Washington advanced one spot to No. 4 in the new College Football Playoff rankings, clearing a path to the national semifinals if the Huskies defeat Colorado Friday night.
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.
The Seahawks put up a brave front after losing to Tampa Bay Sunday and vowed to rectify their issues, which were numerous, especially in a historically bad passing performance.
The Washington State-Washington series has been played, although not continuously, since 1900, starting with 5-5 tie. Here’s a few words on every damn one of the 109 Apple Cups..
Only eight years ago, the Apple Cup featured 0-10 Washington vs. 1-10 Washington State. Now, the two schools are nationally ranked, rare in Apple Cup history.
The Mariners pulled off a five-player swap Wednesday, including giving up starting pitcher Taijuan Walker and SS Ketel Marte to the Arizona Diamondbacks for SS Jean Segura.
The Seahawks produced three eye-popping offensive plays Sunday against Philadelphia, the most unusual of which involved Russell Wilson and Doug Baldwin in a reversal of roles.
The Seahawks stopped New England inside the two five times in the final 40 seconds, but positioned themselves to win with rare feats from Russell Wilson and Doug Baldwin.
The Seahawks, who botched their final play with 20 seconds remaining in Super Bowl XLIX, haven’t made a mistake from the one-yard line since then.
Washington’s Jake Browning isn’t the Heisman Trophy favorite, but his TD pass rate of one every 6.47 throws dwarfs the rate of many Heisman winners and Pac-12 greats.
The Seahawks have not recorded many wins in their 41-year history under the bizarre circumstances that prevailed at CenturyLink Field Monday night against Buffalo.