Hoping for a little more dynamic start to the basketball season, the Washington Huskies settled for a win, 88-78, over their little brothers from Western Washington in an exhibition contest Wednesday night at Hec Ed.
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Using mostly reserves, the Sounders wrapped up group play in the CONCACAF Champions League tourney Wednesday night with a ho-hum 3-1 win over Marathon of Honduras before a sparse crowd at CenturyLink Field. Having already beaten Marathon 3-2 in Honduras last month, the Sounders were playing out the group string. The win gave the Sounders
The Mariners, last in the AL West for the third consecutive year, began their off-season makeover Wednesday by getting rid of two players, infielder Munenori Kawasaki and catcher Miguel Olivo. The Mariners released Kawasaki from his major league contract and declined a club option on Olivo, who will become a free agent the first day
Lester M. Smith, who along with entertainer Danny Kaye and four other investors became the original owners of the Seattle Mariners in 1976, died Wednesday at his home of undisclosed causes. He was 93. Smith, Kaye, Stanley Golub, Walter Schoenfeld, James Stillwell and James A. Walsh owned the Mariners until 1981, when they sold to
The Sounders already have enough points to move to the next round of the CCL tournament, so Wednesday with CD Marathon is meaningless except for seeding.
After an exhibition Wednesday vs. Western Washington, Huskies will be out to make up for the past season’s whiff on the NCAA tournament.
Veteran goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann, the former Seattle Pacific University star acquired by the club in mid-September, will make his Sounders FC debut at 7 p.m. Wednesday, when Seattle concludes CONCACAF Champions League group play against Marathon of Honduras.
New assistant coach Brad Jackson gets to face his old school, Western Washington, in an exhibition game that is the Huskies’ first public appearance of the new season.
In the minds of many fans, the Seattle Mariners’ off-season is already off to a controversial start with the disclosure that the club has raised ticket prices in many sections without giving season ticket holders, their most loyal constituency, a courtesy heads-up about the fresh gouge. The price hikes come on the heels of a
Sounders midfielder Brad Evans is Major League Soccer Player of the Week, as voted by the North American Soccer Reporters (NASR). Evans scored two goals, including the game-winner, in a 3-1 win over FC Dallas Sunday at CenturyLink Field. He also filled in as defender in a scoreless draw against Real Salt Lake last Wednesday.