Tip-Off Tues...dammit. Tip-Off Wednesday

The hometown Portland Trailblazers make a special appearance in Seattle tonight, taking on the Oklahoma City Sonics. It's the season opener for both teams.

Also today, tickets for some of the Husky men's non-conference games in the 2006 portion of the 2006-07 season go on sale. That exciting slate includes a bunch of schools that have "state" in their names even though they aren't actual states, like Sacramento State and Portland State, and schools that are from states that barely count, like Idaho. The best game in this group is against Eastern Washington, as they have Rodney Stuckey, who was honorable All-America last year as a freshman.

Tickets went on sale at 8:30, but we didn't tell you about it until now so we could get boffo seats for the Southern Utah game. T-Birds, you are goin' down!