Numbers can fascinate and amuse, and be used to start and settle all manner of sporting debates. But numbers can also tell stories. Here you’ll find the numbers that best reflect the pulse of sports in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
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.
Is this the year that former Seahawk Cortez Kennedy finally makes the Hall of Fame: Despite eight Pro Bowl appearances, he’s still only a bubble guy.
Player Rnd Pick Pos. Affiliation Darlington Nagbe 1 2 F Akron University Chris Taylor 2 22 D University of Tulsa *In the first round, Portland acquired the 11th overall pick in the MLS Draft from Seattle (later trading it to Houston for allocation money) and gave Seattle the 20th overall pick, allocation money and an international roster spot.
Player Rnd Pick Pos. Affiliation Omar Salgado 1 1 F United States U-20 Michael Nanchoff 1 8 M Akron University Jeb Brovsky 2 19 M Notre Dame Bilal Duckett 3 37 D Notre Dame *Vancouver acquired the No. 8 overall pickfrom Toronto FC in exchange for midfielder Nathan Sturgis, a former Sounder player.
Player Rnd. Pick Pos. Affiliation Michael Tetteh 2 20 Midfield UC-Santa Barbara Julio Leone 2 21 Defender Southern Methodist Servando Carrasco 2 27 Midfield California Bryan Merideth 2 29 Goalkeeper Monmouth Ales Caskey 3 47 Midfield Davidson College
The Sounders surprised by trading out of the first round of the MLS SuperDraft, taking UCSB midfielder with first choice
With the Seahawks getting ready to play the Bears, we wanted to get the scoop on the most popular team jerseys and gear. Noel Zanchelli pops the question.
Numbers can fascinate and amuse, and be used to start and settle all manner of sporting debates. But numbers can also tell stories. Here you’ll find the numbers that best reflect the pulse of sports in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
The Mariners agreed to terms with veteran infielder Adam Kennedy on Monday and invited him to spring training as a minor league free agent.
Seahawk fans are treated to wild win over the Saints and Marshawn Lynch delivers one of the greatest individual plays in Pacific Northwest sports history.