Former Seattle Mariners first baseman and current Clyde Hill resident John Olerud wants that community’s Board of Adjustment to order Bruce and Linda Baker, his neighbors, to chop down a 50-foot Chinese pine tree on their property that, according to Olerud and his wife, Kelly, blocks their view of the Seattle skyline.
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Seattle Sounders FC forward Eddie Johnson has been voted Major League Soccer’s Player of the Week by the North American Soccer Reporters (NASR) for Week 27 after a record-setting performance last Saturday. Johnson tallied two goals, including the 89th-minute game winner – in Seattle’s 2-1 win over the Goats at CenturyLink Field.
UW football coach Steve Sarkisian’s theme for the 2012 season is “Take The Next Step.” The next step for the Huskies turned out be off the plank Saturday night at LSU.
Jason Vargas made just one mistake Sunday against the Oakland Athletics, but it was enough to cost him his 15th victory. Vargas left an 88 mph fastball up in the zone in the fifth inning and Jonny Gomes, with two aboard, rocketed it off the facing of the upper deck in left, all the runs the A’s needed to beat the Mariners 4-2 in front of 14,403 at Safeco Field who apparently had nothing better to do.
The Seahawks, 4-3 in their last seven season openers, unveil to the NFL world one of the preseason’s most intriguing characters: Rookie third-rounder Russell Wilson at QB.
After a pair of 6-1 defeats in which their starting pitching has suddenly gone south, the Mariners get why Oakland has surpassed them in the AL West — again.
No sleepwalk Saturday. The Storm avoided the trap. Camille Little took over the lead role, with season highs in points (28) and rebounds (nine), to lead Seattle to an 89-66 victory over the Shock Saturday night in Tulsa.
Andy Boyer, New Orleans native, Washington grad, faculty member at UW’s Foster School of Business and Seattle entrepreneur, trekked to Baton Rouge and filed a pre-game report.
In beating Chivas USA 2-1 Saturday afternoon at CenturyLink Field, the Sounders did something they hadn’t done all year: Win a match after conceding the first goal. The game winner came in the 89th minute when Eddie Johnson, after taking a fabulous cross from Fredy Montero, headed in the second his two goals, to the