Here is your Week 6 podcast, and with it I offer this bit of news: The Central Section has rescinded its decision on Wasco's forfeit to Fresno-McLane.

Wasco athletic director Raul Rangel told me that section commissioner Jim Crichlow told him earlier today that the Tigers' scheduled Week 5 game with McLane would be a "no contest" rather than a Wasco forfeit.

If you don't remember, the rub was that McLane had asked Wasco to move the game to Thursday because it didn't have use of a field Friday. Wasco said no, citing academic reasons — pretty good ones, when you consider WUHS is a California School Improvement Program school and needs kids' grades and test scores to improve as mandated by the state government.

Anyway, Wasco tried to reschedule for Saturday and also offered to host the game and give McLane 50 or 75 percent of the gate profit. McLane said no to all of those requests, and so the game was canceled. Crichlow said it was Wasco that failed to honor the teams' contract and so gave the Tigers a forfeit loss — one that wouldn't come into play during playoff seeding meetings.

That last point makes today's decision basically moot anyway, but I think for Rangel it was the principle of the forfeit. He didn't think Wasco had forfeited, and I don't blame him for that. Today, Crichlow changed his mind (Rangel said Crichlow told him he had "new information") and said the game would count on neither team's record.

Like I said last week, we all have to remember that academic concerns should come first. Kudos to Wasco for putting them there, and kudos to Crichlow and the Central Section for eventually coming to the right decision, too.

Anyway, with that behind us, (if only we could put the David Fanucchi item to bed as well!) we can move on to the gridiron for Week 6. A gameday post will be up in the morning. Enjoy it, everybody.