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While local TV news teams are already struggling with embarrassing quips about the Seahawks signing of TJ Houshmandzadeh, the former Oregon State Beaver is a physical departure from a core of receivers whose collective toughness has been more reflective in recent years of a rickety china set than a professional football team.

Evidently, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Because his son's teams are geometrically parallel on the plane of defensive craptacularosity.

The Pac-10 media pre-season football poll is out--saw it first on the Husky football wonderland that is Bob Condotta's blog--and the Huskies are ninth. USC is a unanimous pick for first. Only Stanford will suck worse than the Huskies, according to the fourth estate.

More snow--today's games are postponed. they'll play a doubleheader on Sunday, and try to make the third game up during an off day later in the season.

Spring practice is underway (the Huskies start April 9), so here's an early look at the Pac-10 in 2007

FSN mikes picked up an Oregon State fan expressing his opinion of Ryan Appleby early in the Huskies' dreadful 75-63 loss.
After watching the game, and the performance of Appleby and the other Washington guards (combined, Appleby, Dentmon and Oliver shot 5-21 and had 11 turnovers, 14 fouls, only 1 steal and only 7 assists), we were yelling something a little more profane. Barring a Pac-10 tourney miracle, the Dawgs are headed for their first NIT bid since '97.

CASTING CALL: Local director Garrett Bennett is looking for extras to cast in his independent film The Spy & the Sparrow.

We have had our issues with Ryan Appleby this season. The curly haired guard can seemingly do one thing on the court, hit three pointers. This season he has been struggling to do that, making him essentially useless.

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.

Yeah, LSU went to the Final Four last year, and yeah, they've been ranked as high as #5, and yeah, they have maybe the country's best player in Glen "Big Baby" Davis, but....

Search and Rescue in southern Oregon has located the body of James Kim. From the Oregon State Police website:

As has been pointed out in the local media, in the same old boring and un-imaginative way (Ugh, we don't even know what this guy was trying to say), Saturday is the annual cross state match-up between Washington and Washington State.

On the last day of September, the Huskies beat Arizona for their third consecutive victory, and the Seahawks were in Chicago, feeling pretty good about inaugurating October against the Bears. Sure, Shaun Alexander was out, but their potent four-receiver attack had rolled over the Giants.

College baseball is dominated by teams in sunny states, for good reason. It's played from January to June. Not many guys clamor to spend four Marches playing ball in cold, rainy Oregon and Washington. So recruiting top talent is very hard. The weather, we'd have thought, provides an insurmountable obstacle to winning a college baseball championship. Evidently that's not the case.

Some minor Washington football tidbits this morning:

Basketball has been good to Seattlest recently. It provided the impetus for a weekend trip down I-5, where we watched the Dawgs obliterate Oregon State, surprised ourselves by spending only $50 at Powell’s, and had a fantastic dim-sum brunch.

Both the Dawg hoop men and Dawg hoop women are a few Pac-10 wins away from securing berths in the NCAA tournament. For the men, it would be their third trip in a row to the Big Dance, a record for the men's program. For the women, it would be their first NCAA tourney since 2003.

Seattlest wants to thank the Seattle Times for bringing this item to our attention. University of Washington women score a dubious "win" over Washington State in the latest Playboy "Girls of the Pac-10" issue: 7 UW women appear to 6 Washington State women. (Note that Seattlest doesn't call them girls, which, if they're naked, sounds vaguely creepy to our ears.) It's a bit of a stretch, since there's a group UW photo.

If you were in Corvallis, Oregon, right now, and I know you wish you were, you would probably be talking Beaver Baseball. The Oregon State University Baseball team is in the College World Series.

Evidently, the Husky football team's 1-10 season caused many fans to cancel their season tickets. So for the first time in Seattlest's memory (which stretches back to the Michael Jackson days), the Huskies are offering reserved ticket game plans.

With the number three overall pick in the annual Major League Baseball draft, the Mariners selected Jeff Clement, a catcher from USC.

March Madness isn't just the NCAA men's tournament, though Seattlest knows they've trademarked the name. At the risk of a lawsuit, we apply it to the hundreds of loser-out basketball tournaments taking place all over the country, from the South Dakota state "A" championship to the public school championships in New York City. Local teams began tournament life last weekend with the Pac-10 Women's basketball tournament and the State 3A Boys and Girls Tournaments.

On Thursday against Oregon, the Huskies shot poorly, played bad defense, and got out-rebounded. They were lauded as "gutsy" by John Levesque of the P-I and "indomitable" by Blaine Newnham of the Times.

Seattlest never thought it would say this, but here goes: Thank you, Jeff Cirillo.