Takeaway It came down to a last-second shot, but the University of Washington men’s basketball team didn’t make it Saturday, losing 81-80 to the Colorado Buffaloes at the Coors Events Center Saturday (box). The Huskies have dropped three in a row and five of seven, while the Buffaloes leapfrogged them in the conference standings.
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The Seahawks Thursday dipped into the Canadian Football League, signing WR Jeff Fuller, who played the past three seasons with the Calgary Stampeders, and RB Cameron Marshall, who spent the past two with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Fuller is a product of Texas A&M, Marshall from Arizona State.
Takeaway Utah dropped in a trio of 3-pointers in a five-minute span late in the second half and pulled away from Washington for a 90-82 Pac-12 basketball victory Wednesday night at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City. The Huskies, done in by poor defense and the Utes’ 67.3 percent shooting, fell to 15-9, 7-5.
The Seattle Sounders announced Wednesday that FOX Sports’ Keith Costigan is their play-by-play broadcaster for TV, and tapped longtime pre-match radio host Matt Johnson to do play by play on the radio. For the first time, Seattle will have separate broadcasts for local radio and TV.
The Seahawks have signed 18 players to futures contracts, which include 13 who were on the 53-man active squad or the 10-man practice squad for at least part of 2015. Since practice squads dissolve after the season ends, the only way teams can keep such players is to sign them to futures contracts for the
The Mariners Wednesday signed Korean 1B Dae-Ho Lee and C Steve Lerud to minor league contracts and invited both to spring training. Lee spent the past four seasons playing in Japan with the Orix Buffaloes, and Lerud is a minor leaguer who received a taste of the majors in 2012 and 2013 while with the
Mariners TV broadcaster Dave Sims is recovering from surgery to remove his cancerous prostate Jan. 15 and is recovering well at home in New York. He hopes to to make it to spring training in Arizona soon.
For whatever it’s worth, Russell Wilson was king of the Pro Bowl in Honolulu Sunday. The Seahawks quarterback was named most valuable player after throwing three first-half touchdown passes to lead Team Irvin to a 49-27 victory over Team Rice.
Takeaway After falling behind by 11 points with a lame first half, Washington surged twice after intermission but couldn’t overcome USC, losing 98-88 Saturday at the Galen Center in Los Angeles. The Huskies (14-7, 6-3), who fell from first place into a tie for second in the Pac-12 race, could not stay with the Trojans,
Takeaway Thanks to the free-throw confidence of senior Andrew Andrews, the University of Washington men’s basketball team narrowly averted a major collapse Thursday after blowing a 19-point lead against UCLA at Pauley Pavilion, winning 86-84 (box) to sweep the season series. The Huskies remain tied for first in the Pac-12 with Oregon at 6-2 in