J.D. McKissic should get more touches after scoring on a 30-yard run and a 27-yard pass Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts.
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.
In the Mariners’ time in MLB, no American League team has missed the playoffs so often — 37 times in 41 years. The compass rose points to endless futility.
After allowing 33 points to Tennessee Sunday, the Seahawks rank 30th in the NFL in run defense. Two years ago, with many of the same players, they ranked No. 1.
The Mariners lost to Cleveland 4-2 Sunday, eliminating them from the postseason race. The Mariners haven’t made the playoffs since 2001, the most enduring drought in MLB.
Washington is a 10-point pick over Colorado Saturday, but no Pac-12 division winner has made it through a conference slate without a loss.
San Francisco RB Carlos Hyde is the only opposing running back to post 100-yard rushing games at the Clink in consecutive seasons.
Felix Hernandez and James Paxton returned, but it was hardly enough as a sweep by the Astros put the Mariners 4.5 games behind Minnesota for the second wild card spot.
As a sex scandal forces mayor Ed Murray from office, the city and Oak View Group Tuesday unveiled a deal for the construction of a $600 million arena at Seattle Center.
The Mariners were swept by the Astros to the start the week, but took two of three from the Angels. They still face long odds to reach the postseason.
Washington moved up one spot in both national polls — Associated Press and coaches — to No. 6 following an easy win over Montana Saturday night.