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Bud Withers

Woodinville
As seen in: The Seattle Times, Miami Herald, The Oregonian, The Sacramento Bee, Wichita Eagle, The Modesto Bee, Portland Tribune, On Montlake
Inky wretch-author (latest: Mad Hoops”); creaky runner; hell-bent gardener/landscaper; old enough to recall when jocks merely had skills, not “skill sets”
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‘Too Good to Be Through’ unearths UW-WSU Apple Cup rivalry memories Original

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By Bud Withers
| The Seattle Times
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from “Too Good to Be Through,” written by former longtime Seattle Times reporter Bud Withers. The book, available now, looks back at the long history of the Apple Cup rivalry and makes the case for why it needs to continue, even in these roiled, realignment times. ●●● RICK NEUHEISEL CAN TELL YOU about Apple Cup victories, because he never lost any of the four games he coached.
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Excerpt: 'Too Good to be Through' explores Apple Cup history in depth

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By Bud Withers
| On Montlake
The Chris Petersen era of Washington football was one of the most successful in school history — if relatively short, at six years. His teams handled the Apple Cup famously, winning all six and never getting a stern challenge from Cougar teams in what was also a prominent period in WSU lore.
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Something new: A weekly menu of sports book reviews — Kerry Eggers

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By Kerry Eggers , Bud Withers
| kerryeggers.com
As a service to our readers — the ones who enjoy sports books — we’ll critique an offering a week from now until Christmas. The first one is a book written by one of my favorite writers and a great guy familiar to sports fans in this area. Bud Withers worked for a long time for the Seattle Times and P-I, but before that was with the Register-Guard in Eugene, where he came across one of the most polarizing figures ever to hit the Northwest college basketball scene.
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