Today’s question of the day concerns Trump and golf. Specifically, does the president cheat at golf, a sport played by some of the most ethical people around? I don’t have any empirical evidence on this one way or the other, but that won’t stop me from speculating about the answer.
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What’s your favorite part of the online Seattle Times Sports section? For me it’s not the pages devoted to the Seahawks or the Mariners or the main Sports section page. The page I look at most often is the TV & Radio page (see screen capture showing a small portion of it), which has the listings for just about every sport you can think of. If a sporting event is on TV or radio, chances are it will be listed here.
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Tomorrow is perhaps the best chance this season for my new Seahawks banner (see photo) to fulfill its primary game day duty. At -7.5 points according to ESPN, the Seahawks (1─1) are heavy favorites over the visiting New Orleans Saints (0─2). So no more waiting. At kickoff time, the banner will be mounted in place doing its best to help the team win, although the weather forecast (rain) shows little need for its secondary purpose.
Continue readingThe first MLB game played under the lights took place on May 24, 1935, in Cincinnati. This week, 84 years later, a two-game series between the Mariners and Athletics takes night baseball to the extreme—at least for Seattle and Oakland fans on the West Coast who want to watch or listen live as their teams kick off the 2019 season. The games are in Tokyo.
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DIY task: Please supply your own color photo of President Trump.
This morning, while watching his Rose Garden speech about the “deal” to end the government shutdown, I wondered, again, if it would be appropriate to recycle former Major League Baseball player Rusty Staub’s nickname when referring to President Trump. With his carrot-top hairdo and tanning-salon-hued skin, the president clearly fits the bill for the third word of the wondrous French phrase Le Grand Orange. He falls short, though, when you consider the true meaning of the second word.
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While surfing the Internet for something, anything, to convince me there will be a Tom Brady-free Super Bowl this year, a statistic I read makes me think otherwise. At first glance the stat seems to point to a Kansas City victory over New England in Sunday’s AFC championship game. That doesn’t make it any less amazing. Credit for the stat goes to an article by sportswriter Barry Wilner, who, for the record, picked the Patriots to win in an upset.
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Yesterday the Valpak mailer showed up in my mailbox. Normally I toss it without opening it. This time I browsed through the offers from various local businesses hoping there might be a coupon for Shur-Kleen car wash. There wasn’t, but the Valpak included something better—the 2014 Seattle Mariners baseball schedule.
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The perfect decoration for your Northwest deck
I just hope the same sign is up in two weeks when I take my usual Sunday bike ride along Beach Drive because that will mean the Seattle Seahawks are in the Super Bowl.
Go Hawks!
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It’s time to lose the Roman numeral designator that’s been part of the Super Bowl’s name and marketing since the game’s early days. Allow me to make a few suggestions on what could replace it.
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Go Zags!
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