The Mariners ended a five-game losing streak Sunday, but the 5-1 margin over the Texas Rangers was deceiving. In multiple ways, they came close to being swept at home for a second consecutive series. But Kyle Seager's two doubles and three RBIs, along with Hisashi Iwakuma's dedication to duty, spared them ignominy.

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Kevin Williams, a five-time All-Pro defensive tackle during his 11 seasons with Minnesota, was signed by the Seahawks Thursday afternoon, adding experienced depth to a defensive front that took some hits in free agency.

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Among the many World Cup traditions is a quaint one in the U.S.: The quadrennial bashing of soccer by fans of other sports, while defenders decry American ignorance. Adherents always say the corner has been turned, while critics say it's a round building.

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The game was supposed to feature a showdown between two great Japanese pitchers, Hisashi Iwakuma and Masahiro Tanaka. But a rainout in Kansas City pushed Tanaka back a day in the Yankees rotation. So the Yankees trotted out another rookie, someone named Vidal Nuno. Who was Vidal Nada to the Mariners.

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As part of a team that won a Super Bowl, as well as becoming an international inspiration to the hearing-impaired community, Seahawks fullback and special teamer Derrick Coleman has had a remarkable share of big moments lately.

He had a small moment Sunday that meant as much as anything to him, and to those who witnessed it.

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Position battles are relatively few for the Seahawks, having all coaches and many players returning from the gruesome quartering of the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl. There is, however, one guy many want to see in serious action this fall: RB Christine Michael, national man of mystery.

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If the Mariners were in the sweepstakes for Kendrys Morales, they lost. The veteran free agent designated hitter, who hit .277 with 23 home runs and 80 RBIs last season in Seattle, signed Saturday with the Minnesota Twins, a team that was not in the speculation for his services.

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Overshadowed this week by the starts of the Stanley Cup and NBA Finals, a horse with a real shot at the Triple Crown and the Mariners causing MLB to swoon at their June -- not to mention the cramps of LeBron James, which has been to Twitter what milk is to kittens -- NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman appeared Wednesday to have slipped in a stiletto into Seattle's hopes for an expansion franchise.

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The signal accomplishment in the Seahawks' championship season sounds a little boring, but it was the hardest of all: They met expectations. From the day after the previous Super Bowl, they were among everyone's best bets to be the 2013 NFC champion, and the pick of many to go all the way.

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Saying "getting a team is the much more difficult part than finding the partners," arena developer Chris Hansen was undeterred by former partner Steve Ballmer's purchase of the Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion. In interviews with 950 KJR-AM and the Associated Press Monday, Hansen said he was open to the option of bringing in the NHL as first tenant ahead of the NBA.

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LB Bruce Irvin had hip surgery Monday, according to the Seahawks, who did not disclose details after the day's organized team activity. Irvin offered offered via Twitter his own prognosis, saying he will be back for the starting of training camp in late July.

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Hitting 1-2 for the Mariners Sunday were oldster Endy Chavez and rookie James Jones. Seattle had three hitters in the lineup whose season averages were better than .238. The Mariners were up against the American League's defending Cy Young Award winner, Max Scherzer.

The starting pitcher was Cuban refugee and rookie Roenis Elias in his 12th major league start.

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The NBA Friday approved the agreement between Steve Ballmer and the Sterling family trust, meaning the $2 billion sale of the Clippers precluded the need for the league's owners to vote Tuesday to strip him of the team. That didn't stop Donald Sterling from filing a$1 billion suit Friday, seeking damages.

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To summarize, by using a tortured old expression, the consequences to the proposed SoDo arena a day after the earth under the sports world moved: The baby has not been thrown out with the Ballmer, but there is a nasty welt on its head.

After reading arena developer Chris Hansen's website post Friday and talking with several people with knowledge of the project, all of them too fearful to go on the record, here's what is apparent to me at this turning point:

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Imagine that -- a Seattle guy buying a California pro sports team.

For years, the sun-kissed business monarchs came north with their millions to amuse themselves with the moss-covered fishermen and lumberjacks. Sam Schulman, Danny Kaye, George Argyros, Ken Behring, Joe Roth. They couldn't buy into the sports action in the home state, so they went rogue in a place that defined wealth in clams dug instead of  clams banked.

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As perhaps only he can, Steve Ballmer is attempting to turn the sports world on its ear.

The former Microsoft CEO, with a reported $20 billion in his pocket and no job, has offered $1.8 billion to buy the Los Angeles Clippers, according to an anonymous source cited by Forbes Thursday morning.

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"Angry" Doug Baldwin apparently is a little happier this morning. The Seahawks' wide receiver with an ever-present chip on his shoulder signed a two-year extension, according to a source in an ESPN.com story Friday. NFL.com reported the deal is worth $4.3 million a year for a total of $13 million, with almost $11 million in new money.

Not bad for an undrafted free agent.

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RENTON -- Sure, the game was great, the parade outrageous and the White House visit thrilling. But now it can be told: The coolest thing about winning the Super Bowl.

"When you’re at the barbershop, or anywhere you walk, and they’re like, ‘What’s up, Champ?’" said safety Earl Thomas Tuesday afternoon. "I’m like, ‘Yeah, man, that sounds real good. That sounds real good.’

"I like that."

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Fortunately for the Mariners,  the sorry As-tros have left town, succeeded this week by easier marks such as the Angels and Tigers. The Mariners can't take much more from the worst team in Major League Baseball.

Bad enough the Mariners trail in the AL West a team with half their payroll. Now they get beat up by a team with half their talent.

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Steve Ballmer was reported to be meeting Sunday with Shelly Sterling at her Malibu mansion to talk about the sale of the Los Angeles Clippers to the former Microsoft CEO, according to TMZ.com.

While Ballmer was active in pursuit of an NBA team for Seattle a year ago, he told the Wall Street Journal last week that he was still interested in being an NBA owner, but if the team wasn't in Seattle, "so be it." He said moving Clippers out of Los Angeles would be "value destructive."

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