Felix Hernandez of the Mariners was the favorite to win his second AL Cy Young Award, but one awful inning in Toronto Sept. 23 cost him the trophy.
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.
It’s been 36 years since an NFL team accomplished what the Seahawks — 350 rushing yards, five TDs — did Sunday in throttling the New York Giants at CenturyLink Field.
The Seahawks set a franchise record with 350 rushing yards, including 140 by Marshawn Lynch, in their 38-17 victory over the New York Giants Sunday at the Clink.
The Washington Huskies have had some outstanding individual seasons in the past 50 years. But which season stands out the most? Vote here.
Marshawn Lynch, with 67 yards rushing and 76 receiving, delivered a rare feat in Seahawks’ history Sunday as Seattle shakily improved to 5-3.
The Seahawks (5-3) took a 24-3 lead over the Oakland Raiders Sunday, then struggled in the second half and escaped with a 30-24 win at CenturyLink Field.
The question is not whether Shaq Thompson will become a first-round draft pick next spring, but how high he will go and at what position. One of the nation’s best linebackers morphed into a Marshawn Lynch clone Saturday as the Huskies, down 17-7 late in the second quarter, rallied to beat Colorado 38-23 at Folsom
With 5-3 Washington facing UCLA and Arizona in upcoming weeks, Saturday’s game at 2-6 Colorado is a crossroads contest for the Huskies this season.
Sunday’s Russell Wilson-to-Luke Willson 23-yard touchdown with 47 seconds remaining is one of the more unusual passing touchdowns in Seahawks’ history.
After a remarkable rash of mistakes by the Seahawks, Russell Wilson took Seattle on an 80-yard, game-winning drive late in the fourth quarter at Carolina Sunday.