It's been an active few nights above Washington, and tonight's sky should be no different. Early Tuesday morning a meteor streaked across the sky over Eastern Washington. People as far away as Oregon and Idaho reported seeing strange bright lights and hearing a sonic boom. A hospital surveillance camera in Spokane caught the meteor on film, which has become the top watched video on CNN over the past 24 hours. Tonight's sky should be......

President Gerald Ford's memorial service is today, we thought we'd present these remarks Ford (shown here with George Harrison) made about Seattle upon his visit here as president on September 4th, 1975. Not the most interesting reading, but they seem extemporaneous and are perhaps a good snapshot of what one president thought when he thought of Seattle in the 70s: fish, Boeing, and international trade:It is really wonderful to be in Seattle, and I......

The 2006 Seahawks schedule was released this morning. They open at Detroit, and have two home Monday night games-- vs. Oakland on November 6th, and vs. Green Bay on Nov. 27th. A few Hawks are making international waves. DE Bryce Fisher, a graduate of the Air Force Academy, is on a USO tour. Here he is in Afghanistan. Some practice squad guys are doing well in NFL Europe. QB Gilbran Hamdan was named offensive player......

-Yesterday Seattle police announced the creation of a panel to look into the motivations of Seattle mass-murderer Kyle Huff. -Gov Gregoire has signed the state's budget and WA has cut back to $200 a week to spend on groceries, $50 for entertainment and $50 for gas to save $940 million. -Microsoft has learned from an independent EU monitor what it can do to avoid fines of $2.4 million per day stemming from its anti-trust......

Brandon Roy carried the Huskies to yet another win last night. His 28 points led the Dawgs over Utah State in the first round of the tournament, and his double jab step, rise and shoot three late in the game was the nail in the Aggies' coffin. Jamaal Williams had a big game, too, providing needed scoring early in the game when the Huskies started very, very slow. The Dawgs had balanced outside shooting, and......

If there's anything more inevitable than death, taxes, and indictments during the second term of a presidential administration, it's sports figures making ignorant statements about race. This confounds us--athletes and coaches toil in an unusually integrated workplace, yet, when it comes to race, they say such stupid things. At a news conference yesterday, (watch it here) Air Force Academy head football coach Fisher DeBerry (the academy's all-time winningest coach, and highest-paid employee) attributed Saturday's blowout......

The National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NAMBLA, is the oversight body for college sports. Run by college presidents, it tries to ensure the integrity of the student/athlete experience. Towards this end, it has instituted many stupid rules. For example: say you are a college football player, and Seattlest is a college coach. If we see you on the side of the road with your car out of gas, we couldn't give you a ride to......

Not to go all Clifford Geertz on you people, but the way a culture plays sports is often a reflection of the culture itself. Take the last appearance of a great sports hero before his retirement. This is done far differently in Japan than here. Last year, Edgar Martinez’ last at-bat was in a meaningless game against a mediocre pitcher. No ceremony attended this moment, and Edgar ended his career by grounding into a double......