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Category Archives: Sports
NFL team’s logo links Super Bowl fans to indigenous roots
From BBC written by Max Matza (Seattle) – thanks to Ed M. Wallace Nagedzi Watts had been going to Seahawks games for almost three decades when a historical discovery helped supercharge his fandom – and deepened his connection to his … Continue reading
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Blame for Rams’ loss to Seahawks begins with Sean McVay
Ed note: Thought you’d enjoy the view from the other side! Rams coach Sean McVay reacts during the third quarter of a 31-27 loss to the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC championship game Sunday. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) … Continue reading
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Julio’s last at bat for 2025
Thanks to Mike C.
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Cricket in Seattle?! Go Orcas!
FOX 13 Seattle and ROOT Sports will carry live local broadcasts of all Seattle Orcas games throughout the 2025 Major League Cricket season From Bob P. “Just discovered that Seattle has a Cricket team. Perhaps we are among the last to learn … Continue reading
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Skydiving indoors!
Team Singapore 4-Way Dynamic Free Routine at the World Indoor Skydiving Championships Thanks to Bob P. Routine in the grand final against Switzerland. The championship winning Singapore team of Kai Minejima-Lee, Kyra Poh, Vera Poh, and Choo Yi Xuan’s viral … Continue reading
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Want to stop the ‘tush push’? Take a look at this 464-pound 2025 NFL Draft prospect
By Vic Tafur in the NYT Ed note: Is 500 pounds next? What’s the “logical” extreme as football seems to be creating an atmosphere promoting its own demise–and that of the players. What are your thoughts? Some teams wanted to get … Continue reading
From Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge to Juan Soto, Bryce Harper: 16 players in MLB playoffs who earn more than entire Tigers roster
from Sportskeeda – thanks to Mike C.
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Huskies and Cougars football game will be showing in MBR noon Saturday (game is 12:30 PM)
Life Style has arranged for viewing of the game which is backed out by Comcast (apparently negotiations continue between Comcast and BTN).
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56 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Pictures From The Paris Olympics
by Matt Stopera in BuzzFeed (thanks to Bob P.) 1. First and foremost, the finish line of the triathlon. 2. Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh getting over the bar in woman’s high jump. 3. I didn’t even know the human body could contort this way! (Continued)
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Recycled bottle tops and tables made from shuttlecocks – the greenest Olympics?
Ciaran Varley and Dave Lockwood, BBC Sport journalists, Published23 July 2024 Thanks to Pam P. The organising committee of Paris 2024 has vowed to make it the greenest Games in Olympic history, with half the carbon footprint of London 2012 … Continue reading
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No AC but the ‘greenest’ ever Games? Inside Paris’ landmark Olympic Village
By Joshua Berlinger, CNN (Thanks to Pam P) Air filters line a street in the Olympic Village in Saint-Denis. Nathan Laine/Bloomberg/Getty Images When Paris last hosted the Summer Olympics 100 years ago, organizers were so keen to bring athletes under the same roof … Continue reading
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College Football is in Full Conflagration: We Need a New National Model
By Art Thiel in Post Alley (thanks to Ed M.) Did the University of Washington just move to Oklahoma City? No. UW did not replicate the stunt that cost Seattle the Sonics 15 years ago, and counting. The university and … Continue reading
Gig Harbor Sailor: A Second Solo Circumnavigation Around the World
By Ted Olinger Once you become the first person to circumnavigate the globe alone under your own power — 41,196 miles of rowing solo across the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic oceans, then pedaling a bicycle across and scaling mountains over … Continue reading
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Mitch Albom: Coach Lloyd Carr goes to Haiti; a minicamp unlike any other
Thanks to Mary Jane F. Detroit Free Press, Sunday June 25, 2023 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The old football coach had a new team. They were young. They were skinny. Many were small. And they had never played the game before. … Continue reading
Camp Lewis 91st Division football team plays the Mare Island Marines in the Rose Bowl on January 1, 1918.
Thanks to Bob P. This article was published on History Link by Duane Colt Denfeld, Ph.D. On January 1, 1918, two armed-services football teams, composed largely of former star college players now on active duty, meet in the 1918 Rose … Continue reading
The soccer fans turn out in Argentina
Thanks to Mike C. Note: It’s reported that Trump stated that his crowds were “at least 10 time greater.”
Mariner’s game in Sky Lounge at 1 PM tomorrow (Thursday the 13th)
Come watch the Mariner’s game for a few hours before going the the quarterly SRA meeting at 3:30 PM. It’s a chance to meet and greet and cheer for the M’s. BYOB and snacks (and please clean up!).
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October baseball is here!
Thanks to Mike C.
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Hey Mariners, check your rear view mirror!
Thanks to Mike C.
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Corporate deliberations with Russell Wilson gone
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Amazing competition in badminton and ping pong
Thanks to Sybil-Ann
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