As a preteen reader, one of my favorite books was The Perfect Game (see photo). I read it at least a half-dozen times. As an adult, I have never been able to find a copy of it for sale online. That is, until I worked with a librarian a few weeks ago.
Continue readingI’m not sure if Major League Baseball schedules a rivalries weekend every year, but every time they do, it must be fun for fans. Of the 15 three-game series being played this weekend, 10 feature teams from the same city/metro area or the same state. Let’s look at how the first day of rivalries weekend went.
Continue readingThis week the NBA Board of Governors voted to begin the process to expand the NBA to 32 teams. Local media has been all over this story because it will almost certainly result in Seattle being awarded one of the two new franchises. One angle I haven’t seen covered though is the possibility that Kevin Durant might still be playing in the NBA when the new Seattle SuperSonics debut for the 2028‒29 season.
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The Seattle Times is not known for posting clickbait headlines and content. But as the primary online news source in the home of the Seattle Seahawks, a link they posted this morning on their home page (see screen capture) is more outrageous than newsworthy. Hawks fans will likely click the link with the expectation of being able to post withering comments that thoroughly debunk whatever confused arguments the article is trying to make.
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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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