Most Popular

Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most clicks.

Our Members

Many thanks to

William Pope

and

Timothy Frommer

some of our many supporters.

ALL MEMBERS »

Seattle Storm

Crosscut most recent

Big sports weekend could even bring wins

Posted Fri, Sep 10, 7:48 a.m.

By Mike Henderson

Win, lose, even draw (Sounders), it won't be uneventful.

Storming ahead: Seattle's winning team

Posted Wed, Sep 8, 2 a.m.

By Anthony B. Robinson

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.

Quick: Who's the most accomplished?

Posted Fri, Nov 20, 5 p.m.

By Mike Henderson

Playing the name-a-great athlete game while thinking ahead to an otherwise unpromising Seattle sports weekend.

Will they ever finish Seattle Center?

Posted Thu, Mar 27, 10 a.m.

By David Brewster

Years of planning and public relations work fail to hold the Center's place in the queue for capital improvements. Will two more years of waiting make things worse?

A game plan for the Sonics, as time runs out

Posted Fri, Mar 7, 1 a.m.

By David Brewster

It began with a conversation last summer between former Sen. Slade Gorton and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. What emerges is a story of civic altruism and shrewd politics. Even so, after all the delays, the local team is playing a very weak hand.

Mayor Nickels, the unlikely new captain of the save-the-Sonics team

Posted Fri, Feb 22, 5 a.m.

By David Brewster

The politicians keep changing the lineup and throwing elbows. Here's a look at the newest team and its prospects for keeping pro basketball at KeyArena.

It's all a plot: The Sonics and Storm will stay in Seattle

Posted Fri, Aug 24, 5 a.m.

By David Brewster

The worse things look, the better the chances of a hairbreadth rescue for the team. Here's how the play is diagrammed.

All things are still possible at Seattle sports venues

Posted Mon, Aug 20, 10 a.m.

By Mike Henderson

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.

Seattle Storm Blog posts

Carroll's incomprehensible Hawks stand out among Seattle's losers

Posted Sun, Sep 18, 1:55 p.m. 2011

by Mike Henderson

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."

Storm rolls on, as Seahawks get started

Posted Fri, Aug 12, 10:31 a.m. 2011

by Mike Henderson

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)?

Remember when sports seasons took a breath?

Posted Sun, Feb 13, 1:55 p.m. 2011

by Mike Henderson

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.

How to get an NBA team back in town

Posted Wed, Dec 8, 3:45 p.m. 2010

by David Brewster

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.

A winning weekend for Seattle teams

Posted Sun, Sep 12, 5:08 p.m. 2010

by Mike Henderson

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.

Storm blow past another rival on way to playoffs

Posted Sun, Aug 8, 5:43 p.m. 2010

by Mike Henderson

The Storm set a team record. It's the kind of thing Tiger Woods can only wish he could do at this point.

Sports and weather together: Seattle’s Columbus Day storms

Posted Mon, Oct 12, 6 a.m. 2009

by Feliks Banel

On this date five and 47 years ago, massive fronts took the region by force.

New tax for KeyArena? A big maybe

Posted Wed, Oct 29, 6:14 p.m. 2008

by David Brewster

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.

The Seahawks ruin a perfect record

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

by Mike Henderson

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.

As the Sonics leave town, it may help the arts

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

by David Brewster

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.