In previous Olympic cycles, it has cost potential U.S. bid cities millions of dollars to be considered as the American applicant city.” That process is changing.
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 Mariners (6-1) are off to a fabulous start in spring training in Peoria, AZ., but it will be the team’s April record that will tell the tale of the 2013 team.
Edgar Martinez once again failed to receive sufficient support for election to the Baseball Hall of Fame. But he wasn’t alone. The Baseball Writers Association of America didn’t elect any player.
Russell Wilson continued to make improbable history in the Seahawks’ 24-14 comeback victory over the Washington Redskins Sunday at FedEx Field in Landover, MD.
If Oregon’s Chip Kelly moves to the NFL, the Huskies would have a better chance of returning the to Paf-12 elite. As long as Kelly coaches the Ducks, they will own UW.
Don Coryell never won a Super Bowl and had a drab playoff record, but he had a profound influence on football at both the collegiate and professional levels.
Russell Wilson has blossomed into one of the NFL’s top quarterbacks in the second half of the season. But his first half will likely keep him out of the Pro Bowl.
Since Nov. 1, Russell Wilson has produced a better passer rating than Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Aaron Rodgers and Robert Griffin III. The Seahawks play the Cardinals Sunday.
Russell Wilson of the Seahawks is turning out to be better than anyone outside Seattle believed, but the national media, caught up in its own storylines, has yet to become aware.
Peyton Manning’s best home-field passer rating was in 2004 with the Colts — 121.1 points. Heading into Week 10, Seattle’s Russell Wilson has a 120.0 home-field rating.