Author: SPNW Staff

For the first time in school history, Washington had three players — Shaq Thompson, Danny Shelton and Hau’oli Kikaha — on AP’s first All-America football team.

Starting LT Russell Okung has a bruised lung that will likely keep him out of Sunday’s game in Arizona for the lead in the NFC West, Pete Carroll said Monday morning.  Okung missed the second half of the 17-7 win over San Francisco after he was hit by DT Ray McDonald during the 49ers’ return

Oregon’s Marcus Mariota not only won the 2014 Heisman Trophy, he captured the award with 90.9 percent of the first-place votes, second-largest margin in history.

Shaq Thompson became the third Husky to claim a national postseason honor when the Louisville Sports Commission named him the Paul Hornung Award winner.

The Mariners Thursday selected left-handed pitcher David Rollins, a 24-year-old minor leaguer, from the Houston Astros in the major league phase of the Rule 5 draft. Rollins was the 12th player taken. His addition makes full the club’s 40-man roster.

Defender Jalil Anibaba, who started 14 matches for the Sounders last season, went to Orlando City in the third round of Wednesday’s MLS expansion draft, held to help stock the league’s two newest franchises. Orlando City and New York FC will begin league competition next season.

Former Washington State University quarterback Ryan Leaf, after spending more than two years in a Montana prison on drug and theft charges, received his release this week.

The Seattle Sounders have signed coach Sigi Schmid to a multi-year contract coming off the best season in franchise history. General manager Adrian Hanauer announced the new contract Thursday.

Defender DeAndre Yedlin of the Sounders capped off the year with 10 national-team caps by winning U.S. Soccer’s Young Male Athlete of the Year award.

Ten-year veteran J.A. Happ, a 32-year-old lefty, is expected to slide into the Mariners’ rotation next season, but he can also come out of the bullpen.