WR Bryan Walters, RT Eric Winston, QB Terrelle Pryor, DE Benson Mayowa and LB Korey Toomer were among the higher profile players cut as the Seahawks reached the mandatory 53-man roster limit Saturday. They also added CB Marcus Burley in a trade with the Indianapolis Colts for a 2015 sixth-round draft choice.
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 Mariners granted GM Jack Zduriencik a multi-year extension Tuesday even though five weeks remain in the season. The timing seems odd.
With the quality of pitching that the Mariners are receiving this season, they should be a postseason shoo-in. But they obviously are not.
With 41 games remaining, Chris Young has as many wins as Hisashi Iwakuma (11) and only two fewer than Mariners staff ace Felix Hernandez (13).
In contention for an AL wild card spot, the Mariners not only feature the best bullpen in franchise history, but one of the best in the majors over the past 25 years.
Former Seahawks left tackle Walter Jones entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame Saturday night, the third player developed by the franchise to pass through the portals of Canton.
Seattle’s Hisashi Iwakuma doesn’t have a huge national profile, but he is among history’s greatest pitchers when it comes to not walking batters.
Part of a three-way trade with Detroit and Tampa Bay, the Mariners Thursday acquired 27-year-old outfielder Austin Jackson from the Tigers and sent Nick Franklin to the Rays.
The takeaways from Tuesday’s Seahawk practice: TE Anthony McCoy apparently suffered an Achilles injury; GM John Schneider on Marshawn Lynch: “Next man up.”
King Felix Hernandez can establish a major league record Wednesday night in Cleveland if he goes at least seven innings and allows two or fewer earned runs.