The Seahawks rolled to a 30-6 halftime lead and thumped the Cardinals 36-6 Sunday in Glendale, AZ., a big bounce-back heading into next week’s wild card game.
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.
Should the Seahawks rest players in Arizona Sunday or treat the game with the 13-2 Cardinals as another “championship” opportunity?
The Seahawks never engaged their rushing game against Arizona’s relentless defensive front and lost to the Rams 23-17 Sunday, snapping a five-game winning streak.
Led by freshman Myles Gaskin’s four rushing touchdowns, the Washington Huskies hammered Southern Mississippi 44-31 Saturday in the Heart of Dallas Bowl.
Seattle WR Doug Baldwin produced an epic spree in NFL history, scoring 10 touchdowns among his last 21 catches — more than 35 percent of his career total.
With a 30-13 victory over the Cleveland Browns Sunday, the Seahawks (9-5) clinched a playoff berth for the fourth consecutive season under coach Pete Carroll.
The Seahawks are two-touchdown picks over the 3-10 Cleveland Browns, but several opponents with abysmal records have knocked off Seattle at home.
Hisashi Iwakuma, who failed his physical with the Dodgers, returns to the Mariners’ rotation on a one-year deal with two option years and a boatload of incentives.
Since 1960, the beginning of the modern NFL, no quarterback produced a more efficient four-game run in combined passer rating than Seattle’s Russell Wilson.
Bad news and good news: the Seahawks lost RB Thomas Rawls for the season to a broken ankle, but Russell Wilson led a 35-6 Seattle win with five TD passes.