After an 0-for-18 slide with RISP, the Mariners produced eight hits in that situation Tuesday night, a trend that needs to continue over the next 12 games.
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 Super Bowl rematch Sunday at the Clink will mark only the seventh time that Super Bowl participants from one year faced each other the next season.
The Seahawks had the ball for less than 18 minutes Sunday, the key factor in their 30-21 upset loss to the San Diego Chargers that dropped them to 1-1.
After being tortured by the Oakland Athletics in their own division for more than a decade, the Mariners can take a big step toward the postseason this weekend.
Never in University of Washington football history — until Saturday — had the Huskies allowed 50 or more points in a game and won.
A healthy Percy Harvin, injured most of the past season following hip surgery, gives the Seahawks one of the scarier offensive weapons in the NFL.
Flashing multiple weapons, the Seahawks ripped off 19 consecutive points and posted a 36-16 season-opening win over Green Bay.
Many still insist Russell Wilson isn’t an elite quarterback, but his two-year numbers stack up favorably against those at similar points in their NFL careers.
Richard Sherman and Earl Thomas have a chance to become the first pair of defensive backs on the same team to make first-team All-Pro three years in a row.
Felix Hernandez hasn’t won a game in September since 2011 and will pitch his first meaningful contest of the season’s final month Wednesday in Oakland.