Sports Ramblings
--We were feeling like sort of a dork for spending our Friday night at the Garfield/Franklin football game, but less so when current NY Knick Nate Robinson sat down about fifteen feet from us. Robinson's brother Jacque is a senior running back for the Bulldogs. Older brother was there with a few friends. For the most part, people left him alone. We snapped a few clandestine photos of us with the Great in the background.
--The Seattle Times' Larry Stone reports that it looks like Mike Hargrove will be back as Mariners manager in 2007. What is it about slow-witted Texans that makes people want to rehire them no matter how incompetent they are?
--Husky fans showed they aren't fairweather in the least. Nearly 60,000 showed up to cheer on a team that's won four games in two years. Loud yelling caused three Fresno State false starts and forced them to burn several timeouts. In a one-point game, that could've been the difference.
--Isaiah Stanback put the Huskies on his shoulders on Saturday. The running game wasn't working (FSU has two mammoth defensive tackles), so it was up to Stanback's arm and improvising legs. He was fantastic.
--Now that Deion Branch is a Seahawk, Mike Holmgren can justify throwing every down, which is what he'd do if he could. He gave up on the run early in Sunday's game against Arizona, resulting in a dismal second quarter with three straight three-and-outs.
--But props to Holmgren for giving Mack Strong a chance to score a TD. Strong, not Alexander, got the call from the three yard line in the fourth quarter. He ran it up the middle for his first TD since the 2003 season.
--The Seahawks offense is demonstrably worse than last year's. They scored only 21 points yesterday on an Arizona defense that allowed 27 to the awful 49ers. But the Hawks defense is fantastic. The Cards had fantastic field position all game, but the defense allowed only 10 points, coming up with big plays when they had to.
Another big home weekend of football is coming up. The Huskies host UCLA in the Pac-10 opener for both teams, and the Seahawks host the Giants.
