John McGrath: UW’s Mathis, sack machine, embraces maturity and parenthood

Baby Joe recently relocated to California, for the duration of the school year, with his mother, who attends Cal State-Northridge. Mathis grew up about 50 miles away, in Ontario, and returns now and then. He’s happy if acquaintances don’t recognize him as the grump who, as he put it, “was angry at the world, always asking, ‘Why this, why that?’