A glimmer.

As the covid-19 fight continues to make some progress, Washington's stay-at-home order will permit a window to open May 5.

Gov. Jay Inlsee Monday announced that that golf, fishing and hunting can resume, along with day use of all state parks, fish and wildlife areas, and lands managed by the Department of Natural Resources.

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The upgrade work on the Seahawks' offensive line begins with demolition. A second piece was torn out Sunday night when starting C Justin Britt, who missed the second half of the 2019 season after ACL surgery, was waived. That news followed by a few hours the waiving of RG D.J. Fluker.

After the departure in free agency of Germain Ifedi, the Seahawks' line will have at least three new starters in 2020.

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As much disruption and dislocation as the public-health crisis caused the draft, the NFL has just completed the easy part of its test. Compared to the road ahead, the stress involved in digitizing and virtualizing the annual cattle call was almost benign.

Off the top, I want to say that the innovation it produced was delightful. If the NFL never went back to its relentless compulsion to Vegas-ize and Hollywood-ize its featured events, I would be pleased to reward it with the prestigious Thielian Commendation for Understatement.

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Highlight videos and scouting summaries of the Seahawks' 2020 draft class. Scouting information provided by the Seahawks and various draft services and publications.

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If hope lingered in Seattle about DE Jadeveon Clowney being more than a one-year semi-wonder, it was extinguished Friday.

By moving up 11 spots to No. 48 in the second round, the Seahawks not only showed hops remarkable for a franchise fond of gravity, they all but shut the door on re-hiring Clowney. They think they drafted a quality pass rusher in DE/LB hybrid Darrell Taylor of Tennessee.

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Unfortunately, the NFL keeps no statistic for eye rolls generated per draft (American pro football, first round). But if it did, the Seahawks would have expanded their already considerable lead Thursday night.

They selected a player who is good, but who no one else in football thought was worthy of drafting in the opening round of the NFL's first virtual draft.

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Rarely does anyone guess right on the Seahawks' first-round draft pick. It's almost as if coach Pete Carroll and general manager John Schneider take pride in pump-faking fans and the punditry. These two are like the late hoops star Pete Maravich, going behind the back and through the legs before scoring with a blind overhead flip.

Except they are overdue for a score.

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When RT Germain Ifedi left in free agency for the Bears, it can be said that the Seahawks lost their most experienced guy in professional social distancing. Now we learn that the Seahawks may be a little shaky in the latest enforced trend in the altered world, Zoom conferencing.

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If there is wiggle room with the Seahawks in the Jadeveon Clowney negotiations, general manager John Schneider Tuesday offered nary a quiver.

"He came in and did a great job for us,"  Schneider said Monday during a pre-draft Zoom conference from his home with area reporters. "We made an effort to re-sign him.  The door is not closed, but we couldn't wait any longer. We had to conduct business. Everything was very cordial. He's is a great guy."

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An actual sports event is occurring this week. It must be said, however, that the NFL draft is less an event and more like the epitome of American cultural overdone-ness.

Yet this time around, even the NFL's sprawling self-importance is humbled and muted by a brutal force of nature.

The coronavirus has forced the NFL to sit quietly at home.

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You don't have to be an epidemiologist to have come to an understanding by now that confirmed cases of coronavirus can erupt anytime, anywhere, from an aircraft carrier in Guam to a prison near Seattle to a pork plant in South Dakota. That randomness haunts the nights of every elected in the country, perhaps save one.

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In the history of the Seattle Seahawks, Tarvaris Jackson will always be a notable footnote. He was the starting quarterback who was replaced by precocious rookie Russell Wilson. And he came back to earn a Super Bowl ring as someone who was needed but barely played for the NFL champs.

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In a case of epic bad timing, the XFL is joining the Sonics, Pilots, Totems, Sea-Port Cascades, PGA and LPGA tour stops, the Seattle Bowl, Virginia Slims women's tennis, Leilani Lanes pro bowling and college basketball Final Fours in the basement closet of Seattle sports enterprises that no longer are.

The new spring pro football league and its Seattle franchise, the Dragons, shuttered operations Friday after a half-season.

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Mocking the stewardship of major league baseball is one of the game's great traditions, as fulfilling as dribbling tobacco juice down a chin, or second-guessing a manager's choice of reliever after the ball winds up in the right-field seats.

But this week, it's time to break from tradition. I have to admire the brain trust of MLB for conjuring up Bubble Ball.

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After the abnormal response to an abnormal disaster by an abnormal president, what do we crave? Normalcy.

Even President Trump, who has handled the U.S.'s coronavirus response as deftly as a knitter in boxing gloves, recognizes that. He knows the return of the national hobby, sports viewing and gambling, would be the most credible signal that the end to the dreariness of ceaseless Chris Berman-narrated old video highlights is at hand.

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Only 42, new University of Washington football coach Jimmy Lake doesn't have a lot of room to talk about "back in the old days."

Nevertheless, during an update teleconference call this week with area reporters, he did. And said something perhaps unintentionally prophetic.

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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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