Too Good to Be Through

The Apple Cup football rivalry matching Washington and Washington State surely isn't one of college football's most heated or hotly contested. But it's the college game's most distinctive, matching two schools disparate in population, geography, climate, curriculum offering and political persuasion. Washington holds better than a two-thirds victory majority in the 125-year series, but that doesn't necessarily dull the appetite among fans on either side for a spicy rivalry marked even at its...