The Seahawks did some anticipated housekeeping Tuesday, perhaps a signal of a breakthrough in the pursuit of DE Jadeveon Clowney -- or to welcome his successor in the Seahawks' desperate attempt to fix a passive pass rush.

The NFL also did some anticipated housekeeping Tuesday: As the traditional beacon for the "more is better" school of sports economics, owners officially voted to expand playoffs for the 2020 post-season -- presuming there is one -- that adds two more teams, one per conference, and reduces by one the number of first-round byes.

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A campus statue isn't likely to be part of Jim Lambright's football legacy at the University of Washington. Which doesn't mean he won't tower in the minds of players he coached for 24 years as a Huskies assistant coach and six years as head coach.

Besides, any statue won't be as stout as Lambo. Nor as purple.

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Seattle's stadium district is about to get back to action.  As a hospital.

A temporary, 148-bed field hospital for non-COVID-19 patients, to relieve pressure on Seattle's hospitals dealing with the pandemic, will be built in CenturyLink Field's Event Center by the U.S. Army, officials said Friday afternoon.

About 300 soldiers from the 627th Hospital Center at Colorado’s Fort Carson arrived at Boeing Field Friday will create and staff the facility "soon," according to a news release from the City of Seattle.

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The player Seahawks fans loved to lament, RT Germain Ifedi, left for the Chicago Bears on a one-year deal Tuesday, according to NFL.com. The 31st pick in the 2016 draft was as durable as he was frustrating, for his propensity to hold, and to start falsely.

Once the Seahawks last summer decided against picking up his fifth-year option for 2020, it was nearly a foregone conclusion, barring a breakthrough, that Ifedi would enter free agency.

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Bryce Beekman, one of Washington State football's top returning defensive starters, died Tuesday night in Pullman of unknown causes.

A redshirt senior, Beekman, 22, of Baton Rouge, LA, started all 13 WSU games at safety in 2019 after transferring from Arizona Western College in Yuma.

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One stick at a time, the Seahawks are attempting to improve their beaver dam, Tuesday signing former Patriots WR Phillip Dorsett to a one-year free agent deal. Another former first-round pick with a disappointing NFL career, Dorsett's speed (4.33-second 40 time at the 2015 combine, same as DK Metcalf in 2019) makes him a strong candidate for Seattle's third receiver spot behind Tyler Lockett and Metcalf.

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If you thought the Seahawks through the first week of free agency forgot they were the NFL's 26th-ranked defense, they offered a bit of a remedy Monday. Seattle traded a fifth-round pick to Washington for five-year veteran Quinton Dunbar, who had a career-high four interceptions and was ranked the No. 2 cornerback in 2019 by Pro Football Focus.

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Something about the 2013 draft, generally regarded one of the worst in NFL history, continues to intrigue the Seahawks. Like miners late to the 1898 Klondike gold rush, they sift through the tailings in search of the overlooked nugget.

According to Pro Football Talk, general manager John Schneider pulled another hopeful out of the gravel and mud Sunday, signing free agent guard Chance Warmack, the 10th pick in 2013's first round from Alabama.

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Finally, some people in the Olympics community did the right thing.

USA Swimming, one the most influential governing bodies in the the Olympic world, wrote a letter Friday to the the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee calling for the Summer Games, booked to start July 24 in Tokyo, to be postponed until 2021.

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In the official start Wednesday to the NFL free agent bazaar, the largest mystery is in Seattle.

Why doesn't DE Jadeveon Clowney have a job, with the Seahawks or another team?

To borrow Winston Churchill's famous description of Russia, Clowney seems to be a riddle wrapped in a mystery.

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U mad, bro?

That was Richard Sherman's semi-immortal post-game query to Tom Brady after the Seahawks beat the Patriots, 24-23, at the Clink in 2012, a game that created national notice that the team from South Alaska might have a little something going on.

Never mind that Sherman, who intercepted a Brady pass, thought of the question later, after he saw the post-game photo of the pair, then posted the paste-on quote to his Twitter account. Legends often transcend facts.

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Jarran Reed had a bad 2019. But 2020 is, financially anyway, looking a lot better. The Seahawks kept their defensive tackle off the free agent market by coming to terms on a two-year, $23 million contract extension, the NFL Network reported.

Tempering the news for Seahawks fans was the loss to the New York Jets of RT/TE George Fant, the former Western Kentucky basketball star they transformed into a serviceable offensive lineman who frequently served as a tight end in the jumbo package that helped make the Seahawks' rushing game among the NFL's best.

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When it comes to free agency, the Seahawks traditionally have been among the more bashful outfits in the NFL, leaning up against the gym wall at the dance before moving late and low (Ziggy Ansah).

Things held form Monday as the music started, the Seahawks making two smaller moves to secure two of their own, WR David Moore and TE Jacob Hollister.

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A Seattle Sounders FC support staff member who worked the March 7 at CenturyLink Field match against Columbus is in isolation after becoming the club's first confirmed case of COVID-19 from the novel coronavirus, the club said in a statement Sunday.

The person did not have access to the general public, the club said, and became ill four days after the match. No other cases within the club have been identified.

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By a narrow margin, NFL owners have succeeded in paying a little to gain a lot -- a decade of labor peace, a 17th game starting as soon as 2021 and more playoff games in 2020 (which they could have imposed on their own).

By providing a few more jobs (rosters and practice squads grow) and a little more pay to the least-compensated players -- the bottom 20 or so on a given NFL roster -- the owners induced 51.5 percent of the union to approve a new collective bargaining agreement though 2030.

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Below in italics is what I started writing Thursday night for posting Friday morning:

Hey, PGA Tour: The sports nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

Following the most grimly astonishing 24 hours in American sports history -- a least, where no one died -- it appears the golfers have the fruited plain to themselves.

For awhile, anyway.

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So much for four in a row. The Huskies couldn't get one. Now they're done.

Four days after beating the Wildcats in Tucson, Washington was a horrendous 3-for-23 beyond the arc and crashed out of the Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tourney in Las Vegas Wednesday afternoon with a 77-70 loss to Arizona. The defeat almost certainly ends their season, unless the NIT field is even worse off than the basketball world already knows.

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Despite a smart, coherent, calm presentation Wednesday morning by Gov. Jay Inslee, executives of King, Pierce and Snohomish counties and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan that was unique in civic history, my guess is there's still some skepticism about the drastic measures ordered to mitigate (not contain) COVID-19, the disease produced by novel coronavirus.

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The news wasn't a surprise, but the NFL confirmed Tuesday that the Seahawks draft next month will be a little richer -- after losing five qualifying free agents last year and signing two, they gained a net of three compensatory draft picks.

The Seahawks added a pick in the third round (101st overall), fourth (144) and sixth (214), giving them eight in the seven-round cattle call April 23-25, this year in Las Vegas.

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My most recent pro sports locker-room media scrum came in January in the visitors' quarters at Green Bay's Lambeau Field. I was about eight feet from Marshawn Lynch when he offered prophecy worthy of the Oracle of Delphi.

As you may recall, following the 28-23 playoff loss to the Packers that ended the Seahawks season, Lynch ascended the altar and offered a rare, pithy encyclical directed primarily at younger NFL players.

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