A post player and native of Belgium with three years of eligibility remaining, Gilles Dierickx, will transfer to the University of Washington program in the fall, but is not eligible, per NCAA transfer rules, until the 2013-14 basketball season. The a 6-foot-11 center is transferring from Florida International University, where he played a year under
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The weak-hiitting Mariners meet a reminder of what could have been, Adam Jones, as the Orioles come to town for three.
June 25-July 1 was a huge week for a number of former UW athletes, and perhaps none had it better than ex-basketball star Terrence Ross.
Embarrassment is a powerful tool. Shamed by a lousy game Saturday against the Liberty in New York, the Storm, behind Camille Little’s 27 points and nine rebounds, charged back Sunday in Uncasville, CN., with an 89-83 win in overtime against the Connecticut Sun, the Eastern Conference’s best team.
Kara Patterson, a Seattle native who attended Skyview High School in Vancouver, WA., qualified for the Olympic Games Sunday by placing second in the women’s javelin at the U.S. Track & Field Trials in Eugene. Patterson held the lead throughout the competition until the final round when her best toss, 196-2, was eclipsed by Brittany
Felix Hernandez, who came up to the club in 2005, is just the second pitcher in Mariners history to make as many as three American League All-Star teams.
A walk-off sac fly by Chone Figgins gave Mariners an 11-inning, rebound win Saturday after the Friday debacle; Jason Vargas tries to give the Mariners a 3-1 series win over Boston.
On the verge of their first MLS win in nine games, Sounders FC was stunned when New England rookie reserve forward Diego Fagundez banged home a header in the final 15 seconds of stoppage time to pull out a 2-2 draw on a sweltering, 88-degree Saturday evening at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA. The Sounders
The Storm fell back to its laggard ways offensively and saw its five-game winning streak end in a 77-59 loss to the New York Liberty Saturday. The Storm (6-8) shot just 32 percent from the field, including 18 percent from beyond the arc, and never recovered from a bad second quarter en route to its first defeat in the past six games.
The Sounders won three of their past four matches against the New England Revolution, but will be without Fredy Montero (red card).