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A suddenly promising look to Seattle sports

Posted Sun, Jan 4, 1 p.m.

The Husky basketball team beats the Cougars impressively, with many players showing confidence

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Six New Year's wishes

Posted Sun, Dec 28, 6 a.m.

New leadership, new hopes. And how about some smart decisions on some key issues?

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End of a dead-end Husky season

Posted Sat, Dec 6, 4:34 p.m.

Well, there's this. Of 120 NCAA football programs, the Huskies were 117th. And this: there's a new coach.

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Willingham wins another: the blame game

Posted Sun, Nov 23, 10:49 a.m.

A dubious sideline call with a minute to go and the Huskies ahead results in a 16-13 Apple Cup loss to the Cougars

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For Husky fans, even booing Rick Neuheisel is no fun

Posted Sun, Nov 16, 4 p.m.

The unloved former coach brings UCLA to town for another drubbing of the Huskies. Bad-boy coaches finish with lucrative settlements. Good-guy coaches finish just plain last.

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The Seahawks' eastern standard crime

Posted Sun, Nov 9, 6:21 p.m.

As usual, they can't win while "jet-lagged."

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A word of support for Tyrone Willingham

Posted Sat, Nov 1, midnight

He's a decent man who inherited more problems than he could turn around in his brief tenure, argues this UW alum.

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It's football blight in Seattle

Posted Sun, Oct 5, 3 p.m.

The uncanny synchronicity of the University of Washington Huskies and the Seahawks.

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With Jake Locker injured, 0-12 is a real possibility

Posted Sun, Sep 28, 11 a.m.

The University of Washington football team lost twice Saturday to Stanford.

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One man's one-man team

Posted Sun, Aug 31, 11 a.m.

Biding time until coach Tyrone Willingham is gone, cranky University of Washington football fans at least get to watch an NFL quarterback prospect excel. Jake Locker does so in spite of those around him.

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Chopp, Chopp! The method in the speaker's maddening ways

Posted Wed, Apr 2, 5 a.m.

How Frank Chopp rules Olympia, and why he left the Sonic saviors sputtering. He's become a classic political boss, but he also remains true to the values of helping the poor.

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Hoop hopes are high for the Huskies, but the Sonics seem like goners

Posted Sun, Jan 20, 1 p.m.

The University of Washington men's team is showing promising signs of turning around the season. The Sonics seem to have promised to perform as poorly as possible to hasten an exit to Oklahoma.

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2007 in review: 10 to remember from the wide world of sports

Posted Wed, Dec 26, 1 a.m.

It was come and go time for sports stars, coaches and of course, a whole team.

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The Huskies and Hawks both stuff some Bears

Posted Sun, Nov 18, 8 p.m.

Both teams gain some redemption with wins at home over the weekend. The Dawgs enter next week's Apple Cup at 4-7, while the Seahawks lead the NFC West with a 6-4 record.

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Shouldn't we just pay college football players?

Posted Mon, Nov 12, 2 p.m.

Seeing another Husky risk paralysis is a good time to remember that in big-time college sports, everyone gets money except those taking risks on the field.

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Political direct mail: That other guy is a kissing cousin of Karl Rove!

Posted Sun, Oct 28, 9 p.m.

In Seattle, election messages have been sharpened for mailboxes, and not just any mailboxes. Here's how a direct-mail campaign works – or how it's supposed to work.

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Renovate Husky Stadium? Banish them to Qwest Field

Posted Sun, Oct 28, 5 p.m.

Or perhaps a high-school stadium. In any event, the University of Washington has a football program in trouble, and has been for a long time, and venue would seem to be the least of the school's problems.

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Seattle football follies: Oh well, it's early

Posted Sun, Sep 16, 9 p.m.

The Seahawks and the Huskies have a character-building weekend.

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The torch is passed from baseball to Jake Locker

Posted Sat, Sep 1, 10 a.m.

The University of Washington quarterback phenom didn't disappoint in the Husky football opener, just as the Mariners were losing their seventh straight.

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All things are still possible at Seattle sports venues

Posted Mon, Aug 20, 10 a.m.

The Mariners haven't been eliminated, the Storm and Sounders are headed for the playoffs, football season hasn't begun. Time to put your money down.

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Other media

UW to pay assistant football coach $2.1 million over three years Contract details for Tim Holt's salary show that U.W. is a pace setter for high salaries, particularly in football.

Nick Holt hired from USC as new Huskies' defensive coordinator He led the team with a top-rated defense, as Coach Sarkisian continues his raid of Trojans.

Art Thiel on how to resuscitate our ailing sports teams Even the Seahawks will take a lot of patient rebuilding.

Why so few black college football coaches? One reason is that football coaches' top job is raising money and charming donors. Writes Richard Thompson Ford: "One might even say that, from the perspective of the university, winning is a means to the end of successful fund raising. A coach who can rake in the contributions might be a 'better fit' than a coach who wins more often but can't charm the alumni."

Black football coaches, including Tyrone Willingham, find a tough job market While 50% of players are African American, there are only four black coaches in the top 119 college teams.

Blog posts

Seven scribes a-scribbling

Posted Tue, Dec 9, 4 p.m. 2008

The Sark Attack at Huskyville. Round 1.

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Can we turn the football game off, now?

Posted Tue, Dec 2, 6 a.m. 2008

Not having gone to UW or WSU, our writer thought she could make it through fall just fine. So what was she doing at a sports bar last Saturday?

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One Dawg day after another

Posted Sun, Oct 19, 4:13 p.m. 2008

Six games remain on the University of Washington football schedule, and it's not going to get any easier for the winless Huskies.

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The Seahawks ruin a perfect record

Posted Mon, Sep 22, 6:43 a.m. 2008

Look at it this way: If Seattle had lost its National Football League game to St. Louis Sunday, Sept. 21, it would have meant that the combined late-summer losing streak of the Seahawks, the Mariners, and the University of Washington football team would have reached 17: 0-11 for the M's, 0-3 for the Huskies, and 0-3 for the Hawks.

So it's something of a civic triumph that the Seahawks didn't fail local fans, flattening the Rams 37-13, bumping the recent male-sport loss-win number to 1-16. Throw in a Seattle Storm Sunday-night 64-50 playoff win against the Los Angeles Sparks and the town is on something of a sports roll.

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Sausage Links, Pac 10 edition

Posted Tue, Sep 2, 12:51 p.m. 2008

It's been a busy year for University of Oregon graduates Jill Hazelbaker and Tucker Bounds. Recently named the "Dynamic Duck duo" by The Oregonian, Bounds and Hazelbaker are two of the McCain campaign's top communications officers – the Republicans' first wave of defense against Democratic attacks. As reporter Jeff Mapes points out, it's not an easy job. ...

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Sausage Links, cougar-hunting edition

Posted Wed, Jul 16, 3:28 p.m. 2008

Praise the Lord and release the hounds — because our good state Legislature has enacted a law which makes it legal once again to use dogs to hunt cougars. Now, I didn't even know cougar hunting was legal in Washington — minus Cougars wearing crimson — but apparently, it is. While the bill was actually passed by the Legislature in February, the Department of Fish and Wildlife will hold a public meeting on Friday to discuss whether the pilot program should continue for another three years.

Meanwhile, Micheal Reitz of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation has compiled a list of some other curious laws enacted by the Washington Legislature this year. My personal favorite: Violators may face up to $1,000 or up to a year in jail for selling raw or unprocessed huckleberries without a permit.

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As the Sonics leave town, it may help the arts

Posted Sat, Jul 5, 11:17 a.m. 2008

In all the reporting about the Sonics decision, we tend to overlook the intense clamoring over a taxing source, the so-called "stadium taxes," that bedevils the politics. A lot of groups want to lay claim to those taxes, which are supposed to go away after the Kingdome, Safeco Field, and Qwest Field are paid off, but are really catnip to politicians for their pet causes. The taxes have two attractions: they are not really an "increase" if you just extend their life, and they fall mostly on visitors, who don't vote locally.

One of the main supplicants is the arts. Thereby hangs an interesting story.

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Not just the Sonics want those stadium taxes

Posted Tue, Mar 11, 10:06 a.m. 2008

The showdown in Olympia over the Sonics is much more than a shoving match between Speaker Frank Chopp, a populist who likes to defy bailouts for sports owners, and the Seattle establishment, which wants the team to buttress Seattle Center and tourism interests and for reasons of civic pride. A bigger issue is the years-long clamoring for a taxing source that might get away. Those are the so-called "stadium taxes," a mixture of taxes on car rentals, restaurants and bars, hotel rooms, and local sales tax. The money is all generated locally in King County, but instead of going into the Olympia general fund, it gets rebated back to pay off construction of Safeco Field and Qwest Field. And they are supposed to expire as the stadiums are paid off in the next decade.

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The Huskies had the three-pointer down this year, but twos and ones, not so much

Posted Tue, Feb 26, 5:41 p.m. 2008

As the University of Washington Husky men's basketball team heads to the Bay Area this week for two of its final three league games, maybe players ought to be thinking about signs of a brighter future rather than a less-than-successful past. The most conspicuous sign being waved in the student section of Hec Edmundson Pavilion last Saturday, Feb. 23, read: "Thanks, Ryan, for three years of threes."

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Featured on TV this weekend, it's the NBA in decline

Posted Sat, Feb 16, 11:41 a.m. 2008

The ongoing paradox about the National Basketball Association's annual All-Star Game is that defense is considered offensive. That's why the final score of the Sunday, Feb. 17, spectacle (TNT, 5:30 p.m.) may resemble the Obama-Clinton delegate count.

Here and elsewhere, the predicament facing the NBA and its gradually failing franchises ought to underscore (if such a term is even appropriate for an NBA all-star game) the desperation and absurdity of staging a weekend of "nothing's-wrong-here" frivolity. This would be the case even if it weren't all happening in, of all places, New Orleans.

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