Author: SPNW Staff

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Rookie Jesus Montero parked two home runs off the American League’s hottest pitcher, Jered Weaver, and the Mariners handed the Cy Young candidate his first loss since the middle of May by beating the Angels in Anaheim 4-1 Sunday afternoon. Weaver entered the game 15-1, 2.13 ERA, but the Mariners shooed him in the seventh.

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Steve Lenhart’s header off a corner kick from Shea Salinas three minutes into stoppage time — and just two minutes after Fredy Montero drew the Sounders even — for a 2-1 San Jose victory over Seattle Saturday night in Santa Clara, CA. It was the second heartbreaking loss in a row for the Sounders, following

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Athletes with connections to Washington state harvested four more medals, including a gold by Sue Bird of the Seattle Storm, at the Olympic Games in London Saturday. A fifth medal candidate, former Washington State University middle-distance runner and four-time Olympian Bernard Lagat, missed getting one by a fraction of a second.

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Brad Walker, a Mountlake Terrace resident and a former University of Washington All-America pole vaulter, not only failed to win a medal for the second consecutive Olympics, he failed to clear a height for the second straight Games, this time in the finals. France’s Renaud Lavillenie won the gold Friday in London, setting an Olympic

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