Considered a playoff contender heading into the 2017 season, the Mariners looked anything but during opening week as they went 1-6 in seven games against the Astros and Angels.
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.
A national championship won’t suddenly transform Gonzaga into Duke, but it will make the Zags the closest thing to the Blue Devils that the West Coast has to offer.
Career assistant (22 years) Mike Hopkins is a West Coast native and Syracuse alum who will take over the University of Washington basketball program. His story.
The Seahawks enter the free-agent signing period at 1 p.m. Thursday with 16 players hitting the open market as unrestricted free agents.
The University of Washington’s Kelsey Plum is on the verge of accomplishing one of the greatest career feats in state sports history. Where do you rank her imminent accomplishment?
Markelle Fultz seems primed to become the No. 1 pick in June’s NBA draft. If that happens, Fultz will have played on the worst college team ever to feature an impending No. 1.
Said rival Ronnie Lott of Kenny Easley: “He changed the game of football on the defensive side.” The Seahawks safety (1981-87) Saturday was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Bob Walsh, an entrepreneur who brought to the Puget Sound region nearly 100 sports and cultural events in the 1980s and 1990s, passed away Monday in Istanbul.
Edgar Martinez fell short of the 75 percent of the vote needed for Hall of Fame induction, but his trend line is headed up after he collected 58.6 percent. He was at 43.4 last year.
RB Thomas Rawls and WR Doug Baldwin worked their ways onto historic lists during the Seahawks’ 26-6 playoff victory over the Detroit Lions Saturday night at the Clink.