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 Seattle’s 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.