Heffernan gets a Brazilian

While we're sure there's a faction out there, somewhere, that was hoping this article was about Washington State head honcho Brian Heffernan getting some kind of masochistic body waxing, it's not. Instead, Heffernan has made another hire, sort of. Brazilian Edgard da Gama e Silva Filho joins the Cougars as a volunteer assistant with the longest possible name. But don't worry about memorizing all of that because Filho "goes by the name Dega."

I think that's what Cher did, too. Rumor is her real name was Maria Sofia e Silva Skibinski.

Heffernan is super amped about his new hire, telling us that "Dega brings a tremendous skill set, knowledge base and expertise to our program." Not to mention a shiny pipeline to immense reservoirs of Brazilian talent, no doubt. But please, by all means, go with the "skill set" stuff.