The Mariners are seeking their seventh manager since 2003. When they hire him, the franchise will tie the Miami Marlins for most managers hired in the last decade.
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.
Matt Flynn was supposed to be Seattle’s franchise quarterback, then Oakland’s franchise quarterback. Now, he’s nobody’s quarterback after the Raiders released him Monday.
Washington would be nearing a top-10 ranking if it defeated Stanford. Instead, the Huskies killed themselves with penalties and poor special teams play in a 31-28 loss.
The No. 15 Huskies are embarking upon the toughest part of their schedule — at No. 5 Stanford Saturday, vs. No. 2 Oregon Oct. 12 and at No. 22 Arizona State Oct. 19.
The Huskies have moved to 15th in the AP rankings and face No. 5 Stanford Saturday on the road, where they have been blown out in their last seven against ranked foes.
The Seahawks won Sunday despite Russell Wilson’s 49.7 passer rating, one of only seven wins in franchise history in which the Seattle QB posted 50.0 or worse.
The Seahawks have overcome larger deficits than 17 points to win a game, but never had they overcome one as large as 14 points in the fourth quarter — until Sunday.
Red Bulls will be without Thierry Henry — he doesn’t like turf — and Sounders likely won’t have Clint Dempsey (hamstring) for Sunday night’s match between tops in East and West.
Felix Hernandez of the Mariners and Russell Wilson of the Seahawks both made statistical history Sunday, Hernandez for strikeouts, Wilson for TD passes.
Washington’s Bishop Sankey is off to one of the best rushing starts in school history. Sankey and the Huskies are home Saturday to face Idaho State of the Big Sky.