WIth T Breno Giacomini and G Paul McQuistan unrestricted free agents, the Seahawks signed free agent OL Greg Van Roten Friday.
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Closer Fernando Rodney joined the Mariners in spring training Thursday, but outfielder Franklin Gutierrez announced he won’t play in 2014.
The Mariners signed LHP Randy Wolf to a minor league contract and invited the 37-year-old veteran to major league spring training in Peoria, AZ. Wolf, who did not pitch last season while recovering from Tommy John surgery on his left elbow, joined the club Thursday for the first workout involving pitchers and catchers.
Seattle Storm center Lauren Jackson Monday underwent emergency surgery to repair a torn meniscus in her right knee as well as her left Achilles tendon. Jackson, 32, will sit out the 2014 season, according to a statement released Wednesday by the team. It will be the second season in a row Jackson has missed because
David Stern might be retired, but his successor, Adam Silver, is as bleak as Stern was over the prospects of Seattle rejoining the NBA any time soon. In comments to ESPN.com Wednesday, the new commissioner said expansion remains off the table, indicating that the league wants to stay with 30 teams so that the revenue
RHP Hisashi Iwakuma will not pitch for at least four to six weeks after suffering a strained tendon on the middle finger on his throwing hand, the Mariners said Wednesday. Iwakuma, who finished third in last year’s Cy Young Award voting, suffered hurt himself working out in Southern California in preparation for spring training. Pitchers
Washington (13-11, 5-6) has lost three in a row, including its worst game of the season at Colorado, but play of their final seven conference games at home.
One of the Seahawks’ longer-tenured executives, senior vice president and general counsel Lance Lopes, moved across Lake Washington Tuesday to become senior associate athletic director at the University of Washington. Lopes will have oversight of marketing, communications and multimedia rights and report to athletics director Scott Woodward.