The Mariners, apparently having landed upon Eric Wedge as their new manager, could hire any combination of Connie Mack, Leo Durocher and Joe Torre and it still wouldn’t address the club’s most fundamental issues, TWTWTW opines.
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.
Sounders FC enjoyed its best week of the MLS season, but the Washington Husky football team almost clinched an eighth consecutive season without a bowl game. Best & Worst of The Week That Was.
Please tell us how Seattle managed to get stuck with the worst batting order in American League history, and also the worst NFL offense in 2010.
Today we present the greatest one-year wonders in Seattle sports history. They range from Spencer Hawes, who bailed out of Washington after his freshman year, to Cliff Lee, who spent half a season with the Mariners before they traded him to Texas. 5 Spencer Hawes, UW, 2007: The 6-11 center from Seattle Prep could have teamed on Washingtons front line with Jon Brockman for three years (2007-09), likely ensuring three trips to the NCAA Tournament over that span rather than just one. But Hawes wanted the money and got it $2.1 million from the Sacramento Kings. 4 Joe…
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History works against Heisman hopefuls who lose on Opening Day
It has become obligatory in every story about new Seahawks coach Pete Carroll to note that he had less-than-satisfactory results (career record of 33-31) during his first two stints in the NFL, first with the New York Jets, then with the New England Patriots.
You know about 200 hits, but did you know that Ichiro is the most golden of gloves?