Judge Marsha Pechman will preside over the City of Seattle v. Sonics trial, scheduled to begin Monday. Since the fate of our beloved pro basketball team rests in her hands, Seattlest wanted to take a closer look at the person standing at center court. A former law faculty member at both UW and Seattle U, Judge Pechman has been described as an energetic and hard-working jurist who rose fast in the legal community. Bob......

Seth Kolloen starting covering sports for Seattlest in January 2005. Late last year he took over as editor, before leaving us to become the editor of the brand new Sports Northwest Magazine. We caught up with Seth poolside at the W Hotel to discuss the move to press row, his sports blog, and why he won’t be calling Maggie Gyllenhaal any time soon. How did you get involved with the new magazine? In one sense,......

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Few details in this report by the Seattle Times' Larry Stone, but he confirms that we'll have an MLS team in '09. Press conference on Tuesday. Says Seattlest David: "Best of all, no David Stern."......

We'd held out hope that, seeing as how the Oklahoma City-based owners of the Sonics flat out admitted they never intended to keep them here, that NBA commissioner David Stern would use his influence to throw the suckers out and find local ownership in Seattle. Looks like that isn't going to happen. Stern has given up on us. As he told reporters yesterday:Miracles can always happen, and I'm an optimist by nature, but that optimism......

You may not agree with his conservative politics, but if you like the Mariners, you owe an elaborate tip of the cap to ex-U.S. Senator Slade Gorton. Gorton, who was state Attorney General from 1969-1981, then a two-term U.S. Senator, and served on the 9/11 Commission, is almost solely responsible for the Mariners being here, and now he's agreed to help the city keep the Sonics. "We're lawyering up," deputy mayor Tim Ceis told the......

Clay Bennett and Greg Nickels talked today, and the upshot is that--a year and a day after buying the team, and only a few months after saying he was moving--Bennett wants to reopen talks about staying in Key Arena. So says Jim Brunner of the Seattle Times. KEVIN DURANT WE LOVE YOU! David Stern has seemed to cool on the idea of the Sonics moving, maybe the NBA doesn't want the Western Conference to be......

Ron Silver may have been a bad guy in TimeCop, but he had a better seat at the NBA draft than the Sonics' draft pick. Yes, with their highest draft pick since 1989, the Sonics picked a guy who was sitting in the stands. When David Stern announced the Sonics #10 overall pick, Mouhamed Sene, he added, "He's here!" And, sure enough, down came Sene out of the stands, passing actor Ron Silver as......

Either the city agrees to rebuild Key Arena by this time next month, or the Sonics will leave Seattle after their lease is up. That's the threat Sonics President Wally Walker lobbed at city politicos in a letter today. Let's see if it will have the same effect as threats like: "Play hard for all 82 games, Jerome, or we'll bench you." or "Accept our lowball contract offer, Nate--you'll never find a better one." After......

Bainbridge and #8-ranked O’Dea (the two-time defending state champs) play a winner-to-state, loser-out game tonight. The outcome will likely hinge on this: can O’Dea’s Jamelle McMillan (son of Nate) stop Bainbridge’s Steven Gray. Gray, a 6-4 junior guard, is feeling it. He scored 46 points Tuesday in a loser-out game against Sealth, with his future college coach, Gonzaga’s Mark Few, in attendance. Seattlest saw Gray in action earlier this season. He’s a streaky shooter. But......