Seahawks Pro-Bowl MLB Lofa Tatupu pled guilty today to a May 10 DUI charge and was sentenced to one day in jail by Kirkland Municipal Court Judge Michael Lambo. Tatupu was charged after speeding and driving erratically in a Hyundai after a late night on the Kirkland night club circuit. Two hours after his arrest, Tatupu's blood alcohol level tested at 0.155 and 0.158, nearly twice the legal limit. Tatupu will also pay $1,255 in......

The Seattle Seahawks announced this morning the signing of Northwest native and starting cornerback Marcus Trufant. The Wilson High (Tacoma) and Washington State University alum inked a long-term deal last night, according to the Seahawks, for $50.2 million over six years. Trufant was previously designated as the Seahawks' franchise player, which would have resulted in a one-year $9.5 million salary, but luckily a long-term deal was locked up. Even more impressive is Trufant's ability to......

We've been reading and rereading Hawks/Packers stuff all week. Here the few things we think are important about Saturday's game: 1) The Hawks' Patrick Kerney made the Pro Bowl this year for terrorizing quarterbacks, but he may not be much of a factor in this game. The Packers gave up the fewest sacks of any NFL team--not because they have a terrific offensive line, but because they designed their offense that way. Brett Favre often......

10 out of 10 Pro Bowl voters agree--the Seahawks have more talent on defense than on offense. From 2002-2004, the Hawks didn't send a single defense-er to the Pro Bowl. In 2005, rookie linebacker Lofa Tatupu went. Last year, Julian Peterson joined him. But this year, fully 36.36% of the Hawks' starting defense are Pro Bowl starters, as Patrick Kerney and Marcus Trufant will travel to Hawaii as well. We're happiest about Trufant, a Tacoma......

When an undercover Marion County, Florida, sheriff told former Seahawks punter Rick Tuten yesterday that she had two stolen TVs to sell him, Tuten had this classic reply: "I don't know nothin' about nothin'." Can someone get this guy into a Humphrey Bogart movie? Anyway, then the fun started:[Tuten] agreed to purchase the TV’s for $600. The TV’s, new and still in the original boxes, had a total value of $1,500. The TV’s were delivered......

Editor Dan loves you, Seattle. City, people, land, water and professional sports franchises; all of it. However, he cannot back you on the issue of the Seattle Seahawks vs. the Chicago Bears. If you're looking for calming words of compassion or hilarious Seahawks histrionics Seattlest will take care of you there, too, but one of us grew up with a Bears helmet painted on our neighbor's garage door and didn't appear in a photograph......

--The "War on Christmas" is a blogger's best friend. --Bill O'Reilly is also a blogger's best friend. --Weren't we supposed to be a smart city, or something? What happened to all that? --Pot may be the new #1 cash crop in the U.S., but here in the Northwest ever green holiday materials have got to take over, at least for the season. --"I want it! You aren't helping me find something I want. You......

The Pro Football Hall of Fame released a list of 111 preliminary contenders for election in 2006, and they left off newly-eligible Cortez Kennedy. That's Cortez Kennedy who went to 8 Pro Bowls, was on the NFL's All-Decade team of the 90's, and won the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year award in 1992. That's Cortez Kennedy who we idolized and who was basically the only good player the Seahawks had in the 90s.......

The 2006 Seahawks schedule was released this morning. They open at Detroit, and have two home Monday night games-- vs. Oakland on November 6th, and vs. Green Bay on Nov. 27th. A few Hawks are making international waves. DE Bryce Fisher, a graduate of the Air Force Academy, is on a USO tour. Here he is in Afghanistan. Some practice squad guys are doing well in NFL Europe. QB Gilbran Hamdan was named offensive player......

Last week the Minnesota Vikings shanghaied Pro Bowl guard Steve Hutchinson from the Seahawks by including a "poison pill" in his contract--a provision specifying that Hutchinson had to be the top-earning offensive lineman on the team; a provision the Seahawks couldn't match. We wondered how ridiculous these clauses could get. And the Seahawks have answered that question. In their offer to Vikings' receiver Nate Burleson, they included a clause that would make the contract guaranteed......

Sounding more like a person leaving an unsatifying relationship than a football player joining a new team, former Seahawks DE Chike Okeafor specified why he chose to sign with the Arizona Cardinals in a press conference quoted in Thursday's P-I. "Over there (in Seattle) on a day-to-day basis I felt alone, not surrounded by enough people that thought like me, felt like me, played like me on a day-to-day basis and love the game......