Three former University of Washington quarterbacks threw more than 100 touchdowns each during their NFL careers.
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 Seahawks, just as they did in 2010, went for an offensive lineman in the first round of the 2011 National Football League Draft.
James Carpenter joins the list of first-round selections by the Seahawks, some of which were busts, some worked out. Take a look at the other Seahawks first rounders.
Jake Locker became just the 16th Washington football player to be selected in the NFL’s first round. Who were the others?
Locker became the first to go in the first round. A look at the 14 others who have been selected by the NFL gurus.
Top questions: Will Jake Locker go in the first round? Would the Seahawks take him if he’s available? Or will he fall out of the first round entirely?
Has an NFL team taken two Hall of Famers in a single NFL Draft?
Since 1901, more than 14,000 men and women have struck an oar in the water on behalf of the University of Washington, whose rowing program is the most successful athletic enterprise in the state’s history. UW men and women have combined to win 21 national championships and 172 conference championships (all categories of races). Eighty UW rowers have participated in 13 Olympic Games, and three Washington shells (1936, 1948 and 1952) have won Olympic medals. Husky men and women have won races and regattas on such far flung waters as the Thames in London, the Nile in Egypt and on…
Each year since 1987 the University of Washington has hosted an elite field of competitors for the Windermere Cup/Opening Day races on Montlake Cut. The feature races’ sponsorship by Windermere Real Estate Inc. draws major national and international crews as part of the traditional opening of yachting season. This year’s race will take place on May 7 and will feature crews from Washington, Cambridge, Oklahoma and Stanford. Year-by-year winners of the Windermere Cup:
1: Number of gold medals that Washington has won in the pair competition at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta. The first and only medal came in 2001 when Jeff Jorgensen and Andy Altman triumphed. 3: Number of UW crews that have won medals in the Olympic Games. In 1936 (Berlin), the eight-oared shell won a gold medal. In 1948 (London), the UW won a gold medal in the mens coxed fours. In 1952 (Helsinki), the UW won a bronze in mens coxed fours. 7: Washington rowing coaches in the National Rowing Hall of Fame (year enshrined): Hiram Conibear…