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
After a week of travel encounters, the Huskies and Texas Longhorns play the first U.S. regular-season basketball game, collegiate or professional, at 7 p.m. PT in Shanghai.
Nelson Cruz is the first Silver Slugger winner for the Mariners since Ichiro Suzuki in 2009. Cruz belted 44 home runs and led Seattle in numerous offensive categories.
14-year veteran eliever Joaquin Benoit, 38, had a good season with the San Diego Padres and now belongs to the Mariners after a trade that cost two minor league prospects.
Free agent OF Franklin Gutierrez, whose career was presumed done after a series of injuries and ailments, signed a one-year deal with the Mariners after a 59-game comeback in 2015.
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.
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.
Ken Griffey Jr., who hit 417 home runs for the Seattle Mariners and 630 overall in 22 major league seasons, tops a list of 15 new candidates for the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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