Now that Christine Michael is the starting running back for the immediate future -- a cracked fibula has sidelined starter Thomas Rawls for several games -- the Seahawks are more than eager to welcome back another man of mystery.

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QB Russell Wilson has a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee that, with a brace and rehab, may allow him to play Sunday in New York against the Jets, according to coach Pete Carroll. But the news was not as good for RB Thomas Rawls, who is out "a few weeks" with damage to the fibula that is cracked.

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On an afternoon when just about everything went right for the Seahawks -- you know, like, touchdowns -- WR Doug Baldwin had an internal disorder shared with everyone wearing bird gear.

"My heart dropped," he said. "It was weird, because I hadn't felt like that in a long time."

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After almost a month of dining on cupcakes, the Huskies had a hard time with a dinner of cactus Saturday night in Tucson.

Two missed field goals, a red-zone interception and four sacks of QB Jake Browning nearly wiped out months of high expectations. But due largely to an astonishing game from junior RB Lavon Coleman, ninth-ranked Washington (4-0) prevailed 35-28 in overtime over an Arizona team that nearly trap-doored the Huskies again.

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QB Russell Wilson "was really the best that he’s been in the last two weeks -- he looked really good today,” said Pete Carroll Friday. He also said WRs Doug Baldwin and Tyler Lockett are likely to go. RB Thomas Rawls and RG Germain Ifedi are unlikely to go.

And the Seahawks coach was persuaded that his players' growing political activism is no distraction heading into the 1 p.m. Sunday game against San Francisco at the Clink.

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Injured C Steve Clevenger was suspended without pay for the rest of the season by Mariners general manager Jerry Dipoto Friday after racist tweets from his account were widely distributed Thursday.

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Steve Clevenger emerged from the Mariners' disabled list as well as from under a rock Thursday to tweet his contempt for a serious public issue in a way that brands him a racist and makes him a candidate for a rapid departure from the club.

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Chris Hansen has completed a purchase of more than four acres of land that have been a part of his stymied plan to build a basketball/hockey arena in Sodo, according to public property records filed with the city and first reported by KING5's Chris Daniels.

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RENTON -- Richard Sherman understands that Seahawks fans see a football crisis nearing, what with a Super Bowl-caliber team sputtering along at 7.5 points a game. But after a few superficial remarks about the 49ers game Sunday at his presser Wednesday at team headquarters, he politely pivoted away to address what he sees as a real crisis.

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Bad 48 hours for Pete Carroll.

The Seahawks coach returned Saturday to Los Angeles, where once he was king with his bad-ass USC teams. But after being out-coached again by new nemesis Jeff Fisher, he left Sunday embarrassed partly because he discovered his latest bad-ass team is not bad-ass without Marshawn Lynch.

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After two games of tepid offensive production, it's clear that the Seahawks haven't adjusted to a Russell Wilson diminished by an ankle injury.

"He looked OK, but he didn't have the same spring and pop he usually has," coach Pete Carroll said on his weekly Monday morning radio show on ESPN 710. "He's not the same guy who runs all over the field. He got out, and did a nice job making a few yards.

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The NFL has busted the Seahawks a third time for violating rules against excessive contact during off-season workouts. The league and players union announced Monday the club was fined $400,000, a fifth-round pick in the next draft and a week of organized team activities. Coach Pete Carroll was also fined $200,000.

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LOS ANGELES -- When a defense permits only nine points in an NFL game, it stretches credulity to ask the unit to do more. But that is the request of the House of Twelves -- get a turnover to provide an itsy-bitsy portion of the field so its limpy-skimpy Seahawks offense can score a touchdown.

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LOS ANGELES -- At about noon Sunday, the public address announcer at the Los Angeles Coliseum said it had been 13,427 days since the the yellow and blue had trod upon the sacred sod: "Are yooooou readyyyyy?!?" he bellowed.

The early arrivers mustered a hearty shrug. Many were not born the last time the Rams  played here.

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LOS ANGELES -- Say what you will about the NFL's inept meanderings through social issues. The most successful sports enterprise in America does know theater.

Bringing back to Hollywood the Rams after 21 years and Pete Carroll after seven years, in the same football game? Even scriptwriters for "Celebrity Apprentice" would cringe at the corny implausibility.

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In explaining his recovery from a sprained ankle, Seahawks QB Russell Wilson is in new territory. After somehow never being seriously injured through four years in the NFL, he offered some observations that seemed to depart a bit from his standard script. Wilson said he:

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If we all didn't know Russell Wilson to be the competitor that he is, it would be possible to speculate that the Seahawks quarterback picked a good week to get injured. In his eight career games against the Rams, he has been sacked 35 times. Ciara has probably asked about all those spiral horn prints on his ribs and back.

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A bit lost in Sunday's hubbub about the opening game, anthem demonstrations, QB Russell Wilson's ankle injury -- "He plans to play," said coach Pete Carroll Monday afternoon -- and the new offensive line's debut, was the fact that the Seahawks defense slapped the bejeezus out of the Dolphins and QB Ryan Tannehill.

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It's only a sprain, and apparently a mild one.

So said coach Pete Carroll Monday morning, the day after QB Russell Wilson injured his ankle Sunday in the 12-10 win over Miami, causing the Seattle sports world to gasp, swoon and despair: In his fifth year, Wilson had the first threat to his playing time.

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The day was rich in drama: 9/11 anniversary, opening Sunday for the NFL season, America wrestling with itself. Not that we haven't seen it all before, but perhaps never have they all knotted up together in one time and place.

Nowhere were matters more knotty than in Seattle, where the Seahawks, because they are Pete Carroll's Seahawks, jumped in front of everyone in sports to begin untangling.

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