SECOND-YEAR WASHINGTON STATE baseball coach Nathan Choate and his Cougars enter their first season of two in the Mountain West Conference, and the consensus appears bullish on the Cougars' chances ...

The Mountain West Conference said Thursday ... The once-storied conference nearly folded when all its programs besides Washington State and Oregon State left to join the Big Ten and Atlantic ...

(All six are scheduled to join the conference ... 12’s total while Washington State’s visit to New Mexico, which drew 244,000 on FS1, was assigned to the new Mountain West.

The Pac-12 and Mountain West appear closer to resolving their legal fights over the latest conference realignment ... Oregon State and Washington State signed a football scheduling agreement ...