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This Week’s Man Crush: Ken Griffey Jr.
March 11, 2009 by
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How long before Griffey-mania reaches the realm of ridiculous? We’ve probably already hit critical mass, but who cares. The Seattle sports fan has had his teeth kicked in for nearly two years – we’re entitled to a little gratuitous slobbering. Don’t feel ashamed...
Sober Seattle Saturday: The week in sports missed while you were intoxicated
March 11, 2009 by
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Seahawks president Tim Ruskell set aside his Mormon Tabernacle Choir boy criteria for football players and slapped the franchise tag on linebacker Leroy Hill who will make $8.304 million next season. As you may recall, Hill was jailed last month after the fuzz found my favorite defensive...
Looking past the Pac-10 Tournament
March 11, 2009 by
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The Pac-10 Tournament starts today and I what I think is important for every Washington Huskies fan to do is this: Look past what's happening the next couple days and focus on the Big Dance. I don't want to say the Pac-10 tournament is irrelevant, but the Pac-10 tournament...
Brockman is burning
March 07, 2009 by
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I little primer before the Apple Cup on the hardwood. Jon Brockman was the guest correspondent on Jim Rome's show yesterday.
This Week's Man Crush: T.J. Houshmandzadeh
March 05, 2009 by
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Top free agent wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh did a lot of things this week. He flew around the country visiting teams who desperately need his services. He took a seaplane ride to Seahawks headquarters when visiting our soggy burg. And then he penned his name on a contract that...
Jim Bowden: the GM you love to hate
February 25, 2009 by
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It took almost 10 years, but sweet justice is finally being served and another sign that Seattle's sports karma is changing has appeared. More news today from the Washington Post about Washington Nationals general manager Jim Bowden as a target of a federal probe investigating...
See you at the yard, Junior
February 19, 2009 by
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There are only about half a dozen baseball memories where I can recall where I was, who I was with and quite possibly what I was drinking when "it" happened. The Dodgers Kurt Gibson's hobbling home run trot in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series is one of them.Three others...
Griffey in Seattle makes good business sense
February 16, 2009 by
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The table seems to be set for Ken Griffey, Jr.'s return to Seattle. Seam heads across the great Northwest bemoan the idea, but I'm not ashamed to say that I'd like Griffey back for no better reason than nostalgia. I'd love to see No. 24 running (or hobbling) around...
This Week's Man Crush: Major League Baseball Logo Guy
February 11, 2009 by
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New York Yankees slugger and former Seattle Mariner Alex Rodriguez admitted this week that he took steroids. We can now safely say that everyone in the league was on the juice at one point or another before the magnifying glass of the federal government cast its white hot light on...
Signing day is creepy
February 05, 2009 by
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National letter of intent day. When one steps back to look at it, it's one of the more pathetic, contrived rituals in sports.Yesterday was signing day, which it is also known as, when high schoolers and junior college players sign a piece of paper that indicates which college they...
Sober Seattle Saturday: The week in sports missed while you were intoxicated
January 31, 2009 by
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It’s fun to make fun of the Mariners, they’re an easy target. But GM Jack Zduriencik is really making all the right moves to develop a team that is competitive at some point while keeping to the franchise mandate of having squeaky clean, clubhouse good guys with lots of...
This Week's Man Crush: Ben Bolch, L.A. Times
January 30, 2009 by
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Listen up folks, we've got the next Bob Woodward breaking onto the scene. Ben Bolch, sports writer and resident douche bag for the Los Angeles Times is hot on the case of multiple, oh so many, recruiting violations of the Washington Huskies football coaching staff.We don't...
Cheating? UW isn't cheating enough
January 29, 2009 by
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What in the name of Billy Joe Hobert is everyone so worried about?
With all the news about Washington "recruiting violations" you'd think the Dawgs were coming off a 2008 national championship season. You better thank baby Jesus that I'm not on that coaching staff...
Dawgs get an ego-boosting shot to the crotch
January 27, 2009 by
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This was the best possible outcome for the Washington basketball program. ? making the AP top 25 (No. 23), but falling short of a ranking in the USA Today/ESPN poll. This is the first time they?ve been in a top 25 since January 2007, when they promptly went into the tank soon thereafter. The ...
Campaign for Roethlisberger Hall of Fame induction well underway
January 26, 2009 by
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We?re less than a week from Super Bowl XLIII and Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is already in the pro football Hall of Fame. Well, almost ? he?s as good as in. There are many reasons people are citing as evidence that he?s a lock for the HOF, none of which are valid. Not yet anyway. ...
Hill smoked a doobie and I don't care
January 25, 2009 by
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Seahawks linebacker Leroy Hill was arrested yesterday in an Atlanta suburb on misdemeanor marijuana possession. He had less than an ounce on him. And to this I say, so what?Mitten, you ask, what about the children - what kind of example does this set? My answer would be: lie to them...
Sober Seattle Saturday: The week in sports missed while you were intoxicated
January 24, 2009 by
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Former Washington Husky and current Portland Trail Blazer star Brandon Roy had his number retired Thursday night at Hec Ed. After the ceremony, the Dawgs held off USC for a 78-73 victory. Brandon Roy will be the single reason why within the next three years former Sonics fans will migrate their ...
Trying to avoid the Blazers and failing miserably
January 22, 2009 by
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Being a former Sonics fan and trying to watch NBA games this season has been unbelievably unsettling. It's like flipping on the DVD player, thinking you're going to watch the "Big Lebowski" for the 437th time, but unbeknownst to you someone slipped in a copy of your...
This Week's Man Crush: Erik Bedard
January 21, 2009 by
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This week's Man Crush is a little early, but I couldn't contain my emotions about Erik Bedard ? he has the best sports agent in the world. I mean, Bob Sugar has nothing on this guy.
After a half season of injury-riddled work in which Bedard was 6-4 and a cancer in the clubhouse...
Super Bowl story lines you'll never, ever avoid
January 18, 2009 by
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This 2009 Super Bowl matchup couldn?t be more painful to watch for any set of fans than those of the Seattle Seahawks. The Arizona Cardinals will face off against the Pittsburgh Steelers, two teams that can bring out the worst in us. The good thing is, everyone else will share in our misery as ...
Husky hoops, football teams having a great weekend
January 18, 2009 by
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So, this is how it feels to win?. The Washington Huskies football and basketball programs are having big weekends.Let's start with hoops. The Dawgs finished off their weekend with an 85-59 de-toothing of the Oregon State Beavers. Jon Brockman led the team with 16 points, Quincy...
Sober Seattle Saturday: The week in sports missed while you were intoxicated
January 17, 2009 by
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Former general manager Woody Woodward has rejoined the Mariners front office according to John Hickey's blog on the Seattle P-I Web site. Woodward will lend an old, dusty hand in the pro scouting department. Most people thought Woody was dead, but current GM Jack Zduriencik probably...
This Week's Man Crush: Florida Quarterback Tim Tebow
January 16, 2009 by
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University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow is the kind of guy you just want to hate. But you can't because he throws touchdown passes for Jesus and there is a special place in Hell for people who hate on the Lord's No. 1 passer.Opting out of eternal damnation, we instead love...
Want to know what Grandpa thinks? Read the sports page
January 15, 2009 by
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It was a typical work day when the newsroom staff of a local newspaper was quickly assembled for an impromptu meeting. During this meeting, everyone learned that the paper would be folding and they’d be out of a job within weeks. Thanks for your hard work. Take it easy. And donâ...
UW's Willingham is out, Seattle becomes official home of the lame duck coach
October 27, 2008 by
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The University of Washington ended any further speculation about Tyrone Willingham's future as head coach when they announced this afternoon that he will resign at the end of the season.
Willingham is 11-32 in four seasons at UW and the Huskies are 0-7 for only the second in...
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