For a $24 million-a-year pro athlete who shocked the sports-business world by leaving New York and the Yankees for South Alaska, Robinson Cano cast a small shadow in 2014. Unlike Russell Wilson, Marshawn Lynch and other Seahawks, the Mariners' second baseman Cano, as an entrepreneur, didn't even sell beads at street fairs.

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Seahawks FS Earl Thomas underwent surgery Tuesday to repair the torn labrum in his left shoulder that limited his play in the Super Bowl and may keep him out of the first part of the regular season.

The club offered no details on the surgery but Thomas did send out a tweet with an Instagram photo of his surgery room, no easy feat in itself.

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The Washington Huskies' 2015 football opener in Boise finally has a fixed date, Sept. 4, but the starting time remains a secret, part of the consumer harassment program that must be in the agreement between the Pac-12 Conference and its masters, ESPN and Fox Sports.

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Just what NFL opponents wanted to hear -- more seats in the Clink.

Perhaps the least efficient part of the Seahawks' home stadium, the south end upper concourse that features the ritual of the 12th Man flag, is getting an extra 1,000 padded seats and a party deck. The best part about the expansion of the state-owned CenturyLink Field is the Seahawks are funding it.

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Much as I would love to chat about 40-yard dash times and bench presses, the information that comes out of the annual NFL combine that is truly valuable can be squeezed into the same thimble bearing the valuable news on evening gowns at the Oscars. Fleeting is an adjective that only begins to describe the wispy-ness in that thimble.

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Pete Carroll has a strong chin, and a will to match. He knows the Seahawks will be the most compelling team in the NFL next season. For a team so high to go so low so suddenly, and be so open about the trauma, well, the climb back up is reality-TV without the scripted outcome.

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Jerome Kersey, one of the NBA's most well-liked players in the 1980s and 199os, and an 11-season fixture in Portland with the Trail Blazers, died Wednesday in Portland at 52. The Oregonian website said Kersey joined former Blazers Terry Porter and Brian Grant Wednesday as team ambassadors speaking to high school audiences celebrating Black History Month.

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Hey, 12s: Remember the name Etric Pruitt?

Don't be surprised if you don't. Scar tissue in the sports memory must necessarily be thick. He was the third-string Seahawks safety in Seattle's first appearance in the Super Bowl in 2006, when Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger discovered Pruitt's unexpected presence in the Seahawks secondary, due to injury, and went yippee-damn-skippee on him.

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For the first time since the Super Bowl, Seahawks WR Doug Baldwin publicly apologized Monday night for the vulgar gesture that drew a 15-yard personal foul penalty and criticism from some fans and media.

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Knowing the Seahawks front office, they have already plotted the consequences of playing without RB Marshawn Lynch in 2015, then 2016 and 2017. If GM John Schneider and coach Pete Carroll think that neither Robert Turbin nor Christine Michael are adequate replacements, the bosses have identified free agents and draftees that come closer to Lynch's ferocity and reliability.

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Finishing a yard short of some noteworthy NFL history will be a permanent bruise on the Seattle sports psyche. But it can be salved a bit by winning the Super Bowl next year. No big deal, right?

Fixing the San Francisco 49ers, meanwhile, will take a bit longer. The dear people in the Bay Area who love the 49ers have their own trauma: Palace intrigue that continues to peck at the eyeballs of a stricken franchise.

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The last six times Arizona came to Hec Ed, Washington won five of the matchups. The chance of No. 6 Friday night was about as likely as Bill Walton forgetting lyrics to a Grateful Dead song.

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Beyond a Super Bowl win and loss, there is a statistical feat that illuminates above others the most astonishing aspect of the Seahawks' ascension: The defense has led the league in scoring defense for three years in a row, something the NFL has not seen since the famed Purple People Eaters of the 1969-71 Minnesota Vikings.

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As expected, defensive backs coach Kris Richard, who has been with Pete Carroll as a player at USC and joined him on his first Seattle staff, was promoted officially to Seahawks defensive coordinator. Also Monday, the Seahawks said former player Lofa Tatupu is returning to Seattle as assistant linebackers coach, and 13-year NFL veteran Michael Barrow was named linebackers coach. Brennan Carroll, the head coach's eldest son, was named assistant offensive line coach.

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Not sure there is another NFL coach who would agree to record a nationally broadcast interview shortly after the most mortifying flop of his coaching career. Even if the answers weren't satisfying to those of us who believe that pass to that receiver were two bad ideas, Pete Carroll has begun the long campaign to pull up the stick on the Seahawks' nose-diving airliner after the most critical play in Super Bowl history.

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Pete Carroll remembers the moment as he remembers most everything well -- 4:05 a.m., in bed with his wife, when he broke down thinking about the the play that cost the Seahawks the Super Bowl.

“Just, lying in bed with (my wife) Glena,’’ he said. "Like, in the middle of the night, you know? 4:05 in the a.m. That’s what happened. That was my opportunity to go ahead and visit it.”

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Kam Chancellor played the Super Bowl Sunday with a torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee, along with a bone bruise, the Seahawks strong safety told the team's website, seahawks.com, Wedneaday. News that he was injured in practice Friday was released by a pool report, but the extent was not known.

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Russell Wilson said something Tuesday to reporters on getaway day at Seahawks headquarters that, for him, sounded perfectly natural and innocuous. Until I thought about it.

"The part I hate," he said,  "is that I have to wait seven months to play another game. So I think that’s where my focus is on -- what we can do to prepare for that opportunity again.’’

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RENTON -- Conventional wisdom is that the Seahawks' final-play disaster was what did in their bid for a second Super Bowl win, and it will be remembered thus, forever. A more layered explanation is that the defense by the fourth quarter had broken down sufficiently to allow consecutive touchdown drives by New England, forcing Seattle into yet another late rally to win.

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As an unproductive Monday bleeds into Tuesday for the morose 12s, most are thinking they’ve never felt a sports loss like this. They’re right. But fans are nowhere close to feeling the consequences as the entire Seahawks franchise.

While that may seem obvious, the players and coaches, for public consumption, will soft-pedal the epic loss as just another bit of adversity to overcome. In time, they say, everyone will be over it.

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