One gambling website predicts a 10-game improvement for the Mariners over last season, but the new projection of 81 wins won’t land the club in the playoffs — again.
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 NFL could vote as early as next month on adding two more teams to the postseason field, to take effect following the 2015 season. Good? Bad? Vote here.
After emerging from their respective NFL combine experiences, Marshawn Lynch (2007) and Bishop Sankey (2014) had remarkably similar statistical comparables.
The Mariners have engaged in talks with the New York Mets over the possibility of a trade that would send Nick Franklin east for a top pitching prospect.
Jesus Montero’s problem isn’t so much 40 pounds of extra weight, it’s his lack of commitment to becoming an accomplished major league player.
Former Seattle U. basketball legend, athletic director and baseball coach Eddie O’Brien died Friday at 83. He helped place the school on the athletic map.
The Huskies fall between lazy and indifferent when it comes to playing defense, one reason why they are 14-12 with one conference road win this season.
If you ran the Seahawks, would you draft an openly gay player such as Michael Sam? Or would you be too worried about upsetting locker-room chemistry? Vote here.
For GM John Schneider and head coach Pete Carroll, the focus turns to keeping the Seahawks’ roster intact. It won’t be easy.
The Seahawks will be saluted in a parade through downtown Seattle Wednesday, but it will be hard to top the fervor that greeted the NBA champion Sonics in 1979.