With one team fighting to stay in the playoffs, one team guaranteeing a spot in the postseason, and one team leaving us wondering how they'll even make it through this season, it was an up-and-down weekend in Seattle sports. more ›

It was a good weekend to be a Seattle sports fan as the Sounders, Seahawks, and Huskies all won over the weekend. more ›

Whether on the water, on the court, on the diamond, or on the pitch, Seattle sports had a wild and generally victorious weekend. more ›

A quick look back at the wild weekend in Seattle sports. And what a week it was! more ›

Several Seattle sports teams suffered defeats over the weekend, but one squad showed that we know what winning streaks look like, too. more ›

Seattle's sports teams had a wild ride this weekend. Catch up on everything you may have missed, or you'll be sorely out of the loop when everyone else at work is talking stats. more ›

The Sounders play the Timbers tonight! It's such a big deal that the Wall Street Journal covered it, presenting a detailed article (in the sports section! the WSJ has a sports section?) not about the merits of the players but about the hippieness of the fans. The article finds a 15-year-old Sounders fan willing to call all Portlanders "meth-headed" and "jobless," a Seattleite willing to say Mac & Jack's is better than Deschutes, and a Portland grad student worried that "Seattle has Republicans." The article is such an amazing clusterfuck of stereotypes, uglier than six players on the ball at the same time, that it's hard to believe it came from the WSJ and not the Onion. Based in part on the article, we came up with our own (not-very-skill-related) list of characteristics for judging the teams. Portland scored a lot of points, but Seattle eked by on the shoulders of one tall bald man. Is it a preview of tomorrow evening? Let's hope so. more ›

Seattle Weekly is knocking down the Timbers for the MLS expansion team's away jerseys, which are as green as the pine trees that make Seattle the Emerald City. Granted, Portland has these same damn trees—they're on the Oregon license plate, even—but apparently having an older MLS team (if not an older city, nor a city with a green flag) somehow makes us more entitled to the color. It is a fair point that a Seattle-based company (Alaska Airlines, which has some sweet fares to Mexico at the moment) has its logo splashed all over the Portland team's jersey, but that's not exactly the Timbers' fault, and what can you expect from a company that's not even located in its namesake state? Not every company-city combo can be as tight as Microsoft-Seattle...er, Redmond. more ›

Weekend One of March Madness is over, and already our bracket is gone, murdered by a fusillade of upsets. But we don’t care! The Huskies are on their way to Syracuse, NY and the Sweet 16, having barreled Prius-style through the New Mexico Lobos on Saturday, 82-64. more ›

The NCAA Selection Committee, who'll pick the 65-team bracket Sunday, can be a bitch if they're not sufficiently impressed, kind of like the girl in biology class who snubbed us for that taller upperclassman before Sadie Hawkins. (We're not still bitter.) The good news is the Huskies took a step towards an invitation last night, coming from behind to beat Oregon State 59-52 in the quarterfinals of the Pac-10 Tournament. more ›

Woodland Park zookeepers tossed soccer balls to some of their charges last Wednesday to commemorate the first round of the MLS Cup Playoff Western Conference Semifinals, which ended, of course, in a lame tie. The Sounders better win Sunday or AMY GET MAD!! Regardless, check out the 15-year-old, 850-pound grizzly brothers, Keema and Denali, demolishing the hapless balls while five-month-old snow leopard cubs Gobi and Batu and the zoo’s Humboldt penguins take a more friendly, frisky approach. The soccer balls are part of the zoo’s animal enrichment program which aims to promote natural animal behavior and keep the animals mentally stimulated. more ›

More than 100 Sounders fans are packed into a downtown D.C. pub this afternoon, sucking down liquid courage in advance of their foray into enemy territory for tonight's U.S. Open Cup final against D.C. United. more ›

The M's win 4-3 in the bottom of the ninth on Ichiro's two-out walk-off single -- Ich's 148th hit of the season, which puts him exactly at the pace of his record-setting 262-hit season in 2004. Washburn allowed just 1 run in 7 IP in what may have been his last start as a Mariner, but didn't get the win due to a bullpen collapse. M's 52-48, 7.5 GB. Box score. Next game Weds. vs. TOR, 1:40 p.m.; Rowland-Smith vs. Halladay. more ›

In every non-playoffs sports season, you can date the moment when your team's hopes collapsed. For the last place 2008 Mariners, it was approximately mid-April. This year's Mariners lasted far longer in the playoff hunt. Nevertheless, July 24-26 was their undoing. more ›

All the signs were there--a functional transit system, government endorsement of the weedbud, and all that damn bicycling--but the evidence is incontrovertible now that Portland has banished its baseball team in favor of a pro soccer franchise. more ›

The real estate sales report from Northwest MLS says median home prices are up 4.4 percent across the area, with King County coming in at just over $363K. Bargain homes are selling, but condos are still taking a beating. The main thing is that people are out making offers on houses, so realtors have a reason to change out of their pajamas--pending sales (offers made and accepted) are up, though a significant portion of those fail in the financing round. The Seattle Bubble has a good media-coverage round-up, and notes with some satisfaction that the rah-rah contingent is getting less play this time around. more ›

No doubting it: The Seattle Mariners are legitimate pennant contenders. The Seattle Mariners are legitimate pennant contenders. THE SEATTLE MARINERS ARE LEGITIMATE PENNANT CONTENDERS!!! Sorry, we like writing that so much we had to do it thrice. more ›

Sounders striker Nate Jaqua, the reigning MLS player of the week, stands accused of rape, according to the Courthouse News Service. more ›

M's Serve Baseball's Best Team; Lose Beltre: The Mariners started their road trip with a surprising 2-1 series win over the Dodgers, who have baseball's best record. The highlight was Felix Hernandez's nine-K performance on Saturday night, with homers by Griffey and Branyan providing the offense. Bad news came that night as well: Adrian Beltre will miss 6-8 weeks, he's getting surgery to remove painful bone spurs in his shoulder. more ›

GODDAMN STRAIGHT! Do you think the fans come out to see goals? NO! They want to see defenders cowardly hammering the ball deep into the stands! And then, more likely that not, collapsing as if they have suffered an Endy-Chavez-like knee injury. Kasey Keller is such a defense-oriented hard-ass, he can't even enjoy his own teammate's goal. more ›

A terrific individual play saved the Sounders from a loss. Fredy Montero stole the ball from a defender in the corner, dribbled toward goal, and unleashed a game-tying shot. It was Montero's 7th goal of the year. The Red Bulls goal came on another mind-boggling defensive lapse, a clearance ricocheted off a Sounder right to a Red Bulls striker. Sounders 5-3-7, 22 pts., 8 pts. behind 1st place Houston. Match report. Next game Sunday vs. Colorado. more ›

The fastest-paced and most entertaining game of the season ends in a tie, after the Sounders cough up a late two-goal lead. The game featured 14 shots on goal, and some beautiful and creative passing. Credit DC United keeper (and former Portland Timber) Josh Wicks, who three times saved one-on-one opportunities by Sounder players. Sounders 5-3-5, 3rd place, 7 pts. back. Match report. Next game Saturday @ NY Red Bulls. more ›

NOT A CELL PHONE PROVIDER: Fast on the heels of Maximus Minimus, Marination Mobile makes its debut today in Fremont. The Hawaiian-Korean taco truck serves a menu of "tacos and sliders, featuring ingredients such as kalbi beef, spicy pork, miso-ginger chicken, kalua pork, and tofu...marinated in signature sauces. There is also a kimchi fried rice bowl, kimchi quesadilla, and SPAM musubi. Items run from $2-$5." Marination plans to eventually operate seven days a week, open for lunch and dinner till 2 a.m. The weekly schedule is currently as follows, but be sure to watch for updates at their website and on teh Twitter: Monday: SODO, Seattle Design Guild (1701 First Ave); Wednesday: Fremont, Soundspeed Scooters (132 N. Canal St); Thursday: Capitol Hill, Broadway Shell (1500 Broadway @ Pike); Friday: Capitol Hill, Broadway Shell; Saturday: Capitol Hill, Broadway Shell; Sunday: Ballard, Cheka-Looka Surf Shop (6300 Seaview Ave. NW). 12 p.m.-2 p.m. // Soundspeed Scooters // 132 N. Canal St // $2-5 more ›

Like Shaun Alexander, Richie Sexson, and Barack Obama before him, Montero is learning how quickly Seattle cheers can turn to boos, invective, and angry, semi-anonymous blog comments. more ›

The Sounders dominated from minute one in front of another raucous crowd. Ljungberg scored just before half after gaining possession of a long ball to Montero from James Riley. Montero got his own goal off a corner in the the 59th. Montero's failure to clear a ball from danger cost Seattle a goal nine minutes later, but they held San Jose off, denying the Earthquakes possession in the late minutes like they were a high school team. Match report. Next game Weds. vs. DC United, 7:30 p.m. (that's 30 minutes earlier than what it'll say on your ticket; time change is so ESPN2 can televise the game.) more ›

Sounders FC tries to break a two-game winless streak when "San Jose" comes to town Saturday night. Here's a little primer about our opponent whatever happens to pop into our heads. more ›

This should explain why Drew Carey bought a soccer team in Seattle. more ›

Sounders FC (now with 100 percent less accused rapists!) faces undefeated Chivas USA Saturday night in Carson, CA. If the Sounders win, they will retake first place in the MLS Western Conference. They will also strike a blow for all that is good in the world, by taking out a team filled with and supported by TRAITORS! more ›

Our newest sportsballers, Sounders FC, will play to another capacity crowd Saturday. This week's opponent? The Kansas City Wizards. Here's a little bit about them. more ›

Fredy Montero, the Sounders FC forward who won Seattle's affections last month for helping our new MLS team stay undefeated for our first two games, is probably going to be under formal investigation for an alleged sexual assault and consequent stalking incident involving a 23-year-old woman on the Eastside. Though the Bellevue Police Department won't name names about the subject of their investigations until they've filed charges, SeattlePI.com did get a confirmation that the woman called BPD with her allegations about Montero. Yikes--this one came out of the blue! The Sounders say they fully expect the player to be on the field with the team for this weekend's next week's game. more ›