Of the countless observations Mike Gastineau made during his 21-year career as a sports radio talk-show host at KJR 950-AM, none proved more significant than his ill-informed argument with one caller.
Atop the cover letter accompanying my ballot from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is a slogan:
The legion of those skeptical of Russell Wilson lost a coach Sunday.
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m announcing Wilson’s candidacy. The legion of those skeptical of Russell Wilson lost a coach Sunday.
My Heisman Trophy ballot is due in a few days. Because the Heisman Foundation frowns on voters disclosing their choices before the award is announced – I couldn’t live with myself, knowing somebody in New York is frowning at me – I’ll take the high road and keep my ballot selections to myself.
On what presumably was a rainy day in the Pacific Northwest, Bellarmine Prep assistant coach Red Smith once put together a list of the football players he most admired.
In the prime of his Hall of Fame career with the New York Yankees, Mickey Mantle was offered a contract for 1960 that cut his salary from $72,000 to $60,000. The Yankees were docking the superstar because they determined his 1959 season — he’d hit .285, with 31 homers — was a bust.
It took only a moment Sunday for the latest in a string of frustrating road defeats to look like a minor inconvenience in the mixed-up world of the Seattle Seahawks.
As Washington State fans flooded the Martin Stadium playing field after the Cougars’ 31-28 overtime Apple Cup victory over Washington on Friday, Danny Shelton trudged toward the tunnel leading to the visitors’ locker room and then turned around. The UW defensive tackle had a score to settle with the opponents, or their fans, or maybe just the world in general.
Last winter, when the Pacific-12 Conference announced a 2012 football schedule that slotted the Apple Cup for Nov. 23, Huskies and Cougars fans reacted with rare solidarity.
As soon as I heard the news Tuesday about Jeff Tedford losing his job as football coach at the University of California, my first thought wasn’t to bemoan a harsh business that makes good guys expendable, even when they’ve built legacies of accomplishment.
Bruce Arena didn’t know whether to gloat or sigh.
Miguel Cabrera didn’t thank the Seattle Mariners after winning the American League’s Most Valuable Player award Thursday by a surprising margin. Cabrera can be forgiven the oversight: During the contentious national baseball debate between the old fogies who favor traditional stats versus the nerdy geeks who analyze advanced metrics, the Mariners were as far away from the MVP race as they were from the playoff race.
Last weekend at CenturyLink Field, the Washington Huskies and the Seattle Seahawks won football games that seemed to mirror each other.
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