Brandon Browner, who has Super Bowl championship rings from the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots, was charged Tuesday by the Los Angeles District Attorney's office with four felonies, including attempted murder. Browner played with the Seahawks from 2011 to 2013, for the Pats in 2014 and finished his career in 2015 with the Saints.

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At spring training, it would have been hard to believe that the Mariners in July would be disappointed at the selection of three players as American League All-Stars. But after a 57-34 start to the season, the absences of pitcher James Paxton and SS Jean Segura were almost as bleak as the selections of DH Nelson Cruz, closer Edwin Diaz and RF Mitch Haniger were joyful.

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Jerry Dipoto of the Mariners and Billy Beane of the Oakland A's are the only MLB general managers who were major league players. I don't know whether that is bad or good.

What I will say is that they, more than their colleagues who came to the top via the sport's analytics side without ever fouling a ball off an instep, are viscerally experienced in the vital baseball art of failing fast and moving on faster.

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Unlike other major sports, baseball has milestones related to the calendar's holidays. For example: In Seattle, you can tell it's Memorial Day because the Mariners are out of the playoff race. Occasionally, you can tell it's the Fourth of July because the Mariners are out of the playoff race.

Rarely, you can tell it's Labor Day because the Mariners are out of the pennant race.

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In the heyday of the Seahawks -- heyday being a term typically designating the past -- one element of football delivered by two players defined the Seahawks as a team opponents did not want to play. The element was ferocity. The delivery guys were RB Marshawn Lynch and SS Kam Chancellor.

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After a week of national news that made it feel as if I were standing in a phone booth filling with car exhaust, I had two good choices Sunday for clean air: Safeco Field to watch a team on a season-high, six-game winning streak, or the the Opening Ceremony of the Special Olympics USA Games. On the chance that the Mariners were going to play more games this season, I went to Husky Stadium.

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The great part about the American love for independence is that it immediately goes away when you join a sports team. Suddenly all is for one and one is for all. But as soon as that grows tiresome, you can re-embrace independence with golf, tennis, skiing, running, sports where success depends almost entirely on the lone owner-operator.

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The award this week of the NBA's Most Valuable Player trophy to Houston's James Harden produced some locally depressing poignancy, at least if you're in the sepia-toned crowd who remembers when Seattle had an NBA franchise.

Harden was the third member of the 2009-12 Prairie Pirates (whom some continue to call the Oklahoma Thunder) to have won an MVP award.

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The brain condition of a 65-year-old. In the body of a 21-year-old college athlete.

The medical discovery from the Mayo Clinic was shared on NBC's Today show Tuesday for the first time by the parents of Tyler Hilinski, the Washington State quarterback who committed suicide by gunshot in his Pullman apartment Jan. 16.

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Well before spring training, the Mariners knew the schedule in June was full of fast-moving lava -- three at home with the Angels, four with Boston, then on the road for three against the Yankees and three more against the Red Sox. The foes have largely lived up to the hype.

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The NFL 's top 100 player rankings, an annual vote by players compiled by NFL.com to help fill the off-season tedium, includes six Seahawks. That would be an impressive total, were it not for the facts that one is no longer a Seahawk (CB Richard Sherman), another may not be a Seahawk (FS and holdout Earl Thomas), and a third, SS Kam Chancellor, may never play again (if the list went to 200, DE Cliff Avril would be there, but injury has ended his career).

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One of the bedrock admonitions of coach Bill Belichick's reign with the New England Voldemorts is childishly simple: Do your job. An unsaid but understood part of that principle is being accountable in doing the job. If you mess up, own up. In the popular vernacular: Wear it.

Washington State football coach Mike Leach messed up. This time it has nothing to do with clock management or injury reports or long-winded ambles down the Diagon Alley of his mind.  He jumped into politics for no reason, and so far isn't wearing it.

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One of the less-appreciated virtues of being 20 games over .500 is a greater tolerance for the spit-up. Such as Sunday, when the Red Sox played a game in line with their pre-season expectations, and so did the Mariners.

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Absent blocking and tackling, mini-camp football for the outsider is a little like watching a dance through a keyhole in the ballroom door. Glimpses and flashes of movement lead to no reliable conclusions as to whether things are being done right.

So after the Seahawks' spring dance ended Thursday, insiders were queried as to what's going on. One, C Justin Britt, offered distinctive optimism about the Seahawks' most maligned unit.

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Since we won't know whether Seattle will host matches in the 2026 men's World Cup until probably 2020, it's a tad early to get lathered. What can be said with more certainty is if Seattle is one of the 10 chosen from a field of 17 competing U.S. cities, interested soccer fans should begin driving right away. They likely will make it by the opener.

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Tuesday was the first official day of FS Earl Thomas as the Seahawks' Object Of Controversy. As the only one among 90 players not in his assigned seat, the designation is virtually automatic. The three-day mini-camp, in which attendance is mandatory, took off without him. Pete Carroll stayed dry-eyed.

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The Legion of Boom is over, but some of the malady lingers on.

FS Earl Thomas announced on his Twitter account Sunday morning that he will not attend the mandatory, three-day mini-camp starting Tuesday, resolving the biggest of off-season Seahawks speculations.

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Not to put pressure on him -- hey, he wouldn't care anyway -- but CB Shaquill Griffin is the one guy out of the Seahawks drafts from 2014-17 who has the talent, poise and savvy to be as valuable as the draftees-turned-stars from 2010 to 2013 who carried Seattle to consecutive Super Bowls.

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Much in the manner of his peers among the heels of pro wrestling, Donald Trump finds an injury in an opponent and ruthlessly pounds away at it until the script calls for a weepy submission from the vanquished. And he'll still toss the loser over the turnbuckle and onto the floor.

That's where the NFL owners find themselves these days.

But the cold concrete nap looks like it might be a real coma.

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Many fans and pundits assumed that since the Seahawks' ground game in 2017 worked with all the effectiveness of square bowling balls, the offensive line would be forced into a circular firing squad. But now that the roster/coaching tumult has mostly passed, it returns nearly intact.

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