Carroll's incomprehensible Hawks stand out among Seattle's losers
The day began with all the major local teams, save the Sounders, having lost their last game, or more. But the Seahawks showed what it means to be "appalling."
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Storm rolls on, as Seahawks get started
What if the Storm had Lauren Jackson back (she's already looking healthy)? And what if Russell Okung could walk and play football at the same time (he's already hurting)?
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWRemember when sports seasons took a breath?
With the Sonics decamped to Oklahoma City, Seattle has a few weeks around this time of year blessedly free from games that matter. Our writer uses the time to recall the seasons when Royal Brougham was Your Old Neighbor.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWHow to get an NBA team back in town
We would have to do one of two politically difficult things. Sell KeyArena outright to the new owners. Or build a new facility in the Bel-Red corridor.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWA winning weekend for Seattle teams
The Seahawks and Storm followed the Huskies into the winning side of the ledger, even if Ryan Moore and (no surprise) the Mariners slipped up on Sunday.
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Big sports weekend could even bring wins
Win, lose, even draw (Sounders), it won't be uneventful.
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Storming ahead: Seattle's winning team
The Seattle Storm owners see themselves as stewards of a community asset. The results indicate there might be lessons for the city's better-known, rarely successful teams.
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Quick: Who's the most accomplished?
Playing the name-a-great athlete game while thinking ahead to an otherwise unpromising Seattle sports weekend.
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSNew tax for KeyArena? A big maybe
In sending positive signals back to the NBA, the City of Seattle might be jumping the gun on its hopes for a share of the local hotel tax, which could also be needed for an expanded Convention Center.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe Seahawks ruin a perfect record
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.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWAs the Sonics leave town, it may help the arts
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.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe newcomer name game
The Chinese have a saying: "One move is like two house fires." It's very disorienting to be in a new place, even if you moved within the U.S. and can therefore depend on the cultural differences between your previous burg and Seattle to be, relatively speaking, minimal. I've lived in the Northwest for nearly six years and Seattle for almost three, and I'm still doing double-takes over little things, such as proper nouns.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWDoes Clay Bennett's 'sweet flip' exonerate him?
Here's an interesting mind game. What if the Oklahoma City owners of the Sonics have been behaving honorably all along? News today of an email that envisioned a "sweet flip" of the team, keeping it in Seattle, makes such a theory somewhat plausible. Suspend your media-whipped anger at the Oklahomans for a few minutes, and follow me on a shrewd tale of modern capitalism.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWWhy the Sonics should go away
Brave is the mortal who takes on Art Thiel, the Post-Intelligencer's ace sports columnist. Advocates for a Legislative fix for Husky stadium still think Thiel's withering column about that request sank the idea in a day. (Thiel dislikes the commercialization of college sports and has become the scourge of Huskies.) And now, he's arguing to defy the Oklahoma Sonics group until the last lawsuit dies. "Just say no," contends Big Art.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWSteve Ballmer: still in the basketball game?
The on-again, off-again saga of saving the Sonics and KeyArena has taken another turn. Apparently the drop-dead date of April 10 for having a deal for the Steve Ballmer ownership group is really just a coma-threat. The group of heavy-hitter owners-in-waiting will simply go into hibernation once the Sonics decamp to Oklahoma City.
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