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SeatGeek.com, a website that describes itself as “Your Ticket To Every Ticket,” has compiled some intriguing numbers, not published elsewhere, relating to Sunday’s Clink epic between the Seahawks and 49ers. Says SeatGeek: “This game is by far the most in-demand Seahawks home game we’ve ever tracked.”

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After a 13-2 loss to the Houston Astros Tuesday night, the Mariners held a players-only meeting designed, according to spokesman Raul Ibanez, to get the flailing ball club righted for the final 17 games. Turns out, it was a waste of time. The Mariners not only lost their fourth in a row Wednesday, they were

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Brendan Ryan’s bat just received a jolt — a trade away from the Mariners. The superb-fielding, lousy-hitting shortstop, relegated to the bench behind promising shortstop Brad Miller, was traded Tuesday night to the New York Yankees for a player to be named later. The Mariners tradition of career revival via trade will continue in Yankee

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Sounders star Eddie Johnson broke open a tense deadlock with a 49th-minute header from Landon Donovan’s corner kick to help the U.S. Men’s National Team beat Mexico 2-0 in Columbus, OH., Tuesday to secure a berth in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

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The Mariners, who still have 18 games to play in 2013, including the second of three against the Houston Astros Tuesday night, announced their 2014 tentative schedule (minus start times) Tuesday afternoon. The opener on the road for the sixth consecutive season, March 31 in Anaheim against the Los Angeles Angels. The home opener is

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Down 3-2 entering the ninth, the Houston Astros rallied for three runs off Seattle closer Danny Farquhar and defeated the Mariners 6-4 Monday night at Safeco Field. Farquhar, who entered with 13 saves in 14 chances, retired the first batter, Brandon Barnes, on three pitches, then came unglued as the Astros parlayed two walks, an

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Felix Hernandez will not make his scheduled start against the Houston Astros Wednesday night at Safeco Field as the Seattle ace continues to be hampered with an oblique strain in his left side. Hernandez will be replaced in the rotation by Brandon Maurer, who made 10 starts earlier in the season, for the final game

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Writing that he did not authorize a Los Angeles law firm “without my knowledge or consent” to send $80,000 in support of an anti-arena campaign in Sacramento, Seattle arena developer Chris Hansen Monday attempted to distance himself from the controversy that erupted last month with disclosure that he likely violated California state campaign law.

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