Bobby Wagner had to see for himself. So the Seahawks' second-most important player went to Seattle's riot downtown Saturday.

"I wanted to feel the energy, I wanted to see for myself what was being portrayed," he told a Zoom conference of Seattle reporters Monday. "A lot of focus is on the looting and stuff but we're not talking enough about what the black community is tired of.

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We interrupt this sports column to discuss what cannot be unseen even by the most ardent sports fan seeking shelter from the storm of bad news.

"At what point," said Seahawks DE L.J. Collier Friday morning, "do people have to continue to be killed, just for somebody to understand what being black is like?"

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If and when the NFL regular season begins, there's a decent chance LT Duane Brown will be the only one left from the Seahawks' offensive line that opened the 2019 season. And he's coming off knee and bicep injuries that limited him. He also has to help wise up the newbies without benefit of organized team activities, mini-camps, and just having lunch in the cafeteria to learn who are the introverts and who are the extroverts.

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In the contest to see which sports league can pump-fake the coronavirus into leaving its feet so a season can be sneaked in, the NHL is ahead. That is, if you don't count the NFL, which for months has planned for a tomahawk jam over the top. The fabulists who run pro football have never lacked for audacity.

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If pro athletes need training camps before the re-start of sports, so do fans.

Here's a prep question for what I'm calling the new covid-based sports world (What? You thought the virus was going away, like a miracle?) to get your sports brain and heart going again:

Will you accept, with understanding, a decision by any of your favorite team's players to sit out games, and perhaps whatever passes for a season, for reasons of personal safety?

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The understandable fascination with the surprise return of Marshawn Lynch late last season tended to obscure the profound poverty of the Seahawks' running back situation. So the hire Friday of free agent RB Carlos Hyde by Seattle would seem to be a time for a reminder.

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Buried 58 paragraphs into a well-reported story by ESPN.com's baseball staff this week was the money quote regarding the degree of difficulty in re-starting baseball in a pandemic that acts like a stalled hurricane with dozens of on-off switches.

An executive of a risk-management firm, who chairs a Texas task force charged with safely bringing back sports and entertainment, admitted the work "fried my brain" and caused much loss of sleep.

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When Bruce Irvin left the Seahawks after the club declined to take up his option for a fifth season, he wasn't happy about it. Despite having played in consecutive Super Bowls as part of one of the greatest defenses in NFL history, he complained upon joining the Oakland Raiders via free agency that the Seahawks were cramping his style.

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Never before-seen scenes. Spectacular hoops video. Candid insights. Dramatic storytelling.

The Last Dance was a marvelously riveting, 10-hour valentine about the greatest dynasty in modern sports, the six-time NBA champion Chicago Bulls of the 1990s. It also made a point that everyone inside and around basketball knows, but typically is afraid to say.

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Seahawks CB Quinton Dunbar was released Sunday on a bond of $100,000 from Florida's Broward County Jail, according to the attorney defending him against felony charges of armed robbery.

The bond was $25,000 for each of the four charges that he participated in a robbery at Miramar, FL., party Wednesday night attended by 15 to 20 people at an illegal dice game, according to the police report.

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Clarity remains elusive in the South Florida saga of Seahawks CB Quinton Dunbar, who turned himself in Saturday after an attorney claimed Friday that affadavits signed by witnesses to an armed robbery at a residence Wednesday in Miramar, FL., establish his client's innocence.

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Wrap your head around his one:

If the Seahawks had been on a normal schedule, new CB Quinton Dunbar would have been working out with his new teammates in Renton, and away from his home area of South Florida, where an arrest warrant was issued Thursday charging him with four counts of armed robbery for an incident Wednesday straight out of the 1980s TV crime series, Miami Vice.

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While the czars, viziers and potentates of sports are putting their shoulders into pushing the coronavirus off the calendars, evidence grew on a busy Tuesday that the sucker is dug in.

Noteworthy was news that the California State University system announced that most in-person classes on all 23 of its campuses in the fall would be cancelled and instruction instead would be offered primarily online.

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Are you like me? Do you wonder if we'll have a coronavirus vaccine before Jadeveon Clowney decides where to play?

Actually, you probably have larger concerns. But in the vast desert of sports news, a Clowney speculation story pops up randomly between the cracks, and suddenly it is treated as a sequoia.

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Unless the pandemic becomes endemic to America, the NFL is insisting on a season in 2020. The Seahawks will get a chubby chunk of its spotlight with four prime-time games, including their home opener Sunday night at the Clink Sept. 20 in against the New England Patriots.

QB Tom Brady must have known what was coming, and left for Tampa Bay. He scared, bro.

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In his time in Seattle, Earl Thomas sometimes said and did things that seemed a little . . . eccentric. Mostly, it seemed to add to his charm.

Not this time.

The former Seahawks star, now with the Baltimore Ravens, was caught cheating by his wife, Nina, who held a loaded gun at his head in an AirBnb rental unit in Austin, TX., where he and his brother, Seth, were engaged in an orgy.

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Note: Hey, if ESPN can do it, so can Sportspress NW. Monday night into the sports-content desert, the network splashed the infamous "Fail Mary" game from Sept. 24, 2012, won at the Clink by the Seahawks over Green Bay 14-12 when replacement referees made one of the most hotly disputed game-deciding calls in NFL history. Enjoy the post-game word replay:

As the parabola of Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson's final pass became apparent -- in play, in the end zone --  there was no doubt that the Seahawks, the Packers, a stadium full of fans, and the world that cares about Monday Night Football were about to witness the worst collision between clown cars in the history of the circus.

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As everyday life slowly crawls back up to the hilltop from which it was thrown seven weeks ago, some of the daily incremental developments provide a glimpse of hope. Even for the return of sports.

That includes an update from Gov. Jay Inslee Friday that outlined the four phases he and public health officials want the state's citizens to follow, lest we backslide from our quarantine results into an abyss from which even Seahawks coach Pete Carroll can't happy-talk us out of.

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The Seahawks' mass harvest of offensive linemen in the off-season reached a peak of 19, a collection rivaling the casting call for the Monstars roles in Space Jam. When the first two roster cuts following the draft were mid-career veterans, C Justin Britt and RG D.J. Fluker, it was plain coach Pete Carroll and general manager John Schneider were on to the larger problem.

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Huskies football coach Jimmy Lake enters the home of prized California high school five-star recruit Latissimus Dorsey.

Dorsey: Whatcha got for me, coach?

Lake: Serious Seattle bling. We have a new football video game, MadMax 2022, from Nintendo, which wants your exclusive endorsement. We have a paid internship from Microsoft in their G5 Deathstar program that won't require work except for you hosting its YouTube channel in the summer. And finally, we have an unlimited account for you at Seattle's most unaccountably downscale hipster joint, Dick's. Package's first-year value: $150,000.

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