Russell Wilson has 41 rushing attempts in Seattle’s last four games, a remarkable and dangerous total. His 8.3 rushes per game lead all NFL quarterbacks.
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.
Former University of Washington All-America defensive end Reggie Rogers was found dead Thursday in Seattle. His major problems began after left UW for the NFL.
Huskies have made incremental progress since the nadir of 2008, but still have quite a climb before they can successfully bang heads with the best in the Pac-12.
Former University of Washington football coach Don James, who died Sunday, didn’t show anger often, but when he did, it was for all the right reasons.
Don James re-defined football excellence at the University of Washington, compiling the greatest coaching record in modern school history, 153-57-2. James died Sunday.
The Huskies (4-2) need to beat Arizona State Saturday in Tempe to make sure the positive momentum from Washington’s 4-0 start doesn’t evaporate.
The Seahawks have nine games remaining, five at CenturyLink Field. The nine opponents have a combined record of 14-29 and none of the road foes sport a winning record.
Bishop Sankey is on pace to become the most productive back for a single season in University of Washington football history. The Huskies play at Arizona State Saturday.
The Sounders are in the midst of an unprecedented fade and have only two matches remaining to get their season back on track. They play at Dallas Saturday.
Washington has never faced a team that beats its opponents by an average of 40-plus points per game. The Huskies face that prospect Saturday when they host Oregon.