Four Washington Huskies earned All-Pac-12 accolades Monday, topped by guard Andrew Andrews, the first UW player since 2012 to become a first-team choice.
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The Huskies finished in a three-way tie for sixth in the conference race and will face Stanford in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament that begins Wednesday in Las Vegas.
Seattle draws Sporting Kansas City in its MLS lid-lifter Sunday, which includes the MLS debut of heralded rookie Jordan Morris of Stanford and Mercer Island.
Mariners general manager Jerry Dipoto compares starting pitcher Taijuan Walker to Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton in terms of their athletic abilities.
According to an ESPN report, Seahawks free agent wide receiver Jermaine Kearse does not plan on returning to the team in 2016 and is looking forward to finding a new team.
Takeaway The Seattle Sounders struck first in the 41st minute, but Liga MX’s Club América took under 60 seconds to respond, then scored twice more in next eight minutes at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. The 3-1 victory made for a 5-3 aggregate score to eliminate the Sounders from the CONCACAF Champions League knockout round
Thunder owner Aubrey McClendon, who helped engineer the 2008 relocation of the Seattle SuperSonics to Oklahoma City, died in a fiery car crash early Wednesday.
The Sounders Tuesday signed St. Vincent and the Grenadines international Oalex Anderson, a 20-year-old who spent the 2015 season with Sounders FC 2 in the club’s inaugural USL campaign. He scored four goals in 16 appearances. Anderson joins fellow forward Andy Craven as the second player to make the jump from S2 to the first-team
In order to accommodate the Feb. 23 signing of Cuban defector Guillermo Heredia, the Mariners Tuesday placed backup catcher Jesus Sucre on the 60-day disabled list. While the 25-year-old Heredia will compete for a job as a backup outfielder, Sucre will rehab a right fibula fractured Jan. 17 during winter ball in Venezuela.
Takeaway Plagued by mental mistakes, foul problems and a lack of discipline, the Washington Huskies lost to the Oregon Ducks 86-73 Sunday night in Eugene, virtually eliminating any chance they might have had of receiving an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament (box). The Huskies (16-13, 8-9), who have dropped seven of their past nine, will have to defeat Washington State Wednesday and win at least two games in the Pac-12 Tournament to have any chance to reach the Big Dance.