Seahawks signed DE Barkevious Mingo on the first day of free agency, lost CB DeShawn Shead to the Lions and let go RBs Thomas Rawls and Mike Davis.
Author: Steve Rudman
Steve Rudman
Steve began his journalistic career in an era in which social networking mainly occurred in saloons. In the years since, he has been a reporter and columnist (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), a magazine founder and editor (The National Sports Review), the Director of Research at ESPN (once had the chore of looking up the history of rain delays in major league baseball), a radio talk show host (fired by KIRO because stupid people need radio stations, too, according to the program director), and the producer of a syndicated sports statistical feature (titled Wow!Stats), distributed by Universal Press Syndicate (quick, name three countries in which athletes are eaten when they fail to perform). He wrote (with Karen Chave) 100 Years of Husky Football, Who The Hell is Bob? (one of Seattles more remarkable people) and collaborated with Art Thiel (Sports Press Northwest) and Mike Gastineau (KJR-AM) on The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists, a ribald compendium of Seattle sports exotica that should be made into a movie (Brad Pitt playing Steve). He gained everlasting infamy in 1985 (at least in Corvallis, Ore.), when, in a column in the Post-Intelligencer, he called the Oregon State Beavers The Barney Fife of College Football, then sat stupefied as the 37-point underdog Beavers cast aside a 28-year slump and beat the Huskies. As of this writing, that game (which resulted in an official, Oregon State-issued game ball for Steve) still generates 314,000 Google pages, most of them from unenlightened (and presumably salt pillar-licking) OSU fans. Steve has yet to issue an apology on Facebook or Twitter and has no plans to do so.
When Ichiro appears in a 2018 regular-season game for the first time, he will be the oldest player in Mariners history, eclipsing Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry.
Washington and Oregon State, after splitting their season series, meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday when the Pac-12 tournament gets underway in Las Vegas.
Tommy McVie benefited from many assists by Guyle Fielder, and is now assisting Fielder on the promotion of a new book about the Seattle hockey icon.
Mike Hopkins needs four wins in seven games to become the most successful first-year head coach in University of Washington basketball history.
Going from 20 losses to 20 wins in a single season is a Pac-12 rarity, done only four times in conference history. Huskies need to win half their final 10 games to be No. 5.
Since drawing a dismal 25 percent in 2013, Edgar Martinez has surged in Hall of Fame voting and now finds himself on the brink of Cooperstown.
The Seahawks avoided an episode of high dubiousness when Mike Davis produced a 33-yard run Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals at the Clink.
The Seahawks (9-7) missed the playoffs for the first time since 2011 and face a long offseason in which the fates of several core players will be decided.
The Seahawks are only one game away from becoming, by one measure, the least-effective running team in the era of the 16-game schedule, which dates to 1978.