Author: SPNW Staff

The Seahawks were docked $100,000 and their coaching and medical staffs were ordered to take remedial training after they violated the league’s concussion protocol.

Chris Petersen’s 2018 University of Washington recruiting class includes two four-star quarterbacks and a trio of highly touted wide receivers.

The Mariners Wednesday signed free agent RHP Juan Nicasio, 31, to a two-year contract, a deal struck at the winter meetings last week. He pitched for three teams last season, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and St. Louis, compiling a combined 5-5 record with six saves and a 2.61 ERA in 76 appearances.

QB Russell Wilson, FS Earl Thomas, TE Jimmy Graham and LB Bobby Wagner were selected for the NFC team in Pro Bowl. The Rams led with five selections.

All of the rumors of football coach Mike Leach leaving Washington State fell aside Monday as the Cougars extended his contract through 2022.

An embarrassing home loss to NFC West leader Los Angeles, the biggest margin of defeat in the Carroll era, virtually eliminated the Seahawks from the playoffs.

In a sign they are likely to be without injured LBs Bobby Wagner (hamstring) and K.J. Wright (concussion) Sunday at the Clink against the Los Angeles Rams, the Seahawks Saturday called up second-year LB Kache Palacio out of Washington State from the 53-man practice squad, along with rookie CB Mike Tyson.

QB Russell Wilson drew the seventh-highest total of all Pro Bowl fan votes while SS Kam Chancellor and FS Earl Thomas topped their respective positions in the NFC.

Isaiah Thomas, one of the greatest scorers in University of Washington history, will have his No. 2 jersey retired in a ceremony at Alaska Airlines Arena Feb. 15.

The Mariners Thursday selected left-handed hitting 1B Mike Ford from the New York Yankees in the major league phase of the Rule 5 draft. Any player taken in the major league phase must be kept on the club’s 25-man MLB roster for the entirety of the following season. If the player does not remain active