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RB Marshawn Lynch showed up on the injury list Friday as questionable with abdominal pain, but coach Pete Carroll after practice sounded optimistic that the star rusher will be ready to go Sunday night at home against division-leading Arizona (5:30 p.m., NBC). “We think so,” Carroll said. “He thinks he’s okay.”

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If you have been amused by Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show bit called “Superlatives,” you are probably not a Seattle Seahawk. Fallon takes mug shots of NFL players and offers yearbook-comment-style mockery, such as in September when he showed LG J.R. Sweezy in a fearsome glare: “Most like to say, ‘As you wish, master,’ every time

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Washington State quarterback Luke Falk has been named the Pac-12 offensive player of the week for his 497-yard, five-TD performance in the Cougars’ 38-24 comeback win over Arizona State Saturday. The redshirt sophomore has won the award three times this season and four times for his career in 12 starts.

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According to ESPN, the Mariners are set to hire former Washington Nationals (2007-09) and Cleveland Indians (2010-12) manager Manny Acta as their third base coach. The 46-year-old Acta will become the third new member of new manager Scott Servais’s coaching staff, joining bench coach Tim Bogar and pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre Jr.

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Takeaway Luke Falk engineered a seven-play, 99-yard drive midway through the fourth quarter that  lifted Washington State to a 38-24 victory over Arizona State Saturday at Martin Stadium and made the Cougars bowl eligible at 6-3, 4-2 (box) — a remarkable turnaround after WSU dropped its season opener to Portland State of the FCS Big

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