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Despite gimpy stars and long odds against the defending champs, the Storm came up big late, stunning the top-seeded Minnesota Lynx 86-79 in a double-overtime playoff thriller Sunday night at KeyArena, extending Seattle’s season at least one more game. Sue Bird, seeming to forget the pain in her hip as the grueling game wore on,

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The Mariners were in quest of their 74th win of the season Sunday, playing against an Oakland team that won 74 games last year. This isn’t last year. The A’s of 2012 have turned into one of the behemoths of the American League. The Mariners don’t have nearly the skill level to deal with the

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No one, including the star herself, is willing to offer up how physically limited Sue Bird will be when she takes the KeyArena court at 6 p.m. Sunday for what could be the Storm’s final game of 2012. But it’s unlikely she’s any healthier than Friday, when she had eight points and five turnovers in

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The Seattle Sounders played to a 0-0 draw with the Whitecaps Saturday night at B.C. Place in Vancouver, B.C., but still clinched their fourth consecutive appearance in the MLS playoffs by collecting one point. Both sides had a chance to win in the final, frantic moments of a match almost entirely devoid of drama.

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The Oakland A’s scored one run in the eighth, two in the ninth and three in the 10th — a three-run, walk-off homer by Brandon Moss — to dope-slap the Mariners 7-4 Saturday afternoon after Jason Vargas left his final game of the season with a 4-1 lead. In the 10th, Coco Crisp led off

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