PULLMAN — Keith Brown’s eyes were burning and his heart was racing. His face had turned red under the Wednesday afternoon sun, which skyrocketed temperatures well past 90 degrees on Washington State’s first day of fall camp, making even one of the Cougars’ best-conditioned athletes feel he was hitting the wall.

But right before his sixth play of a grueling stretch of eight straight, the veteran linebacker realized something.

“It’s my last year,” Brown said he told himself. “You know what, no one cares. Let’s just do it.”

So Brown finished the play, one of the final in the second part of the Cougars’ first day of fall camp.

The camp was split into two sessions — one in the morning and one in the afternoon, which will be the structure for each of the next two days before WSU practices on

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