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You know times are tough when it affects the long-standing tradition of collegiate football. Word is, the gritty football rivalry between Washington and Washington State may take their annual Apple Cup football game to Seattle's Qwest Field. With the anticipated UW lay-offs and WSU cutting out the freshmen, it's no wonder why they are in talks to move the game, as it will allow the schools to split the millions of dollars generated from beer sales the game.

A Hitler mashup about the Apple Cup made it onto the P-I's Big Blog the other day, and Managing Editor David McCumber has ordered it taken down posthaste: "I think we goofed in this instance." Hitler isn't funny, McCumber says.

The Seahawks lost 20-17 yesterday to the Redskins and Seattlest concurs with head coach Mike Holmgren's sentiment. He began the post-game presser simply: "Questions?" The Hawks are now 2-9 and the season is over, blah blah blah.

Ready For The Apple Cup by DownWithPants

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity to win a college football game, would you capture it, or just let it slip?

Ah, football. We love it. It’s easily our favorite sport to watch as it gets our usual docile selves all fired up and yelling at the television every week. Basketball, even with its fast pace and high scoring, is a bore. And baseball? Baseball is almost as fun to watch as golf or the Lifetime channel. But for all of football’s glory, there remains its biggest upset. Which is that it’s one of those high-testosterone...

Other than the Apple Cup, Garfield High vs. Franklin High is the best sports rivalry this area has to offer.

Sometimes you earn a win, and sometimes the other team gives you one. Here are the all-time screw-ups by opponents that helped Seattle teams win big games.

10. Mariners vs Yankees (August 22): The Yankees kept taking the lead and the Mariners kept coming back. In the ninth, with the score tied 5-5, A-Rod came up with a clutch bases loaded strike out. Later that inning Adrian Beltre won the game on a walk off home run.

Even before we got drunk during last night's game, we felt like we were in some substance-induced hysteria. Just a weird, weird game.

We are wrong a lot, and on Saturday evening it was a great feeling to have this fact proven once again.

As has been pointed out in the local media, in the same old boring and un-imaginative way (Ugh, we don't even know what this guy was trying to say), Saturday is the annual cross state match-up between Washington and Washington State.

Fall? No. College football season. We hate it. Specifically, we hate the Cougar/Husky rivalry. Why? Because we don't care. We went to a microscopic liberal arts college in the midwest. But we hear about it anyway. It's easier to avoid Packer-themed jibber-jabber in the shadow of Green Bay than it is to avoid Dawgs and Cougs exchanging antique insults and warmed-over jokes originally told about more interesting teams. We're sick of mass emails sent to...

Apple Cup week in Seattle means one thing: really crappy weather (rimshot...crickets).

The Husky football team, helped by a Hail Mary touchdown pass to end the second half, became the first state school to win a Pac-10 game this season, beating Arizona 38-14. The Dawgs host the Apple Cup next Saturday.

Q: Why was there a Washington State Cougars flag flying above the Space Needle yesterday? And a Husky flag today?

It’s not the best time to be a Seattle sports fan right now. Sure the Sonics were able to re-sign Vladimir Radmanovic for the upcoming season. However, we are a bit worried that he turned down six years $42 million in order to be an un-restricted free agent at the end of next season, but right now we will take what we can get.

The intensity of the "Basketball Apple Cup" never matches that of its gridiron counterpart, but Washington State's excruciating offensive style made Sunday's version unbearable.