At 17 and a high school junior, Hannah Cunliffe of Federal Way has a season-best time of 11.53 seconds in the 100 meters, which is 10th nationally in the girls rankings compiled by the authoritative U.S. Track and Field News. Her seasonal best in the 200 is 23.45, also a top 10 number, albeit wind-aided.

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Is it possible to consider a Seattle pro sports team . . . villainous? That's almost as unlikely as calling one a champion. But the Seahawks are opening the door to the possibility of a adding a little awkward color to the generally bland-on-bland canvas that seems almost mandatory for this market.

Or is a Seattle team cast as bad guys an unpleasant prospect? In the words of cornerback Richard Sherman: You mad, bro?

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Once beloved by the pro football nation as Super Bowl favorites, the Seahawks are causing eyebrows to arch, maybe furrow. The local franchise already has been nicknamed by the twitterati the SeAdderall  Seahawks. Affections in the big time are fickle.

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In a celebratory press conference Friday morning at City Hall, Mayor Kevin Johnson summed up the the practical and emotional drivers that preserved the Kings for Sacramento: "It's about jobs and it's about revitalizing downtown. It's about civic pride. It's about not letting somebody take something that isn't theirs."

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Responding to a question about whether Wednesday’s vote by owners wiped out Seattle’s future ability to create momentum for pursuing another team, NBA Commissioner David Stern said something intriguing. “Seattle,” he said, “will always act in its best interests.”

Spoken like the insincere, unctuous monopolist that he is, Stern used used a high-minded phrase to disguise his true meaning that Seattle tries hard but doesn't succeed.

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The Kings will stay in Sacramento, according the NBA Board of Governors, which met in Dallas Wednesday and voted 22-8 in favor of accepting the relocation committee's earlier reported 7-0 recommendation. But Chris Hansen still says he wants to be the 20 percent partner of Maloof family that has not agreed to sell to anyone but Hansen.

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(Updated 10 p.m. with story on expansion)

Wednesday is showdown day in Dallas, when Chris Hansen for the first time addresses representatives of 29 NBA owners, while owners of the 30th team, the Sacramento Kings, convey to the same audience they will not sell the franchise to anyone but Hansen, who wants to move the team to Seattle for a record NBA price. Meanwhile, investors who want to keep the team in Sacramento already have an endorsement from some owners and the support of Commissioner David Stern to keep the Kings where they are.

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No action was taken Monday after the NBA relocation/finance committees met by teleconference, nor did the league comment about the meeting regarding the future of the Kings, according to several media outlets. So it's hard to say whether the shock has worn off from the weekend blitz by Chris Hansen, or owners were dancing, or despairing. And we may not know after Wednesday.

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When Kendrys Morales hit a three-run homer to left in the first inning Sunday, it was among the relative few Mariners dingers to have benefited from the new dimensions of Safeco Field. But the larger point was the benefit of Morales to the Mariners.

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Chris Hansen was not grandstanding when he said he had numerous options to get the Kings from Sacramento. The latest maneuver Saturday in this unprecdented saga has the Maloof family refusing to sell to Sacramento bidders if relocation is denied, then operating the team after selling Hansen a 20 percent share for $125 million.

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If basketball fans in Seattle and Sacramento can step back from their emotions just a moment, I hope they can appreciate that they are participants in a sports spectacle more epic than anything they will witness on an NBA court.

In a showcase week for how American business truly works, the Seattle bidders for the NBA Kings answered a kickback from the Sacramento bidders with a bribe. The game grows so ruthless that soon someone will leave the gun and take the cannoli.

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The Oakland A's are the closest thing to a rival for the Mariners, the Mariners are as close to .500 (16-19) as they've been since early on, the weather is forecasted to be as close to summer as May gets around here. And the three weekend games against the A's are the only ones at Safeco in the first 24 days of the month. Close enough to get you to attend?

Or, as Dr. Seuss might have put the question: Do you need to be given a bat, a cat, or a cat in a beard hat?

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The local NBA events of last week kept things sufficiently busy that the national NBA story of the week, Jason Collins' declaration to Sports Illustrated that he was gay, passed on a secondary track. That can be a good thing, because it allows one to resist the tyranny of the urgent for -- horror of digital horrors -- a moment of reflection.

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TACOMA -- Absolutes in life happen nearly with the frequency of unicorns. But one was identified Saturday, and about a thousand heads nodded simultaneously in recognition. "No one," Scott Westering said, "'kinda' remembers the first time they met Frosty Westering.

"If you met the man, you remembered."

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I'm going to take Chris Hansen at his word that when he says he still wants to buy the Sacramento Kings, he will do all he can. And he has the paperwork.

For purposes of this little exercise, I'll also accept that the NBA has the right to determine where its franchises are located, for the reason that McDonald's never allows two of its stores to occupy the same intersection.

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Rejected by the NBA's relocation committee earlier Monday, Chris Hansen fired back Monday night on his website, sonicsarena.com, saying he will see through his purchase of the Sacramento Kings, and has numerous options.

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If you're a Sonics fan nursing a boot-print bruise on your butt, keep in mind the one adjective that has always prevailed in this soul-sapping drama regarding the NBA Kings:

Unprecedented.

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Eric Wedge says he likes how his Mariners "are carrying themselves," which presumably means he didn't care for how they were being carried on stretchers five days earlier.

But before they are signed out of critical care, consider who is entering -- their weekend opponent, the Los Angeles Angels. The sick men of the AL West (9-15), the preseason divisional favorites, have a bad case of bat rot.

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Anyone inspired to add music to the theme of the Seahawks draft need go no further than the song most hated by University of Washington football fans: "Fight On." Annoying as the USC fight song may be locally, the Seahawks of 2013 are going to look even more like the Trojans teams that Carroll coached to seven consecutive Pac-10 titles.

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Drama queen, or the next Leon Washington? A little of both. For sure, Christine (please, call him KRIS-tin) Michael is the Seahawks second-round draft choice at a position, running back, the Seahawks seemed stacked, with Marshawn Lynch and Robert Turbin.

Said Matt Barry, a Seahawks scout: "You're only an injury away, knock on wood."

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