart.Arizona is 11th in the Pac-12 in scoring (24.1 points per game) and figures to have a tough day if its running backs cant get going against the leagues top rush defense. Washington State allows 113.9 rushing yards per game.The Cougars won last years meeting in Tucson, 45-42, but the Wildcats have won four consecutive games in Pullman. ' ' '