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Folks, we may be only a third of the way through the season, but the NFL MVP award is now Wilson's to lose. There is nobody in the league who has been as precise or consistent, nobody who has been this tough to slow down.
It was just a normal Saturday in the tense new world of college and pro football.
Have the Seahawks found a way to sustain the unsustainable?
Remember the viral photo on social media of "The Dress," where some people saw black and blue while others insisted it was white and gold? Fans probably have similarly contrasting views of the Seahawks right now.
In the Pete Carroll/Russell Wilson era, the Seahawks have produced some of the most talented teams to come through the NFL. But they've never produced one as entertaining as the one we're seeing now.
It could have been one of those buzz-silencing losses, the kind that takes the four weeks of joy that came before and makes you wonder if it's time to rethink it all.
COLUMN: The role of fire in the natural world is so interesting. Fire is particularly important to many plants and absolutely devastating to others.
Savor this, Seattle. Soak it in. It’s time to fully appreciate the grandeur that is the Seattle Storm.
Steve Largent's 1,287 receiving yards in 1985 is the Seahawks' season record. But if DK Metcalf keeps up this pace, that mark — and plenty of others — are in serious jeopardy
This is a college football season like no other, as you may have heard a time or three. But in one way, it's exactly like the others when it comes to the Pac-12's reputation.
After a 104-91 win over the Las Vegas Aces in Bradenton, Florida, on Sunday that was harder than the score might indicate, the Seattle Storm are on the verge of completing the task again with a 2-0 Finals lead in the best-of-five series.
The box score will fool you if you did not watch the game. It will tell a similar story to the Seahawks' previous three wins — that a spectacular offense overcame a disappointing defense and carried them to a 4-0 start.
They are arguably the two biggest winners in the history of women’s basketball — and that qualifier might be too restrictive. Wherever Sue Bird and Breanna Stewart go, championships just seem to follow — college titles, Olympic titles, overseas titles and WNBA titles.
Jimmy Lake says he has clung to the long-ago words of his Husky predecessor, Chris Petersen, to help navigate his way through the madness of his first head-coaching job. When Lake was on Petersen's Boise State staff, his mentor told the assistants, "When you're a head coach, you're a problem-solver."
It's officially time to worry about the Seattle defense — and if you want to substitute "panic" for "worry," well, that would be premature. But mainly because the Seahawks offense keeps bailing them out.
No need for an asterisk.
Six months ago, all sports in this country shut down due to COVID-19 concerns. On Thursday, the Pac-12 announced it was returning this fall, completing a return to sports that help a return to normalcy.
As the Mariners near the end of a season that produced a brief period of playoff hopes before reality set in, one question looms largest. And it's a depressingly familiar one. Just how close are they to legitimate contention?
Defensive end Bruce Irvin and safety/nickel cornerback Marquise Blair are out for the year for the Seahawks after suffering ACL tears Sunday night.
As Seahawk L.J. Collier said, still flush with the glow of his hit on Patriots QB Cam Newton that saved the game at the 1-yard line, "Imagine if we had fans here today. Seattle would still be shaking."
Angles, storylines and talking points abounded. It was a topic buffet for anyone who wanted to dive into that Sunday night thriller when the Seahawks beat the Patriots, 35-30.
COLUMN: I had a No. 4 Orvis that was light as the longest feather from the tail of a wild, rooster pheasant.
Last winter’s storms took their toll on our regional trails.
For many Americans — possibly millions — this may be the worst August they can remember. Unemployment is still stratospheric, social restrictions are still ubiquitous, and the tunnel that is this coronavirus pandemic remains dim.
A few days ago, the column on the Mariners’ home opener seemed inevitable regardless of the result: If there was ever a year in which fans couldn’t be present, this was it.
SEATTLE — There was little doubt that the best linebacker in the game would field questions about one of the top safeties in the game. And on Wednesday, Bobby Wagner was all too happy to praise the newly acquired Jamal Adams, a former Jets DB.
So here we are, nearly four months late to the party, trying to wrap our brains, and our masks, around the most … unique … season in baseball history.
Our guide Sancho carefully drew a map in the air with his index finger, uttering words that cause fly anglers to scratch their chins with a measure of dignity, before scratching themselves.
Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott said Thursday that the conference is prepared to pivot quickly to alternate football scenarios in the event a 12-game regular season cannot start on time because of the coronavirus surge.
Blake Treinen was rolling south on Interstate 84 somewhere in central Idaho last week when I finally caught up with him
We’ll start with the bad news: The stat geeks don’t think the Mariners have much of a chance.
Ron Meek and I stood on the banks of Boulder River near Big Timber and watched a jet boat the size of a Florida shrimper power up the roiling water that dumped from the Absaroka Range into the Yellowstone.
In putting together a recent column that focused on the first game in Seattle Seahawks history, I was struck by the many connections between that game and Walla Walla.
It’s been nearly a half a century since the National Football League arrived in the Pacific Northwest.
I struck gold again the other evening on my way to Graze to pick up a couple of sandwiches — cold steak for my wife Margaret and a BLT for yours truly.
The chances of an average golfer making a hole-in-one are roughly 12,500 to 1 according to the National Hole-In-One Registry.
I had just been discharged from active duty in the fall of 1967 when the St. Louis Cardinals met the Boston Red Sox in the World Series.
Imagine working 80-hour weeks for years on end with the sole goal of becoming an NFL coach.
Watching televised replays of sporting events has proved to be one way to fill the void of live-action games that have been plunged into a deep freeze for a good two months because of the coronavirus.
I’m like any other sports fanatic from Fargo to Fort Worth, from Kennewick to Key West.
This spring would have been Lon Olson’s 25th and final season as head golf coach at DeSales High School.
It was truly an honor to broadcast Walla Walla Sweets baseball last summer and be part of such an exciting season.
Digging through my Blue Mountain Sports Awards files and gleaning details that were needed for recent columns that appeared in this space turned out to be for me a pleasant trip down memory lane.
The panel of judges responsible for determining the winners of the Blue Mountain Sports Awards these past 43 years should be commended for their dedication and fairness.
Former DeSales High School football coach Mike Spiess’s involvement with the program touched four decades — from 1986-2018.
Broadcasting, newspaper writing, public address announcing and statistical gathering have been cornerstones of my life for the better part of four decades.
I remember attending a couple of meetings back in late 1976 — or perhaps it was early 1977 — when the first Blue Mountain Sports Awards was in its planning stages.
Walla Walla Community College’s women’s soccer program — now some two-and-a-half decades old — has proven to be quite formidable in the Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC), formally the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges (NWAACC).
