Why four UW women's basketball recruits are leaving after a season

• Seattle Times

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

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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Seattle has become a national hotbed for basketball talent

• New York Times

Not just the Sonics want those stadium taxes

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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Failure on the field doesn't stop the flow of money to UW sports, nor does it much affect reputation

• Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Columnist: Scott Woodward is likely to be UW's next athletic director

• Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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

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

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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A former Husky star and NFL washout is big, and big in Japan

• Seattle Times

A dismissed lawsuit is reinstated against the UW over a football player's conduct

• Seattle Times

Another arena, more history

Another standing-room-only crowd was crammed into yet another local arena Sunday, Feb. 10, and Barack Obama had nothing to do with it. Many of us were at Hec Edmundson Pavilion to witness the best team in Pac-10 men’s basketball, few of us imagining that it would prove to be the Washington Huskies. The Dawgs may well have the proverbial rude awakening on their Valentine's Day date with Oregon, but for now the overachievers will always have a nearly wire-to-wire 71-61 win over the UCLA Bruins for boasting purposes years from now.

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The Husky Stadium renovation isn't dead yet: UW makes its case in Olympia

• Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Success on the UW football team: An athlete is reborn as an academic

• Seattle Times

He beat his wife and was a deadbeat dad, but he died a Husky hero

• Seattle Times

That 'mystical, magical season' of the 2000 Rose Bowl Huskies was criminally good

• Seattle Times

Err a 'Zona

Some of us huddling in our Northwest homes Saturday, Jan. 26, awaiting the evidence of yet another questionable snow warning were warmed as noon approached with the prospect of the University of Washington Husky-Arizona Wildcat men's basketball game promised on Fox Sports Northwest. Fans didn't count on a broadcast delay of more than half an hour while the network finished coverage of the two-overtime North Carolina-Maryland women's tiff, which doesn't traditionally draw a lot of audience interest in the Pacific Northwest.

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Dan Evans blames Art Thiel for jinxing a bid for state money to renovate Husky Stadium

• Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The notion of providing state money to renovate Husky Stadium is called DOA

• Seattle Post-Intelligencer

'Breathtaking in its foolishness': State House speaker's view of the UW stadium proposal

• Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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

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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