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University of Washington’s cross country teams head down to Terre Haute, Indiana this weekend for the NCAA National Division I Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Championship races, which take place on Monday morning. Should be interesting, it’s no big deal--the women are only returning as defending National Champions since they clinched the very first NCAA Championship in program history last year.

The Bad: The Seahawks. About a month ago, the Cardinals were really bad houseguests at Qwest Field. They ate all our food, broke a lamp, and left a 27-3 defeat in our toilet. Sunday in Arizona, the Hawks looked for a minute like they just might return the favor. We shed hair in the bathtub, played loud music and grabbed a 14-0 lead.

Sunday afternoon felt a bit like that October day in 1995 when the Cleveland Indians snuffed out the Mariners “Refuse to Lose” fairy tale run. Remember little Joey Cora weeping in the dugout after the game, being consoled by then-Mariner Alex Rodriguez? After the final whistle, we felt a lot like that, except we were in a half-empty bar (not a dugout), being consoled by a half-empty beer (not a prick).

When they’re not doing that, presumably they’re making out with mirrors or enjoying the smell of their own farts. Hell, even a columnist for The Oregonian did a Top 10 list of why Duck fans suck. (We can only imagine how bad our hubris would have to be for Steve Kelley or Art Thiel to ever turn on us.)

Please forgive Seattlest for the horrible attempt at a punny play on words headline, but we spent most of Thursday watching a spaceship balloon drift across Denver. So now our brain is dead.

If you missed any of this weekend’s football action, certainly the resulting sonic booms from Montlake and SoDo caused a noticeable vibration in the rock you’re living under.

Seattlest had barely dried our tears from last weekend’s Huskies and Seahawks losses when we learned Wednesday that The Sporting News ranked Seattle an abysmal 52nd place on its 2009 list of Best Sports Cities.

To be a Seattle sports fan this weekend was to rediscover that we indeed had a functioning heart.

This weekend the Seattle sports world parachutes into a Midwestern hot pocket as footballers Sounders FC, Huskies, and Seahawks play within about 300 miles of each other in Indiana and Ohio. Their respective opponents are tough. We're hoping at least two, if not all three squads win, because we think imbibing is much more fun in victory than in defeat.

Coach Steve Sarkisian is a micromanager. For good and bad. Good: He was directly involved in many of the offensive run-throughs. This seems like a bright idea considering he's the mastermind of an offense that's brand-new to Husky players. Bad: He hectored a ball boy for putting balls in the wrong place. Can't someone else be supervising the student managers?

The University of Washington softball team, led by known Canadian Danielle Lawrie, will face the perennial NCAA Champions in everything University of Florida Gators in a best two-out-of-three series starting tonight. Yesterday the Huskies beat Georgia on the second try, and the Gators beat Alabama on a walk off grand slam, holy crap.

We've been complaining a lot about the local press lately, so here's a kudo. Congrats to Seattle Times reporters Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry for their prestigious Michael Kelly Award, bestowed for their series exposing the criminal histories of members of the Rose Bowl-winning U-Dub football team. The judges were impressed by the reporters' "commitment to truth" despite the obvious risk that dinging the Huskies would piss off readers, alienate advertisers and, yea, besmirch the Times' reputation. For its gutsy stand in support of the series, the Times gets a boost to its cred at a precarious time.

Seattlest's new roving correspondent Roger van Oosten just sent us this report from the Husky sidelines.

Our Staples Center Bureau chief, Ryan, was not amused with the Huskies 75-65 loss to Arizona State on Friday night.

Following the Huskies win on Saturday, we declared that all we wanted next was an injury free Pac 10 Tournament.

Here with a preview of tonight's Washington vs. Seattle University game is Seattlest's SU Winter Sports Correspondent Cody Goins.

Earlier in the week Seattlest/Sports NW Seth had some actual analysis regarding tonight’s big Husky game against Arizona State.

Amazing but true fact: the last time the University of Washington men's basketball team finished first in their league, they did it wearing satin shorts.

We split our Husky season tickets with friends, and before the season we picked Saturday’s UCLA game, and they got tonight’s USC contest.

Yesterday the University of Washington introduced their new defensive coordinator/assistant coach former USC coordinator Nick Holt.

Tonight when the Huskies play the Kansas Jayhawks in Kansas City, it will mark the first time they have taken the court against a defending National Champion since February 5, 1998, when they lost 112-81 to Arizona.

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?

Back in April when our Husky tickets arrived in the mail, we carefully removed the UCLA ones and placed them in a safe place. The return of Rick Neuheisel was to be the game of the year, and we were looking to take out some program-in-free-fall frustration on Slick Rick.

Way back in May, we wrote about The University of Washington looking for a new school anthem. We are pleased to report the waiting is over for our purple and gold brethren: an anthem has been chosen. The song "Rise Up With Pride for Washington" was penned by UW senior, Catherine Henderson. The anthem debuted last Friday at a UW fundraising gala, but for those of us who aren't big UW donors the song will be introduced to the purple public at the UW vs. ASU football game on November 8th. Since no one will be going to Husky games in November in hopes of seeing a Husky win, we might as well all go to hear the new tune. You gotta take little victories and enjoyments in a season like this.

In the 11th grade, we busted our Mom's lava lamp playing soccer in the house. (Yeah, she had a lava lamp. Whatever.) Our seemed-like-a-good-idea solution was to vacuum the two quarts of red oily goo with the family's shiny new Electrolux. About a week later, an odd smell started emanating from the storage closet where the vacuum was kept and we were grounded for two weeks. On Day 9 of the Great Grounding, we had a chance to see Lollapalooza. We begged to get a reprieve. We pleaded. We begged some more. We succeeded. That night we rocked out with Les Claypool and then didn't bother coming home until noon the next day, when there were more groundings.

We're going to drop some locals-only wisdom on you, which Seattle natives rarely if ever do sober...so listen up.

It seemed like every other person we passed had a maroon "Oklahoma" t-shirt tucked into their shorts and a smug air about their head region when we were walking around campus before the UW game on Saturday. By our reckoning (UCLA beat Tennessee, BYU beat UCLA, Washington was a terrible call away from taking BYU to overtime) OU were maybe going to get more of a game than they expected. And then they played the game and, it hardly seems possible, the smugness intensified around the heads of the Oklahoma faithful. Campus still looks beautiful, though. Sprizee took this shot of the sun setting on it and left it in the Seattle Flickr Pool for our enjoyment.

Those who can't wait for Husky basketball season, so they can heckle Oregon State, might want to tune in to tonight’s Democratic Convention. The Beaver’s new men’s basketball coach, Craig Robinson, will be taking the stage to address those gathered in Denver.

UW grad Hope Solo held the high-powered Brazilian offense scoreless in the Beijing Olympics gold medal soccer game and led the US squad to its third gold medal in four tries. The evenly-matched contest was scoreless at the end of regulation, with Carli Lloyd putting the Americans ahead 1-0 in the first extra time period and giving the US the lead for good with a crossing shot from the edge of the box. Gig Harbor's Stephanie (Lopez) Cox also featured on the gold-medal winning squad.