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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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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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The Gravy Train to nowhere?

Posted Thu, Dec 4, 6 a.m.

With Obama's new New Deal gaining momentum, let's remain skeptical of big projects that are touted as economic saviors. States like ours may be desperate, but a boondoggle is still a boondoggle.

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Oklahoma City fans adjust to Thunder's losing ways (1-15)

Posted Fri, Nov 28, 7 a.m.

Turns out the answer to how bad could the Sonics get is spelled O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A!

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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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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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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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Eddie Vedder records an ode to the Chicago Cubs

Posted Sun, Sep 21, 5 p.m.

The frontman for Seattle-based Pearl Jam is an Evanston, Ill., native.

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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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Seattle's boys of bummer

Posted Thu, Sep 11, 2 p.m.

The Mariners are now one of the worst teams in the major leagues. Here's what it will take to turn around the franchise, in terms of management and roster.

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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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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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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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Shooting for money

Posted Wed, Jul 9, 7 p.m.

Our Yakima correspondent tries out the Ljutic Mono Gun — and checks out the trap shooting tournament scene. Part 2

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Oklahoma is OK: They have lots of Dale Chihuly glass!

Posted Wed, Jul 2, 2 a.m.

And they even have their own Underground. When the Seattle SuperSonics move to the Sooner State, they'll miss some things but not others. After a visit, our correspondent compares and contrasts.

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The plague of the jocks

Posted Tue, Jul 1, 1 p.m.

It's the greatest story ever told. Well, OK, it's not. But it's one you'll be reading a lot about in coming days. It begins like this: In the reign of Gregory the XL, there was no joy in the Land of Sasquatch ...

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Other media

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

Seattle's hockey team's home is now in Kent The Thunderbirds have migrated from Key Arena to the new ShoWare Center, where the opening game went to the T-Birds, 4-3.

With Tony Wroten back in lineup, Garfield edges a nationally ranked team The star leads the Bulldogs back from a 10 point deficit to defeat Duncanville, Texas basketball team, a national powerhouse.

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."

Art Theil: It could be verse He composes a poem about the year in sports, a kind of Winter Blunderland.

Blog posts

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.

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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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At 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.

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New tax for KeyArena? A big maybe

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

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.

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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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Sagging sports

Posted Tue, Oct 14, 10:15 a.m. 2008

Maybe Seattle's decision to send the Sonics to another city was smart economic forecasting?

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It'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.

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The 100-loss Mariners can thank their pitchers

Posted Thu, Sep 25, 10:12 a.m. 2008

In the aftermath of their 100th loss Wednesday night, Sept. 24, many of the Seattle Mariners players were about as talkative as the Republican (or "GOP," as we seem to prefer here in Washington) veep nominee, Vanna White.

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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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Ichiro: As fast as Wikipedia

Posted Thu, Sep 18, 8:19 a.m. 2008

It's unclear whether it's more impressive that William Henry "Wee Willie" Keeler's century-long record was matched, as it was by Ichiro Suzuki Wednesday, Sept. 17, or the fact that Wikipedia noted the feat even before the 5-2 Seattle Mariners road loss to the Kansas City Royals was final.

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