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Using the theory that anything that hurts the Astros helps the Mariners, the beleaguered Seattle baseball team already has had a magnificent offseason.
If the newest MLS Cup was a living, conscious being, it would have felt neglected Tuesday.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — This was a game of cataclysmic jolts and shocks, stunning twists and turns, one defensive seismographic special begetting another.
Stefan Frei confessed that Sunday’s match was particularly difficult to prepare for.
For the sporting fans of Seattle, this will be is a rare and precious opportunity Sunday.
RENTON, Wash. – The Seahawks have nudged, trudged, finessed, finagled, willed and Wilson’d their way to a 7-2 record.
SEATTLE — Last week’s sponsorship deal between NHL Seattle and the Muckleshoot Casino was clearly a precursor to a potentially larger sports-gaming pact.
Sometimes, to let him know it’s not a full interrogation, you lob a softball at a player before a line of critical questions.
A basalt pile decorates much of Eastern Washington and Eastern Oregon, thanks to some lively volcanic action millions of years ago.
ATLANTA — This one, finally, was going to be a romp, a much-needed break from the nervous breakdowns of Seattle second halves past.
OAKESDALE, Wash. — Pomeroy saw its 10-game Southeast 1B League volleyball winning streak snapped here Thursday night as Oakesdale took down the Pirates in straight sets to clinch at least a share of the league championship.
PRESCOTT — St. John-Endicott-Lacrosse downed Prescott in straight sets here Thursday night in the Tigers' fiinal home volleyball match of the season.
BURBANK, Wash. — Senior Emily Ness led DeSales with 14 assists here Thursday night as she closed out her prep volleyball career in an Irish uniform.
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.
September of 2019 was mostly warm, dry and clear — and now just a blip in time and history.
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.
GLENDALE, Ariz. — About 20 minutes after Sunday’s game, a reporter asked running back Chris Carson about the 12-yard gain he had in the fourth quarter to give the Seahawks a critical first down.
A black rooster — an escapee from a local farm? — struts along a quiet mud flat, thankful to not have sunk in to his comb.
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.
Pete Carroll wasn’t going to get any sympathy for his busted nose Sunday.
CLARK FORK — We crossed the river bridge and then headed west before climbing out of the frogwater lowlands at Derr Island near Clark Fork.
Jerry Dipoto stood in front of about 200 hard-core Mariners’ fans on Wednesday and explained, in detail, how well he thought the step-back plan is progressing, and why.
Just before taking a swipe at California at large, Washington State football coach Mike Leach answered a question about one of the Golden State’s new bills: California’s Fair Pay for Play Act, which awaits Governor Gavin Newsom’s signature after passing through the legislature unanimously an…
PITTSBURGH – They have won two games by a grand total of three points against teams that by November – or sooner – might look like they actually should have been pushovers.
PITTSBURGH — Age is just a number, as they say — and the Seahawks’ players can hardly believe that Pete Carroll’s number became 68 on Sunday.
EVERETT — The number of seats sans a gluteus maximus was conspicuously high Wednesday night. The view behind each basket was particularly glaring, as chairs outnumbered bodies by at least five to 1.
If the Seattle Storm had failed to make the playoffs in defense of their 2018 WNBA title, it would have been an excused absence.
SEATTLE — There was a go-route snag from an athletic freak who had Hall of Fame hype before he ever played a down. There was a QB sack from a three-time Pro Bowl selection who broke the internet the day he signed with Seattle.
It was, said Bobby Wagner, an ugly win by the Seahawks — a frank assessment for which wide receiver Tyler Lockett had a slightly franker amendment.
With August about to vanish into history, I write this column about members of a community that live with hard time constraints.
Just after his team’s comeback win against Oregon, on a weekend when the Pac-12’s image took another right hook to the dome, Auburn running back JaTarvious Whitlow transformed into JaTrollious Whitlow.
According to NFL lore, future Hall of Fame center Jim Ringo of the Green Bay Packers showed up in coach Vince Lombardi’s office after the 1963 season, seeking a raise.
Chris Petersen caused much merriment a couple of years ago when he picked Mike Leach as the Pac-12 coach with whom he would most like to take a road trip.
If you are one of the many people in our Valley who enjoy the shooting sports, you are probably livid at all the stories of gang shootings and senseless violence hitting the front pages these days.
RENTON, Wash. — Much like Andrew Luck, his old college teammate at Stanford, Doug Baldwin listened to his aching body and walked away from football in May.
The word coach Chris Petersen used to describe the timing of the Jake Haener drama was “awkward.”
Soak it all in, folks – all the grand gestures and trademark mannerisms, all the splendor that’s left of Felix Hernandez.
