In today's sports briefs, the Nuggets shock the Clippers in 3 overtimes to win Game 7 and the LPGA's Portland Classic is reduced to 54 holes due to poor air quality.
National Sports
The Mariners' weekend series slated in Seattle against the Padres has been moved to San Diego due to poor air quality from wildfire smoke.
RENTON, Wash.— Pete Carroll saw what happened in the season opener as New England put the ball in the hands of new quarterback Cam Newton and he ran all over the Miami Dolphins.
RENTON — The Seahawks' defensive numbers Sunday at Atlanta hardly indicated a team that has turned the corner from last year's struggles.
“We’re far from done,” Storm guard Jordin Canada said Tuesday during a Zoom call.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Brandon Belt, Brandon Crawford and Evan Longoria homered for San Francisco, and the visiting Giants playing at home beat the Seattle Mariners 9-3 on Wednesday night in a game moved to the Bay Area because of smoky, dangerous air in Western Washington.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Valeri Qazaishvili scored in the 76th minute and the San Jose Earthquakes tied the Portland Timbers 1-1 on Wednesday night.
Following a return from an Achilles injury that wiped out her 2019 WNBA season, Storm forward Breanna Stewart regained her place among the league’s premier players and named the Associated Press comeback player of the year.
Just about everyone had L.A. vs. L.A. written in for the Western Conference finals. Then along came the resilient Denver Nuggets, who crashed the party.
Sunday’s game had to feel like one of the stranger ones of Chris Carson’s career.
The two-game series between the San Francisco Giants and Mariners in Seattle that was scheduled to start tonight was postponed because of poor air quality caused by the West Coast wildfires.
The World Series will be played entirely at the Texas Rangers’ new ballpark in Arlington, Texas, and Major League Baseball hopes fans can attend.
Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll had plenty to say — and most of it good — following his team’s 38-25 victory in the season opener over the Falcons when he talked to media members via Zoom on Monday and also held his first weekly radio show on 710 ESPN Seattle.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — There was one overriding reason Ben Roethlisberger worked so hard to return from a major elbow injury.
The WNBA playoff field is finally set and will tipoff today now that the league’s abridged 22-game season has come to an end.
DENVER — A day after Tom Brady’s dud of a debut for Tampa Bay, Stephen Gostkowski failed to put all that Patriots pedigree to work in his first game with the Tennessee Titans.
The Mariners rallied from five runs down in the opening game of twin bill on Monday to beat Oakland, 6-5, before the A's hand Seattle a 9-0 defeat in the nightcap.
Kyle Lewis makes a leaping, grand-slam robbing catch in Mariners' play of the year.
Kyle Lewis sparked Seattle’s rally with a two-run homer and walked with the bases loaded in the sixth inning, helping the Mariners top the Oakland Athletics 6-5 on Monday in the opener of a doubleheader.
NAPA, Calif. — Stewart Cink’s long wait is finally over. He doesn’t have to worry about being cast as a villain, either, as was the case when Cink outlasted fan favorite Tom Watson to win the 2009 British Open.
Today's doubleheader between the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics today at T-Mobile Park in Seattle is still scheduled to be played despite poor air quality from wildfire smoke.
The Tour de France boiled down to a battle between its two star Slovenian riders Sunday as last year's winner Egan Bernal dropped out of realistic contention.
The Seattle Storm finished the WNBA's shortened regular season with the second-best record in the league following Sunday's 86-84 loss to the Las Vegas Aces in Bradenton, Florida.
A U.S. Open unlike any other finished unlike any other — and Dominic Thiem constructed a comeback the likes of which hadn’t been seen in 71 years.
There was plenty to celebrate for the Seahawks in Atlanta on Sunday as they kicked off the regular season with a 38-25 victory over the Falcons.
Donovan Walton had three RBIs, and the Seattle Mariners beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-3 on Sunday.
PHOENIX (AP) — Ty France and José Marmolejos hit homers, Justus Sheffield pitched seven quality innings and the Seattle Mariners snapped a three-game losing streak by beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-3 on Saturday night.
Four years after Colin Kaepernick took a knee, this is where we are with the NFL.
Van Morrison sang about going “Into the Mystic.”
TACOMA — As the smoke cloud began to overtake the South Puget Sound late Friday morning, making the scenery beyond the walls of Cheney Stadium into hazy outlines and air quality the equivalent of the feeling of licking an ashtray, it seemed like the long-awaited sight of Emerson Hancock pitc…
PHOENIX — Caleb Smith had a miserable start to the abbreviated 2020 season, but it didn't have anything to do with his performance on the field. Instead, he was one of more than a dozen Miami Marlins who was quarantining in separate small hotel rooms after testing positive for COVID-19.
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Jordin Canada scored 13 points and the Seattle Storm routed the Phoenix Mercury 83-60 on Friday night for their seventh victory in a row.
Just about the only thing that looked familiar about the NFL's long-awaited return Thursday night was the sight of Patrick Mahomes effortlessly leading the Kansas City Chiefs up and down the field.
Serena Williams already was struggling to keep up in a fast-paced U.S. Open semifinal when she stopped behind the baseline after a third-set point and leaned over. She held that pose for a bit, then clutched at her lower left leg and asked for a trainer.
Will the Storm have Breanna Stewart and Sue Bird back for final regular-season games? It's questionable.
RENTON, Wash. — No team played more base defense — meaning, leaving all three linebackers on the field — than the Seahawks in 2019.
Jamal Adams needed a fresh start. The Seahawks needed a superstar. Both got their wish.
POITIERS, France (AP) — Australian sprinter Caleb Ewan secured his second stage victory at this year's Tour de France in a chaotic dash to the finish Wednesday that saw Peter Sagan penalized for barging a rival.
NEW YORK — They were just two particular points from Serena Williams’ latest three-set comeback at the U.S. Open, yet they were pivotal and consisted of the sorts of lengthy exchanges filled with athleticism and brilliance that in any other, non-pandemic year would be marked by thousands of …
The Storm locked up a spot in the WNBA semifinals following a 107-95 shootout victory over Dallas on Wednesday in Bradenton, Fla.
SAN FRANCISCO — Mike Yastrzemski hit a three-run homer as the San Francisco Giants defeated the Seattle Mariners 10-1 for their fifth straight win Wednesday night under skies turned orange by raging wildfires in Northern California.
The Seahawks made a switch at the receiver position Tuesday as they prepare for their regular season opener at Atlanta, signing Penny Hart off the practice squad and waiving John Ursua.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The idea a year ago that the San Francisco 49ers would win the NFC West following a three-year stretch of winning just 12 games combined seemed far-fetched.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pinch-hitter Darin Ruf homered with one out in the seventh inning and the San Francisco Giants beat Seattle 6-5 on Tuesday night, ending the Mariners’ six-game winning streak.
NEW YORK — Roster cuts were made and practice squads filled out around the NFL during what's always a busy weekend on the league's waiver wire.
NEW YORK — Her breathing loud enough to hear in an empty Arthur Ashe Stadium, her third-set deficit a point from growing to 3-1 against someone who beat her less than two weeks earlier, Serena Williams scrambled to extend a 13-stroke exchange until her opponent netted a forehand.
The remaining Tour de France riders were cleared to continue racing ahead of Tuesday’s Stage 10 after undergoing COVID-19 tests, but the Tour director tested positive and left the race.
ATLANTA — Dustin Johnson only looks like he plays without a pulse.
RENTON, Wash. — While Seahawks coach Pete Carroll was happy to call one starting position Monday — center — he somewhat surprisingly hedged on another, the right cornerback spot.
RENTON, Wash. — The Seahawks’ long dalliance with Jadeveon Clowney finally over, Seattle coach Pete Carroll finally felt comfortable Monday to shed some light on how the negotiations unfolded.
The playoff push has begun for the Mariners.
