Steve began his journalistic career in an era in which social networking mainly occurred in saloons.
In the years since, he has been a reporter and columnist (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), a magazine founder and editor (The National Sports Review), the Director of Research at ESPN (once had the chore of looking up the history of rain delays in major league baseball), a radio talk show host (fired by KIRO because stupid people need radio stations, too, according to the program director), and the producer of a syndicated sports statistical feature (titled Wow!Stats), distributed by Universal Press Syndicate (quick, name three countries in which athletes are eaten when they fail to perform).
He wrote (with Karen Chave) 100 Years of Husky Football, Who The Hell is Bob? (one of Seattles more remarkable people) and collaborated with Art Thiel (Sports Press Northwest) and Mike Gastineau (KJR-AM) on The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists, a ribald compendium of Seattle sports exotica that should be made into a movie (Brad Pitt playing Steve).
He gained everlasting infamy in 1985 (at least in Corvallis, Ore.), when, in a column in the Post-Intelligencer, he called the Oregon State Beavers The Barney Fife of College Football, then sat stupefied as the 37-point underdog Beavers cast aside a 28-year slump and beat the Huskies.
As of this writing, that game (which resulted in an official, Oregon State-issued game ball for Steve) still generates 314,000 Google pages, most of them from unenlightened (and presumably salt pillar-licking) OSU fans. Steve has yet to issue an apology on Facebook or Twitter and has no plans to do so.
Both general manager John Schneider and head coach Pete Carroll insisted during their NFL combine appearances this past week that they are intent on luring Marshawn Lynch back to the Seahawks despite Lynch's hints, mainly through friends, that he is considering retirement. While Schneider/Carroll provided no details, Yahoo.com reports that Seattle has offered the running back a multi-year deal in the $20-21 million range.
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Pete Carroll spent the first few days after Seattle's Super Bowl loss to New England taking responsibility in a variety of interviews, including one with Matt Lauer of NBC's The Today Show, for the goal-line interception that cost the Seahawks an opportunity to repeat as champions. Carroll, though, will have to share the blame with Russell Wilson, who told the Players' Tribune web site that the botched play was all his fault.
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During his 15-minute press conference at the NFL combine in Indianapolis Thursday, Seahawks GM John Schneider had little new to add about the status of Marshawn Lynch, said he still hasn't "gotten over" the team's final offensive play in Super Bowl XLIX, and indicated that the Seahawks would be entertain offers for their 31st overall pick in the draft.
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Former University of Washington cornerback Marcus Peters, tossed off the football squad in midseason by first-year head coach Chris Petersen, made an astonishing admission: In an interview with USA Today, Peters not only said he would have thrown himself off the team as Petersen did, he wouldn't have waited as long to do it. That was only part of the Peters' mea culpa.
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As general manager John Schneider explained to 710 ESPN Seattle Tuesday, the Seahawks are asking a favor of Marshawn Lynch: They need the enigmatic, entertaining running back to decide ASAP whether he intends to play in 2015, so the franchise can plan accordingly. Given Seattle's salary cap considerations, Lynch’s decision will have a major impact on next season’s roster.
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New England coach Bill Belichick Wednesday came to Pete Carroll's defense, saying his Seattle counterpart does not deserve all the criticism he has received for the play call on second down with 26 seconds to play that resulted in a Malcolm Butler interception, sealing the Patriots' 28-24 victory Sunday in Super Bowl XLIX.
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The world consensus is that Pete Carroll and offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell made the worst call in Super Bowl history by failing to dispatch Marshawn Lynch into the end zone for the game-winning touchdown from the New England one-yard line Sunday night. Instead they opted for a slant pass from Russell Wilson to Ricardo Lockette, generously Seattle’s No. 4/5 receiver.
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Never at a loss for words, Pete Carroll probably won't live long enough to explain adequately why, with a victory in Super Bowl XLIX one, tantalizing yard away and Marshawn Lynch poised to ram in the game-winning touchdown with less than a minute to go, the Seahawks opted instead to have Russell Wilson throw a pick play to Ricardo Lockette at the goal line.
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Given that it’s impossible to predict turnovers or big plays, most experts/analysts have settled on a Super Bowl storyline that suggests the Seahawks will only beat New England Sunday if they receive an A+ game from Marshawn Lynch. Why? Because Russell Wilson, not a big numbers quarterback anyway, is not going to be able to throw effectively against Patriots. Truth is, few QBs have.
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After losing Red Bryant and Chris Clemons in free agency, Brandon Mebane to a season-ending hamstring injury in Week 10, and Bobby Wagner for five weeks at mid-year, it seemed unlikely the Seahawks would duplicate last year’s feat of leading the NFL in total defense. But by allowing 39 points in their final six games, the Seahawks finished No. 1 again in fewest points (15.9) and yards (267.1) allowed, only the fourth franchise since the 1950s to do so.
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Seahawks fans watched in various degrees of horror the past March as a parade of operatives key to the 43-8 Super Bowl triumph bolted town, lured by greater dollars than the champions could pay. On March 11-12 alone, the Seahawks lost in free agency DEs Red Bryant and Chris Clemons to Jacksonville, WR Golden Tate to Detroit and RT Breno Giacomini to the New York Jets.
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In a week dominated by Deflategate and Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch’s on-going cash drain for crotch-grabbing and non-talking, Seattle nickel cornerback Jeremy Lane, in a burst of Emerald City swagger, contributed a headline of his own that appeared on all major sports web sites. It said, “Seahawks’ Lane: Gronkowski not that good.” A fourth-year pro out of Northwest State (LA.), Lane apparently possesses knowledge no one else does.
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Your time is short on this planet if you witnessed Alan “The Horse” Ameche, the 1954 Heisman Trophy winner who spent six seasons (1955-60) with the Baltimore Colts. Ameche was famous for scoring the winning touchdown in overtime in the 1958 NFL Championship against the New York Giants, a game often called “the greatest ever played” – not because it was, but because it prompted network television to invest in pro football for the first time.
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There IS crying in football.
Moments after throwing a 35-yard, overtime touchdown pass to Jermaine Kearse to end the most improbable victory by any team in Seattle pro sports history, Russell Wilson unabashedly shed tears in front of a national television audience as he celebrated a 28-22 victory over the Green Bay Packers that clinched a return trip to the Super Bowl. They will play the New England Patriots, who beat Indianapolis 45-7 for the AFC title, Feb. 1 in Glendale, AZ.
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Las Vegas established the Seahawks as 7-to-7½-point favorites to defeat Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers Sunday in the NFC Championship game at CenturyLink Field. It’s obvious why. Since 2012, the Seahawks have won 25 of 27 regular-season and home playoff games by an average margin of 15.4 points. No team is close to that kind of dominance.
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Pete Carroll spends the majority of his press-conference time responding to media inquiries while rarely making one himself. But during Saturday night’s presser following the Seahawks’ 31-17 victory over the Carolina Panthers, Carroll had a question of his own amid commenting on the performance of Russell Wilson, who threw for 268 yards and three touchdowns with a 149.2 passer rating.
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Led by a hobbling but still effective QB Aaron Rodgers, the Green Bay Packers rallied in the second half to defeat the Dallas Cowboys 26-21 Sunday at Lambeau Field, earning the right to face the Seahawks next Sunday at CenturyLink Field for the NFC championship. The winner will advance to Super Bowl XLIX Feb. 1 in Glendale, AZ.
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The Seahawks resoundingly quashed one Super Bowl jinx Saturday night, becoming the first defending champion since the 2005 New England Patriots to win a playoff game. In emphatic fashion, with a big second half, the Seahawks rolled to a 31-17 victory over the Carolina Panthers at CenturyLink Field to reach their second consecutive NFC Championship.
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Rewind to Oct. 26, when the 3-3 Seahawks traveled to Charlotte to face Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers. A loss probably would have derailed any chance the defending Super Bowl champions had of returning to the postseason. A dire outcome seemed imminent when the Seahawks took possession at their 20 with less than five minutes to play, trailing 9-6.
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Raking in a near-record 97.3 percent of the vote, Randy Johnson (1989-09) overwhelmingly won election to the Baseball Hall of Fame Tuesday in his first time on the ballot, topping a 2015 class that also includes Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz and Craig Biggio. Another former Mariner, Edgar Martinez, again came up short, but experienced a slight uptick in support.
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