This post is brought to you by, we believe, Seattlest's lone Hillary supporter or, as we like to refer to ourself, Hillpporter. If you travel around the tubes today, you might see all manner of photos of Hillary Clinton looking very happy, surrounded by oodles of confetti. That's because, last night, Hillary brought it, winning the primaries in Texas, Ohio, and Rhode Island. We kind of wanted to go watch the returns with all......

Forbes Magazine must have gotten tired of making the same "Richest People in the World" list, because the magazine has moved on to ranking the "Nation's Most Sinful Cities." In order to do so, Forbes came up with measurable methods to rank the proclivity for each of the seven deadly sins in America's urban populations. (For example to measure the sin of "wrath" the magazine used murder rates for cities.) Of course, you're curious, just......

When you allow a team to reach the century mark in the 3rd quarter, you aren't going to win a lot of games. Unless you're the 1979-80 San Antonio Spurs. The Sonics did enough on offense to win tonight: Eight guys scored in double figures, led by Delonte West's 17. But on defense...oy. Stromile Swift (the one Swift in the NBA who doesn't bring shame on his surname) put 24 on the Sonics, with putbacks,......

Clay Bennett and Greg Nickels talked today, and the upshot is that--a year and a day after buying the team, and only a few months after saying he was moving--Bennett wants to reopen talks about staying in Key Arena. So says Jim Brunner of the Seattle Times. KEVIN DURANT WE LOVE YOU! David Stern has seemed to cool on the idea of the Sonics moving, maybe the NBA doesn't want the Western Conference to be......

One day in the early 90s, then-Husky basketball coach Lynn Nance said to himself, "You know, I'm pretty happy with Prentiss Perkins and Bryant Boston at guard," and declined to offer a scholarship to a young Canadian and UW fan named Steve Nash. And a damn good thing, too. Nash, as we all saw Sunday afternoon, will do anything to stay off the court in crunchtime, including spontaneous hemophilia. Gutless. Just gutless. The 92-93 Huskies......

Nick Collison gets a few double-doubles and suddenly your sports section is filled with articles like "Collison excelling front and center". Now, since we are ignoring the Sonics, we haven't actually seen this new, improved Nick Collison, but we're willing to bet that his production has more to do with playing time than with any Great Leap Forward. We've long called this phenomenon of a crummy player accumulating impressive stats "The Christian Laettner Theory." Remember......

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......

MLB.com released its 2006 Top 50 Prospects Poll today. It's based on voting by "23 members of the scouting community," and these are 23 folks who don't think much of the Everett Aquasox, Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, San Antonio Missions, or any other Seattle Mariner farm club. Out of the 50 prospects selected, not a single one is property of our Mariners. What do you people do all day??? On the bright side, there's one prospect......

Only a couple minutes into Duma, the latest film from Carroll Ballard, king of mature-minded animal flicks (The Black Stallion, Fly Away Home), one thing becomes abundantly clear: Baby cheetahs are really, really f-ing cute. Their fur is all mottled and super fluffy. Rather than meowing, they make a little bird-like peep. We totally want one. But there are more reasons to catch Duma---held over at the Northwest Film Forum for another two weekends of......

There is no doubt that the Seattle Storm's Lauren Jackson is among the top five female basketball players of all-time. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. This hero of the hardwood, this Cadillac of the court, was benched for the fourth quarter of last night's loss against Houston. This is the WNBA equivalent of yanking Allen Iverson--pinch hitting for Manny Ramirez--subbing out Mia......

Sonics' forward Rashard Lewis can't run on his injured toe, and will not play in Game Six of the Sonics' Western Conference semifinals series tonight, the AP reports. The Sonics, down 3-2 to San Antonio in the seven game series, must win tonight's game. It's at Key Arena at 7:30, and will be televised on Fox Sports NW and ESPN.......

With a surprisingly easy 101-89 win last night over San Antonio, the Sonics tied the Western Conference semifinals at 2-2. Coach Nate McMillan started three guards, and the strategy worked. Not only did the three (Ray Allen, Antonio Daniels and Luke Ridnour) combine for 71 points, but their speed on defense forced 20 Spurs turnovers. Game 5 will be in San Antonio on Tuesday night at 6:30 PDT. The game will be televised on......

In the view of Sonics players, excellent three-point-shooting is the team's best chance to beat heavily-favored San Antonio in their best-of-seven Western Conference Semifinal playoff series. In game one, however, two of their top marksmen, Ray Allen and Vladimir Radmanovic sprained their ankles. Had the Sonics won, it might have been called a Pyrrhic victory. Instead, not only was their offense crippled, but they suffered a humiliating 22-point loss. Not so much a Pyrrhic victory......