The greatest third baseman in Chicago Cubs history
Author: Steve Rudman
Steve Rudman
Steve began his journalistic career in an era in which social networking mainly occurred in saloons. In the years since, he has been a reporter and columnist (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), a magazine founder and editor (The National Sports Review), the Director of Research at ESPN (once had the chore of looking up the history of rain delays in major league baseball), a radio talk show host (fired by KIRO because stupid people need radio stations, too, according to the program director), and the producer of a syndicated sports statistical feature (titled Wow!Stats), distributed by Universal Press Syndicate (quick, name three countries in which athletes are eaten when they fail to perform). He wrote (with Karen Chave) 100 Years of Husky Football, Who The Hell is Bob? (one of Seattles more remarkable people) and collaborated with Art Thiel (Sports Press Northwest) and Mike Gastineau (KJR-AM) on The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists, a ribald compendium of Seattle sports exotica that should be made into a movie (Brad Pitt playing Steve). He gained everlasting infamy in 1985 (at least in Corvallis, Ore.), when, in a column in the Post-Intelligencer, he called the Oregon State Beavers The Barney Fife of College Football, then sat stupefied as the 37-point underdog Beavers cast aside a 28-year slump and beat the Huskies. As of this writing, that game (which resulted in an official, Oregon State-issued game ball for Steve) still generates 314,000 Google pages, most of them from unenlightened (and presumably salt pillar-licking) OSU fans. Steve has yet to issue an apology on Facebook or Twitter and has no plans to do so.
Verbal pre-game decorum rarely prevails in the Apple Cup rivalry, regardless of whether Washington and Washington State are ranked or wretched or both. The series tradition of trash talk dates to Nov. 27, 1900, or three days before UW and WSU engaged in the inaugural scrum.
Erik Bedard never got on the mound in 2010, but the Mariners elected to offer him a contract for the 2011 season. It’s surprising in some ways, not so surprising in others.
Watch and listen as three former University of Washington quarterbacks — Damon Huard, Hugh Millen and Marques Tuiasosopo share their memories of the state’s biggest game — the Apple Cup.
The Huskies had a great week, claiming their third last-play victory of the season, while keeping their bowl hopes alive. The Seahawks virtually knocked themselves out of playoff contention, and the UW basketball team, in two losses, proved it can play with the best.
Numbers can fascinate and amuse, and be used to start and settle all manner of sporting debates. But numbers can also tell stories. Here you’ll find the numbers that best reflect the pulse of sports in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest .
Jake Locker’s disappointing senior season seems to be a re-run of Sonny Sixkiller’s final year (1972) when the Husky great suffered through an injury-marred season
Numbers can fascinate and amuse, and be used to start and settle all manner of sporting debates. Numbers can also tell stories. Here you’ll find the numbers that best reflect the pulse of sports in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest .
The UW football team plays its worst game under Steve Sarkisian, the Seahawks expose themselves as the weakest division leader in the NFL, and Jerramy Stevens falls on his sword, signaling the end of his athletic career.
While the Seahawks improved to 4-2 by beating recent nemesis Arizona, the Washington Huskies virtually eliminated themselves from bowl consideration with a devastating loss in the desert.