It’s hard to recall a day in Seattle sports history when two bigger headlines crashed into each other with a bang louder than Friday: “Mariners Agree With Cano For $240 Million,” and “Done Deal: Chris Petersen To Coach Huskies.” What an unprecedented double wow, probably the biggest this market has witnessed.

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The arrival of Chris Petersen as the University of Washington's 26th head football coach, confirmed by the school Friday, means the Huskies are replacing Steve Sarkisian with the most experienced and successful individual ever tasked with the assignment. Petersen captured five conference championships and two BCS bowl games at Boise State, where he won 89 percent of his games (92-12) over the past eight years.

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Pete Carroll stressed in his presser Wednesday about the need for the Seahawks to complete the final quarter of the season with a flourish. A franchise-best 11-1, Seattle plays at 8-4 San Francisco Sunday afternoon with the Seahawks aiming to wrap up the NFC West title, which they can do with a victory, and maintain their status as the No. 1 seed in the conference, which carries with it home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.

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No one, certainly not Sean Payton or Drew Brees, saw coming the Seahawks 34, Saints 7 wallop at CenturyLink Field Monday night. The rout of the NFC's No. 2 seed ran Seattle's home winning streak to a franchise-record 14 games, during which the Seahawks have outscored opponents by an average of 18.6 points per game, with eight by 20 or more.

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Apparently, coaching the Huskies is no longer Jim L. Mora's "dream job," but leveraging the Washington vacancy certainly was a dream come true. Mora not only rebuffed a rumored attempt to replace Steve Sarkisian at Washington, who quit Monday in order to take the USC job, he signed a six-year contract extension Tuesday with the Bruins.

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From the feedback we've received, it seems that the University of Washington football fan base is less upset that former head coach Steve Sarkisian has decided to bolt to USC than it is excited -- in some cases, agog -- about a possible upgrade. News of Sarkisian's jump to the Southland broke early Monday morning and the Huskies belatedly confirmed it late in the afternoon.

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One down, one to go.

With Chuck Armstrong's decision Monday afternoon to retire as the Mariners president and CEO effective Jan. 14, 2014, the question now becomes: When will Howard Lincoln follow suit? For Mariners fans, aggrieved over 12 years of tepid teams, no playoffs and scant hope, Lincoln's departure can't come soon enough.

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A few who preceded him, notably Corey Dillon (1996), ran with more power, and one in particular, Napoleon Kaufman (1992-94), was faster. But if Bishop Sankey merely performs to par Friday afternoon against Washington State in the Apple Cup, he will finish his junior year as the most productive Husky running back for a season in the school’s 124 years of gridiron head-banging.

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For a team that aspired to re-join the Pac-12 Conference elite this season, the idea of potential consignment to the Fight Hunger Bowl in San Francisco Dec. 27 opposite BYU must come as a profound letdown to Steve Sarkisian and his Huskies, who can escape such a fate by beating Oregon State Saturday night in Corvallis and Washington State a week later at Husky Stadium.

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Our inbox contains a question, submitted by someone with too much bye-week time on his hands, that cannot be answered because it is hypothetical, reducing any response to speculation. The question: "Who would win if the 2013 Seahawks played the 2005 Seahawks?" The only thing that can be said with confidence is that Pete Carroll and Mike Holmgren would have a difference of opinion.

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Although Russell Wilson completed a mere 13 passes and Marshawn Lynch fell well shy of 100 rushing yards (54), the Seahawks rolled to another impressive victory Sunday at CenturyLink Field, crushing the Minnesota Vikings 41-20 to extend their record to 10-1, best in franchise history.

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Marshawn Lynch ran for two touchdowns and caught a pass for a third, Russell Wilson tossed two scoring throws, and Percy Harvin electrified a CenturyLink Field crowd in his Seattle debut as the Seahawks rolled to a 41-20 swamping of the Minnesota Vikings Sunday. Seattle heads into its bye week 10-1, the franchise's best start and tops in the NFC.

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We often hear about pivotal wins, but pivotal losses? Not so much. But the setback the Seahawks suffered at CenturyLink to the Cincinnati Bengals Oct. 30, 2011 has proven to be a franchise changer. After that game, a 34-12 defeat, Pete Carroll re-committed to what had been an ineffective running game.

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Mike McCormack, a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame who served as interim head coach of the Seattle Seahawks in 1982 and as the club's president and general manager for seven years after that, died Friday in Palm Desert, CA., at 83. Under McCormack's stewardship, the Seahawks enjoyed the franchise's finest years until the mid-2000s, reaching the postseason four times, including the AFC Championship game in 1983.

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While Richie Incognito’s suspension for conduct detrimental to the Miami Dolphins has been characterized as “indefinite,” under the labor agreement between the NFL and players’ union, it can last only through Week 13, or a maximum of four games. After that, the Dolphins will need to decide whether to keep the bully guard, or cut him.

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By defeating Atlanta 33-10 Sunday in the Georgia Dome, the Seahawks avenged (as we heard ad nauseam)  a 30-28 loss to the Falcons in their NFC Divisional playoff game. What we didn’t hear was that only one other NFL team in the past 20 years recorded a road win by a margin as large as Sunday’s (23 points) against a team that ousted it from the previous season’s playoffs. Guess what?

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I learned something new Thursday, not entirely a novel experience. At mid-afternoon, I found out that I, you, all of us, are about to enter “a golden age for the Mariners.” I would have settled for a comparatively unexciting renaissance, but if it’s to be “a golden age,” bring it on.

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After the Tampa Bay Buccaneers scored their third touchdown of the first half Sunday, taking a 21-0 lead over the startled Seahawks, it didn't take long to determine that not once in 37 years and 610 regular-season and playoff games had Seattle overcome such a deficit and strutted off a winner. Previous teams surmounted a deficit as large as 20 only once, that rally at Mile High Stadium in Denver Dec. 10, 1995, by John Friesz at John Elway's expense.

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GAME: Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-7, 4th, NFC South) at Seattle Seahawks (7-1, 1st, NFC West). TYPE. Regular season. WEEK: 9. WHEN: Sunday, 1:05 p.m., CenturyLink Field. MEETING: 12th (Seahawks lead 7-4). STREAKS: Seahawks W 3, Buccaneers L 7. HEAD COACHES: Greg Schiano, Tampa Bay; Pete Carroll, Seattle. LINE: Seahawks by 16½. TV: FOX. RADIO: ESPN 710 AM, KIRO 97.3 FM.

The Seahawks closed the first half of the season Monday night in St. Louis with a 14-9 victory over a division rival, a fourth road win of the season and and a 7-1 record that leads the San Francisco 49ers by a game in the NFC West. The Seahawks could not have accomplished much more, except perhaps beat every opponent by 30 points, which seems to be the expectation.

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After Eric Wedge said he would not return to the Mariners "even if they offered me a five-year contract," a colleague made the e-mail observation: "Don't know who will replace Wedge, and I'm not even sure it even matters. Who would want to manage the Mariners, anyway?"

Well, lots of guys, but none who have been major league managers, none who understand the Seattle organization or its history, and none, save one, whose name rings any bells.

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