A month ago, in an attempt to sway voting writers, the Mariners made an elaborate case for Martinez’s election to the Hall of Fame. Progress was made.
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 are rumored to be still in the chase for the free-agent, left-handed slugger, but if Fielder gives it any thought at all, he’ll sign elsewhere.
Two years ago, when he was hired, Steve Sarkisian vowed to make the Huskies competitive ASAP. At the 2011 bye week, he has already made good on his promise.
Any way you measure it, sophomore Keith Price is off to the best start of any quarterback in University of Washington football history — and touchdown passes are just a part of it.
The Mariners unveiled a statue of former broadcaster Dave Niehaus Friday, ensuring that the local sporting icon will forever remain a part of a place he loved — Safeco Field.
The American League acknowledged Carp, who had the best batting month by a Mariners rookie since Ichiro Suzuki won the Rookie of the Month award four times in 2001.
With poor hitting months in May (.210) and July (.241), Ichiro botched his chance for an 11th consecutive 200-hit season, which would have extended his major league record.
The Seahawks, who launch the 2011 season in a week, have established their 53-man roster, but given recent history it might as well be written in invisible ink.
The University of Washington opened its 2011 campaign with a 30-27 victory over Eastern Washington, Steve Sarkisian’s first win in an opening game in his three seasons.
Keith Price will attempt to enhance a legacy of impressive seasonal QB debuts in the Huskies’ football history when Washington opens its 2011 season Saturday at Husky Stadium against Eastern Washington.