In April we asked our Bay Area sports correspondent Bob Arkansas to preview the AL West, now he's back to give his thought on Sunday's NFC Showdown. Greetings my soggy friends in the Northwest Province! The last time I wrote something for the Seattlest it was a season preview for the Mariners and pretty much every prediction that I made was wrong. These brilliant insights included the Mariners losing more games than they'd win, finishing......

A week ago a helpful neighbor of Seattlest's reported the fact that our car hadn't moved in ten months to the city. Chalk on the tires, then a ticket and then an impound notice appeared in quick succession. Fair enough. However, the car hadn't moved since 2006 partly because we despise the automobile and all of the congestion, traffic and earthly ruination it stands for, and partly because it wouldn't start. At 11:59 on Sunday......

This is Mariner pitcher Mark Lowe. In April, while you were living in the same city you are now, working the same job, Lowe was in Lancaster, California, pitching for the Inland Empire 66ers of the California League, against such baseball powerhouses as the Modesto Nuts. After 13 games, he moved up to AA San Antonio. After 11 games there, he moved to the bigs. That's like getting promoted from Executive Assistant to the Director......

For those of you that still harbor the grudge that science is boring and painfully complex, Seattlest would like to introduce you to the buckyball. Not only is this little sucker given a name that is impossibly irresistable, it is also potentially one of the more important scientific discoveries of the past 20 years (yielding a Nobel prize for its co-discoverers in 1985). Oh fine, back to the name: nature is apparently teeming with......