Geraldine Ferraro, who claims that a black guy named Barack Obama has an advantage in running for president in America, something pretty similar to what she said about Jesse Jackson in 1988, was reluctantly shit-canned by the Clinton campaign. Presumably for not being negative enough. Luckily for us, Ferraro is a huge Husky basketball fan and agreed to share her thoughts on UDub's opening round loss 84-81 loss to Cal in the Pac Ten Tournament.......

As we wrote earlier, the Huskies play Cal-Berkeley tonight in the first round of the Pac Ten Tournament. They'll be doing it without an injured Jon Brockman, seen by many as the team's best player. However, is he any good? Dusty (Yes): Brockman owned Kevin Love at Hec-Ed, and if you say “but Artem Wallace guarded him” then maybe HE should be conference player of the year. AR-TEM! AR-TEM! AR-TEM.…MVP! MVP! MVP! I’m not......

Today Seattlest welcomes our new sports correspondent to the fold. Drew Milam is a longtime Seattle resident who recently returned to the Emerald City after some time in the Bay Area, and claims to be super tight with fellow Santa Clara alum Steve Nash, Brandi Chastain and NFL referee Mike Carey. No word on if he got the gig because he is a Hillary supporter (pleasing Editor Kim) and a Garfield alum (pleasing Seattlest David).......

When last we checked in with Texas A&M, their fans were sending us insane emails after we wrote about that whole Seahawks/12th man dispute. (Texas A&M has a 12th man tradition too, they said the Hawks were infringing on it). Our favorite such email concluded thusly: "Keep your latte sippin, tree huggin, PETA lovin, flannel shirt, leg humping asses off our traditions." It's funny because it's true. Honestly, what is it with our asses here......

So. The Huskies. The team that's our city's best chance at a 2007 championship trophy, and they can't even beat the Cougs. Historical fact: No team has ever lost to Washington State University and gone on to win the championship of anything. But here's the good news: because the Huskies are in the nation's best conference, they have six more games against ranked teams, and three against teams ranked in the top 10 (Oregon, Pittsburgh......

After the Huskies' played the last five minutes of last night's game [Times, P-I, S.F. Chronicle] as if they'd been inhabited by the spirit of Mike Jensen, we got a little chippy with our Kenmore dryer and kicked the inanimate-ing shit out of it. The Dawgs are a young team, and psychological meltdowns happen. We're not too worried about the team, they actually played terrific for 35 minutes, especially the first half when they stayed......

When Snohomish High student Brett Karch nearly got his leg blown off firing the traditional pre-football-game cannon, he probably expected a card, maybe some flowers...Not so much:According to Karch's medical records, security guards notified police after Karch received disturbing phone calls and visits from parents and students, some of whom threatened to "break his other leg" or worse, if he didn't keep quiet about the accident. Hospital staff had to move him to a secure......

As bad as the Dawgs looked against Gonzaga is how good they looked Wednesday night against LSU. You can read the recaps: [AP}, [P-I], [Times], [New Orleans Times-Picayune] but let us just observe: --Jon Brockman had his best game as a Husky (19 pts., 14 boards) --Spencer Hawes had "the look" before the game. He has moves that Tim Duncan didn't have his rookie year with the Spurs. The 18 -foot jumper, the pivot and......

Nate Robinson, Brandon Roy, Jamal Crawford and Spencer Hawes on one squad. Our fantasy basketball team circa 2008? No, fucking reality--if you were watching the Entertainer's Basketball Classic at the Rucker courts in the Bronx yesterday. It's a two-on-two tournament. Seattle played L.A. in the first game, going with Nate Robinson and Spencer Hawes exclusively. [Pause while we cream our pants] They won that game, then the Seattles went with Brandon Roy and Jamal Crawford......

UConn, who the UW Huskies will face tonight in an NCAA regional semifinal, is the best college basketball team in the country. According to nbadraft.net, five UConn players will be drafted in the first round of June's NBA draft--including the projected #1 pick, forward Rudy Gay. Their front line is the best in recent memory--6-9 Gay, 6-10 Josh Boone (last year's Big East defensive player of the year) and 6-11 Hilton Armstrong (this year's Big......

For the first time since maybe the 2004 tournament loss to UAB, the Husky men were beat by a more athletic team Thursday, as Oregon upset them in the first round of the Pac-10 tournament. When the Huskies seemed ready to pull away, athletic plays by Jordan Kent and Malik Hairston kept the Ducks in the game. They hassled Ryan Appleby (who, it's now clear, probably shouldn't ever handle the ball) leapt for rebounds and......

Huskies forward Brandon Roy became only the second Husky (and more importantly, the first Garfield Bulldog) to win Pac-10 Player of the Year honors, beating out Cal-Berkeley forward Leon Powe. Although Powe topped the conference in scoring and rebounding, Roy lead the Huskies down the stretch on both sides of the ball, putting up big numbers and in many games literally carrying the team to victory. Roy said of the honor, "These things are hard......