Burned out from reading too many books, disheartened by the news on cable TV and still a few hours away from my afternoon jog, I decided it was time to look for another way to deal with this coronavirus insanity.

Under different circumstances, Rick Rizzs would have been bubbling with enthusiasm Thursday — turned up to an even higher boil than normal from a man who thrives on undisguised zeal.

One could hypothesize that the postponement and cancellation of sporting events locally, regionally, nationally, and around the globe due to the coronavirus has been painful.

The NFL is now allowing teams to announce free agent signings, after a few days of keeping things unofficial because players can’t travel for physicals.

The coronavirus that prematurely ended Walla Walla Community College’s women’s basketball season earlier this month isn’t expected to negatively impact, at least in a big way, four-year colleges who are interested in recruiting Warrior sophomores.

Bobbi Hazeltine figures she’s at least one step ahead of the coronavirus when it comes to recruiting next year’s women’s basketball class at Walla Walla Community College.

I’ve often thought — and I still might be right — that oversaturation would lead to the NFL’s demise.

More money, more jobs, and more for retirement.

LOS ANGELES — What do we do now? What do we watch? Whom do we cheer? How do we cheer?

It was dizzying.

As the coronavirus crisis continues to dominate our world, the concept of “social distancing” is becoming an international catchphrase — not to mention a guiding principle of a safer way of life.

The best time to catch whitefish on a fly rod is in July when you’re fishing for trout.

So far, at least, spring training ballparks are drawing good crowds and NBA and NHL arenas are mostly full.

PEORIA, Ariz. — For the first time since perhaps infancy, Ichiro has begun a baseball season with no aspirations of being an active ballplayer.

PEORIA, Ariz. — You can take your pitch clocks and instant replay, your interleague games and expanded playoffs.

The morning of Sunday, Jan. 26 dawned in typical fashion for the University of Washington’s baseball team.

If a greater opportunity has awaited a first-year Pac-12 head coach, we are unaware.

I’ll bet you a buck to a dime that rarely a day goes by I don’t get a phone call from somebody either living here or visiting the area asking about the availability of a truly public pistol range.

Seahawks linebacker K.J. Wright thinks the most spectacular play in franchise history never should have happened.

It was Sophocles, the Greek tragedian, who said, “I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.”

One can’t help but wonder if Bryce Harper is experiencing buyer’s remorse this month as he watches his old team, the Washington Nationals, close in on a World Series championship.

The Seahawks could really have used Earl Thomas this week.

PEORIA, Ariz. — Julio Rodriguez has The Look.

CLEVELAND — They say never begin a story with a dictionary definition. 

GREENVILLE, S.C. — In a different time, it was an attractive little two-bedroom home, constructed in the early 1940s out of red brick and owned by one of the greatest players ever to grace the diamond, a towering yet tragic figure who lived the last half of his life and went to his grave as …

It was 24 years ago Tuesday that the Mariners played what remains the greatest game in their history, the one they’ve been fruitlessly clinging to and trying to replicate ever since.

We’ll start with the obvious: Your team’s chances of losing are greater if it is trailing at halftime than if it is leading. 

The two bull moose sat in a square of open ground under the fanning scales of cedar.

The Seahawks delivered a statement Thursday night, all right, just as they intended.

RENTON, Wash. — The Seahawks have forged the best prime-time record in the NFL on a very simple — though slightly incongruous — theory, preached ad nauseam into their consciousness by coach Pete Carroll.

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Six Pro Bowls. A Super Bowl ring. The NFL passer-rating leader in 2015. The NFL touchdown-pass leader in 2017. The second-best passer rating in NFL history. And, of course, 129 consecutive games played if you count the playoffs.

Happy Felix Day?

As Felix Hernandez prepares to make what almost certainly will be his final Mariners start today — No. 418 over a 15-year span — it’s long past the time to ponder where he went off track, and how he could have fixed it.

Chris Carson stood in front of his locker, speaking so quietly that you had to strain to hear.