If the Seahawks lose to the Rams, they will be the first team since the 16-game schedule to win 12 of the 14 games and blow the final two contests at home.
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.
Washington and Connecticut met three times, twice in the NCAA Tournament, UW losing both games in buzzer beaters. The schools meet again Sunday in Seattle.
Run the numbers and they suggest that the Seahawks, who can clinch the NFC West Sunday, features a defense that compares favorably with some of the best in NFL history.
The Sounders Tuesday dispatched salary-challenged Eddie Johnson to D.C. United in exchange for allocation money, which Seattle will use on more players.
New University of Texas athletic director Steve Patterson has reportedly compiled a list of replacements for Mack Brown that includes Pete Carroll of the Seahawks.
The Seahawks will never get official credit for the feat, but their 19 yards allowed on opponent punt returns is the best in NFL history through 14 games.
The Seahawks intercepted five Eli Manning passes and, despite not having their best offense, smothered the Giants at MetLife Stadium to improve to 12-2.
Expected to be signed by the Mariners to a 10-year, $240 million deal, Robinson Cano compares favorably to all Hall of Fame second basemen in a variety of measures.
Huge sports day in Seattle with Robinson Cano agreeing with the Mariners and Chris Petersen agreeing with the Washington football team. Which story is bigger? Vote here.
The University of Washington is expected to announce the hiring of Chris Petersen, who has spent the last eight years at Boise State, as Steve Sarkisian’s replacement.