Boosted by Saturday’s 34-24 road win against Illinois, the Huskies Sunday rose two spots to No. 17 in the Associated Press college football poll and three spots to No. 20 in the USA Today Coaches Poll. UW is listed in the AP Top 25 for the third consecutive week, an accomplishment foreign to the program
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St. Louis raked Mariners pitching for eight runs over the fourth and fifth innings, especially victimizing Seattle starter Erasmo Ramirez, in a 12-2 victory at Busch Stadium Sunday. After a 4-1 win Saturday to snap a five-game losing streak, the Mariners were steamrollered. The Cardinals pounded 19 hits.
The Seahawks have lost four of the past five meetings with San Francisco, but scored a 42-13 win over the 49ers the last time the clubs met. Seattle is favored by 3.
Rookie James Paxton tossed 6.0 innings of two-hit, shutout ball, the Mariners scored twice in the eighth inning, and Danny Farquhar had a flawless ninth for his 14th save as the Mariners defeated the Cardinals 4-1 Saturday at Busch Stadium. The victory snapped Seattle’s five-game losing streak.
In Chicago, Huskies are 10-point road favorites over 2-0 Illinois, a school Washington hasn’t faced since Sonny Sixkiller quarterbacked the 1972 team.
The Cougars, 1-1 after knocking off No. 25 USC Saturday in Los Angeles, pick on Southern Utah State, which finished 4-4 in its first Big Sky Conference season last year.
The Mariners have lost many ways this season. Friday they added a new twist, falling to the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1 in 10 innings on a walk-off passed ball, losing their fifth in a row in an unusually feckless fashion to spoil an outstanding outing by Hisashi Iwakuma.
Having learned from their mistake a year ago, the Mariners sent word Friday to season ticket holders about 2014 ticket prices, bearing the good news that there would be no increase. Last season, the club did not provide the usual courtesy heads-up to its most important customers about an increase, adding another log on the
The Sounders Friday acquired midfielder Adam Moffat from the Houston Dynamo in exchange for midfielder Servando Carrasco and a 2014 second-round SuperDraft pick. Moffat, 27, set career highs with 26 appearances, 24 starts and three goals for Houston this season. Moffat won the 2008 MLS Cup with Sigi Schmid’s Columbus Crew and started in the
With a victory over Real Salt Lake, the Sounders can take over first place in the Western Conference, a remarkable leap from May when they were in last place.