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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One for the Gipper
Posted Sun, Dec 21, 8:50 p.m.
The Seahawks somehow find a groove, giving Coach Holmgren a memorable victory at his last home game in Seattle.
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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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Send Mike Holmgren to San Francisco — now
Posted Sun, Nov 2, 10:04 p.m.
The Seahawks coach, who can't seem to, might as well retire now. The season's done.
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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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The can't-stand
Posted Mon, Sep 15, 1 p.m.
The Seahawks look like zombies again.
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The supposedly promising Seahawks are Buffaloed
Posted Sun, Sep 7, 7 p.m.
If you were looking to pro football for a little hope on the Seattle sports horizon, we're sorry. Maybe it was the time zone difference.
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Our balls on ice
Posted Wed, Jul 30, 5 p.m.
Has the last Seattleite with local pride turned out the lights? A recent trip to Safeco Field makes me wonder.
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More fun than Deliverance!
Posted Fri, Jul 18, 5 a.m.
Spend your summer vacation in Eastern Washington, an exotic locale where lakes are slippery, the Scablands surprising, and wheat farmers are smashing stuff for fun.
READ MORE 7 COMMENTSTo the bitter-cold end, Mike Holmgren plays it safe
Posted Sat, Jan 12, 8 p.m.
It's fourth and two, there are 12 minutes left, and you're down by 22 points. Punt or go for it? Typically, Holmgren punts.
READ MORE COMMENT NOWThe Seahawks interrupt a national sob story
Posted Sat, Jan 5, 7 p.m.
The inspired-by-tragedy Redskins were no match. Next nationally hyped playoff opponent: Green Bay.
READ MORE 1 COMMENTSSeahawks: They are definitely not Giants
Posted Mon, Dec 31, 8 a.m.
Despite the fact they are both playoff-bound and have identical records, there's just no comparison. The Giants, after all, nearly beat a 16-0 team. The Seahawks lost to a 4-12 team.
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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.
READ MORE COMMENT NOWSeahawks practically stroll to victory
Posted Mon, Dec 24, 7 a.m.
Hey, at least there's one successful pro sports franchise in town. What's coming between now and the playoffs...
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Here's what's wrong with football
Posted Sat, Dec 22, 5 a.m.
It's all about gaming the clock and manipulating the zebras instead of busting heads.
READ MORE 2 COMMENTSA Seahawks dynasty by default
Posted Sun, Dec 9, 10 p.m.
When your opponents are 12-27, juggernaut is not quite the right term. But the fact is the Seahawks have now won a fourth consecutive division title.
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An ordinary, average, mediocre sports town
Posted Sun, Nov 25, 6 p.m.
The unremarkable Seahawks continue their midling march to the playoffs. And the other local teams are totally unexcellent, too.
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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.
READ MORE COMMENT NOWThe Seahawks don't blow it
Posted Tue, Nov 13, 7 a.m.
The mighty wind of the NFC West is at their backs as the team, with only an air attack, breezes to the playoffs.
READ MORE 2 COMMENTSExperienced at the 'fitty' yard line, even the Rams sounded good
Posted Mon, Oct 22, 7 a.m.
The Seahawks sounded even better, but then, they lead the NFC West with a 4-3 record.
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Not-so-hot tickets for Holmgren's last stand
Posted Tue, Dec 16, 6 a.m. 2008
Now that it's legal to resell Seahawks' tickets, too bad the market for them has tanked. A reformed 'criminal' explains.
MOREAt 2-5, playoffs here we come!
Posted Mon, Oct 27, 12:15 p.m. 2008
The Seahawks division is that weak. Of course, they could still end the season 2-14.
MOREIt's tough to foresee another win for the Seahawks
Posted Sun, Oct 12, 10:27 p.m. 2008
Seattle is now 1-4, and a study of the rest of the NFL schedule doesn't inspire any hope.
MOREThe 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.
MORESausage Links, ice cream man edition
Posted Fri, Aug 15, 12:22 p.m. 2008
Despite the near-record temperatures predicted for the weekend, officials from around the state are asking agencies to "freeze." Last week, Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire ordered a hiring freeze for state employees in an attempt to ease Washington's mounting budget deficit. Yesterday, the Snohomish County Council ordered a hiring freeze for all of their county's agencies. Not to be outdone, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels proposed a $5 million spending freeze for the City of Seattle yesterday. On a related note, Seattle's fleet of ice cream carts are expanding their service around the city, in a move experts say could result in widespread brain freezes. ...
MOREGive the Seahawks the trophy, already
Posted Mon, Aug 11, 7:33 a.m. 2008
If the Seattle Seahawks play during the regular season the way they did for the first quarter of the Friday (Aug. 8) preseason game in Minneapolis, National Football League officials may just award them the Lombardi Trophy at mid-season and dispense with playoff games.
MOREAs 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.
MOREFinally, some good Seattle sports news
Posted Sun, Jul 6, 1:44 p.m. 2008
When I edited Seattle Weekly, I issued a ban on soccer coverage. Why edit a newspaper when you can't, very occasionally, act like a tin-pot dictator and shape it to your perverse desires? I left the paper two years ago but hoped the new editor would realize my no-soccer edict was a lifetime ban. Apparently not. There's a new dictator in town, and the moratorium has been lifted. The editor himself has written a column about soccer in Seattle. The good news: He's not buying the hype that it's the next big thing.
MOREScrewed by the Okies — again!
Posted Thu, Jul 3, 5 p.m. 2008
Who's to blame for losing the Sonics to Oklahoma City? That's the question being kicked around town. But I wonder why it is that "world class" Seattle keeps getting its collective ass kicked by the Okies.
MORESeahawks draft pick is a real star — on YouTube, anyway
Posted Tue, Apr 29, 5:01 a.m. 2008
The National Football League draft this past weekend yielded its usual array of players unknown to all but the growing legions of college-football-talent specialists. The rest of us may not know a long snapper from a red snapper, but we certainly know a YouTube star when we see one
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