Finally, the opportunity arose Thursday for the chance to ask Tod Leiweke, mastermind behind the renaissance of the Seahawks and the birth of the Sounders before leaving in 2010 for the NHL and now the NFL front office, two questions critical to the future of Seattle sports.

Will he be part of a group that brings the NHL to Seattle?

Does he still claim to be the good Leiweke brother?

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The ever-expanding social conscience of DE Michael Bennett was on view Wednesday at Seahawks practice. Two themes emerged -- he provided shelter from the storm for two put-upon players from the position he likes least (quarterback), and he promoted the notion that he can put football second to the players he likes most (his three daughters).

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Richard Sherman apparently figured the best way forward was to back up and cover some tracks. The Seahawks' star cornerback, meeting with local media Wednesday for the first time in a gnarly off-season in which he was on the trade market and the subject of a provocative national story, was his familiar glib, loquacious self, while dismissing the controversy around him and the tensions in the locker room as just, well, no big deal.

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Rick Tuten, the only Seahawks punter to make the Pro Bowl, died this week unexpectedly in Costa Rica, according to the Ocala Star Banner in his hometown of Forest, FL. The cause of death for Tuten, 52, who was with the Seahawks from 1991-97, was unknown. 

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By the time the past season ended, the Seahawks' Legion of Boom imploded into the Legion of Gloom.

For CB Richard Sherman, you perhaps have read more this off-season-- a sore knee and a bit of a sorehead. FS Earl Thomas had been lost for the season with a broken right leg in early December. SS Kam Chancellor was playing with bone spurs in both ankles that he felt for the past two seasons. And CB DeShawn Shead tore his ACL in the final playoff game.

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Two ex-Seahawks, coach Mike Holmgren and RB Curt Warner, are among a class of eight elected to the State of Washington Sports Hall of Fame Tuesday. Also elected: Seahawks and Washington State coach Dennis Erickson, soccer goalkeeper Kasey Keller, Washington RB Joe Steele, Olympic skier Debbie Armstrong, pro basketball star Byron Beck and administrator Gary Wright.

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Not sure yet what is the most remarkable thing in the young career of George Fant, The Power Forward Who Plays Left Tackle in the NFL After 7-8 Snaps in College (big title, big man, big upside). For now, I'm going with the fact that when he played hoops at Western Kentucky, he weighed 250. Now he weighs 320, and he can still dunk.

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The Seahawks Monday signed free agent QB Austin Davis, who most recently was a member of the Denver Broncos. Davis worked out with Seattle last week, as did Colin Kaepernick, the former starter for the San Francisco 49ers. The Seahawks now have three backup QBs on the 90-man roster: Davis, Trevone Boykin and Jake Heaps, after employing only Boykin last year.

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Jawanza Brown recalled the time Seahawks RB Thomas Rawls spoke to the Boys & Girls Club in their hometown of Flint, Mich. Rawls was playing football at the University of Michigan, Brown was a star-struck kid.

"I remember he talked about pushing through adversity by saying, 'I was built for this,'" Brown said by phone the past week. "That quote stuck in my head. I'm keeping that in mind this summer."

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Pete Carroll has always been a defensive coach. But in some rare moments of genuine dismay Friday, he was a coach that was defensive. Speaking for the first time since a recent, detailed ESPN.com story described fractures within the Seahawks, he called it "an old story revisited," saying, "I’m proud of where we are and how we’ve handled our past."

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Perhaps by now you have read Seth Wickersham's intriguing story on ESPN.com about the drama that enveloped CB Richard Sherman's season, which was sufficiently disruptive to lead the Seahawks to entertain trading one of the NFL's most valuable players. If you don't have time for the magnum opus, I will share a central point of the story, then explain why the story misses a greater point.

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The search for a potential backup quarterback is heating up a bit with news, first reported on NFL.com, that the Seahawks have brought in for workouts Wednesday veterans Colin Kaepernick and Austin Davis.

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As he often did, Cortez Kennedy said it best, in his own self-deprecating, yet honest way, when he was drafted in by the Seahawks with the third pick in the 1990 NFL draft.

"I may be the fattest player in the draft," he said after his selection, "but I'm a helluva player."

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Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive tackle Cortez Kennedy, one of best and most popular players in Seahawks history died at 48 in Orlando Tuesday.  Police confirmed his death and said "nothing suspicious" was found, although no cause of death was offered.

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When a guy gets called out for being too fat in a place where haute cuisine consists of PBR, bratwurst and cheese curds, the shame figures to run thick as poutine. Which is why Eddie Lacy is shaping up as the most intriguing training camp story for the Seahawks in July.

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After a harrowing 6-5 home win over Oakland Monday broke a four-game losing streak, the Mariners (18-21) couldn't wait long for more dramatic news: Edwin Diaz has temporarily lost the closer's job to a bullpen committee, and 2B Robinson Cano went on the disabled list to rest a nagging quadriceps injury.

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Since he defended Colin Kaepernick's outspokenness last season when he was employed by a rival, it was no surprise Tuesday when DE Michael Bennett supported the idea of hiring the free agent, at least from the standpoint of a locker-room fit.

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Before the Saints game Oct. 30, Russell Wilson described his third injury of the Seahawks season, a right pectoral muscle strain, as not "crazy, crazy bad." I looked up the phrase in a medical dictionary and it said, "A description of severity sufficient to put down a horse. Exceptions are for NFL quarterbacks, who often play with throwing limbs remaining affixed to the body by one tendon, or less."

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The stadium will be the Clink until 2033, unless you're a more formal sort who avoids nicknames; CenturyLink Field, home of the Seahawks and Sounders, will stay as it is. The extension of the naming rights deal with the global communications and IT services company was announced Monday by Seahawks president Peter McLoughlin.

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The Seahawks Friday agreed to terms with four rookies selected in last month's NFL draft -- S Tedric Thompson, OT  Justin Senior, WR David Moore and RB Chris Carson -- and announced the signings of eight undrafted rookie free agents ahead of this weekend's rookie camp at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center.

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