Seahawks head coach Mike Holmgren confirmed today that starting QB Matt Hasselbeck would likely miss Sunday's game against the Green Bay Packers, due to a knee injury he picked up in last week's game. With backup QB Seneca Wallace out with yet another injury (calf), the new starting QB of your Seattle Seahawks appears destined to be Charlie Frye.......

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook by preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. With the Hawks in need of a win, this might be the best week to play the Packers. They are the only American franchise that one can buy shares of, so their fans could be a bit distracted. On to the meal. We originally found this recipe......

Central Washington plays Western at Qwest Field this Saturday, unremarkable for non-alumni except for the fact it marks the first time real teams with winning records from the state will play in Seattle this year. In seasons past, the Cascade Cup has been of one the greatest under-the-radar tailgate parties in Seattle, since both schools draw big crowds to the neutral downtown location. Recently Qwest Field’s north parking lot banned real tailgating, driving a stake......

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook by preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. Seahawks vs. Hot Pastrami on Rye Preview. Buying caraway seeds made this whole project worth it. We kept finding them close to the dill weed, and that made us smile. Oh, how we wished for an overhead page for a dill weed price check. We have simple......

Last football season we taught ourselves to cook by preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. By the playoffs we had mastered the art of cooking, and in fact delivered a eulogy at what we thought was Julia Child's funeral. This fall we are going to do it again. Our first city is New York, home of the World Champion 1969 Jets. Because they let any foreigner who wants just squeeze into......

No adult should take anything Disney publishes as serious journalism but Seattlest is a knee-jerk, Seahawks freak, so when ESPN ranked its list of Top NFL Fan Bases we were more than a little ticked to see ourselves score so unfavorably. The chronically East Coast-focused media monster apparently weighs regional desperation and images of morbidly obese cardiac patients ahead of more logical measurements like crowd noise, false start penalties and player consensus. ESPN cited......

"Willingham at Husky Photo Day" by C Syverson In the 11th grade, we busted our Mom's lava lamp playing soccer in the house. (Yeah, she had a lava lamp. Whatever.) Our seemed-like-a-good-idea solution was to vacuum the two quarts of red oily goo with the family's shiny new Electrolux. About a week later, an odd smell started emanating from the storage closet where the vacuum was kept and we were grounded for two weeks. On......

Sarah Palin and her husband Tom are members of a Seahawks fan club up in Alaska. Seth Kolloen at Sports Northwest confirmed it with the president of that club earlier today: I spoke to Tom Spindler, President of the Mat-Su (Matanuska and Susitna Valleys) Seahawkers. “She joined about two or three years ago,” Tom told me. “Her husband Todd is the one who enrolled them.” Tom told me that, in addition to gathering for Seahawks......

The chronically East Coast-focused ESPN crowned Cleveland the most tortured fan base in all of sports last year, before the collective treachery and vindictiveness of the unholy Schultz-to-Bennett takeover cost us our oldest franchise. With the advent of this past weekend's debacle in Buffalo, it’s time for Cleveland to step aside. There’s a new redheaded stepchild on the professional sporting block and its name is Seattle. Now that O’Dea High School alumni Nate Burleson,......

"Under Holmgren's Watch," by Seattlest Flickr contributor Bernzilla Seahawks Head Coach Mike Holmgren made two major announcements today on the injury front, as the team prepares for his final season at the helm. Marcus Tubbs has been waived and Bobby Engram has an injury that will put him out for 6-8 weeks. Former first-round pick Tubbs was waived today, as the team appears to have given up on the oft-injured defensive tackle. He was attempting......

When the Seahawks face the Minnesota Vikings tonight in their first pre-season game (5:00 p.m. on KONG-TV, 710 AM, 97.3 FM) there will be a number of sub-plots to watch. Tonight marks the first night in nine seasons without Shaun Alexander on the sidelines (or in the game, if the stars were lined up). After cutting Alexander in the off-season, the Hawks are going with a back-field-by-committee approach that has brought real competition to......

Former Seahawk cornerback Ken Lucas was involved in a training camp scuffle that was so one-sided he had to be carted off the field and required medical attention. During a special teams drill at this morning's Carolina Panther training camp, Lucas tangled with Pro-Bowl receiver Steve Smith. While training camp scuffles are commonplace as players vie for a place on the roster, serious fights which inflict injury are rare. However, the Lucas-Smith brawl was so......

Seahawks rookie defensive tackle Red Bryant injured his left knee at training camp this week, and will miss 4-5 weeks while recovering from arthroscopic surgery to repair cartilage. Bryant, a fourth-round pick in this year's draft, had been performing well in camp, helping to shore up a perennial weakness in an otherwise stout Seahawk defense. Bryant is engaged to the daughter of Seahawk Ring of Honor member Jacob Green.......

Just in time for the first day of training camp, the Seahawks have signed first-round draft pick Lawrence Jackson to a 5-year, $11.25 million deal. The contract included a $6.1 million contribution to Jackson's tip jar, in the form of a signing bonus. Jackson, a defensive end from USC, signed the deal in time to begin practice earlier today. To avoid any confusion to the casual Seattle sports fan: This is LAWRENCE Jackson, the Seattle......

Been sitting on the Seahawks waiting list for 4 years, and need to settle that football jones? The Seahawks are holding their annual pre-season scrimmage at Qwest Field on Aug. 2 at 11 a.m. Tickets are now on sale. Proceeds benefit local Play It Smart programs, a non-profit youth mentoring organization. Nationally, program participants are 20% more likely to graduate high school and 16% more likely to enter college.......

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......

Seth over Sports NW just tipped us off to the bad news regarding the Tacoma News Tribune's Seahawks Insider blog, which won't be updated until training camp. Ironically, the blog's tagline reads: "Where there is no off season." *cough* Frank Hughes explains the situation in a post:As you may have heard last week, the chain that owns the paper, McClatchy, announced that it is laying off 10 percent of its work force, which in our......

The Mariners won again last night by the skin of their teeth, shocking a Boston "Nation" whose presence has been hard to ignore throughout the series. The lowly Mariners are inconveniently getting in the way of a mighty "Nation" that strolled into the Emerald City expecting a sweep, and is now left licking its wounds after losing two straight to one of the most embarrassing teams in recent memory. It’s hard to know what......

Sept. 7 at Buffalo Bills 10 am Sept. 14 San Francisco 49ers 1 pm Sept. 21 St. Louis Rams 1 pm Sept. 28 Bye Oct. 5 at New York Giants 10 am Oct. 12 Green Bay Packers 1:15 pm Oct. 19 at Tampa Bay Buccaneers 5:15 pm Oct. 26 at San Francisco 49ers 1:15 pm Nov. 2 Philadelphia Eagles 1:15 pm Nov. 9 at Miami Dolphins 10 am Nov. 16 Arizona Cardinals 1 pm......

A week from today the NBA teamowners will meet in New York to, among other things, discuss and possibly vote on moving the Sonics from Lower Queen Anne to Oklahoma City. It will be interesting to see how Portland Trail Blazer owner Paul Allen votes. He is a Seattle native, who lives, works, and develops here. He also owns the Seahawks, many of whose fans would be devastated if the Sonics were to move. On......

Not all wounds heal quickly, as evidenced by allegations from a Pittsburgh Steelers fan who claims a fast-food-working Seahawks fan spit in his burger this week. Seattlest has three problems with this story: First of all, everybody who has ever worked in the restaurant business knows you don’t spit on top of the burger, you lift the bun and spit directly on the burger then conceal the treachery under the bun by placing it......

Local drink maker Jones Soda lost more than $10 million during the fourth quarter of last year, according to the PI. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, the company posted a 39-cent-per-share loss -- 13 times the 3-cent loss that analysts were expecting. During the same period a year ago, the company posted net income of $2 million, or 8 cents a share. That's a mighty big change in fortunes for a company that last......

Only the hardest of dorks will care, but the Seahawks have now lost two offensive coaches to our NFC rivals the Washington Redskins. Former Seahawk quarterbacks coach and long-time quarterback Jim Zorn was named head coach in the other Washington several days ago. Today, the departure of our running backs coach Stump Mitchell to the Redskins was announced. In a strange turn of events, according to The Washington Post, the Seahawks are bringing in......

In a press conference that's going on right now, Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren announced that 2008 will be his final year as head coach of the Seahawks. Holmgren is not retiring. He did not rule out returning to coaching in the future, but did say he would "take a break." He said he would leave the issue of who would succeed him as coach up to the Seahawks front office, saying "it wouldn't be appropriate"......

Both the P-I and TNT report that Mike Holmgren will return as coach of the Seahawks. The P-I's Clare Farnsworth writes that "a source close to the situation" confirms that Holmgren will return. We say hooray! Holmgren is by far the most successful coach in team history. There are a few things we wish he'd do better, but when it comes to the big stuff--having the respect of his players, keeping his team motivated, and,......

Frank Hughes of the Tacoma News-Tribune reports that Mike Holmgren will announce whether he's going to remain as Seahawks coach, retire, or what, this afternoon. Over the weekend Hawks assistant coach Jim Mora withdrew his name from consideration for the Washington Redskins coaching job, despite being the 'Skins top candidate. This has led to speculation that Mora withdrew his name because he'd been promised Holmgren was retiring and that he'd get the Hawks job.......

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook. On Sunday morning, following a trip to a local farmer's market/major supermarket chain, we will be preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks' opponent. Then at halftime we will throw our badly burned hands in the air and make hot dogs. Seahawks vs. Kielbasa and Cheese preview Our Kielbasa & Cheese recipe called for name-brand kielbasa,......

It struck us halfway through Green Bay's 5th straight drive for a touchdown that Brett Favre's performance in this game was a lot like Roger Clemens' one-hit performance against the Mariners in the 2000 ALCS. When faced with a Hall-of-Famer at his best, what can you do? Favre was 18-23, throwing pinpoint pass after pinpoint pass: timing routes, hitting guys in stride, and, in the highlight that will come to represent this game, breaking out......

This weekend's highlight for Geoff will be a Brewer's Dinner at The Collins Pub held by Hair of the Dog Brewery from Portland. 6 courses paired with 6 beers, plus a few special releases to boot. As a Bears and now semi-Seahawks fan, he'll be hoping that Brett Favre breaks a hip during Saturday's Seahawks game at Lambeau Field. Aside from the glamorous task of replacing the gutters on his house, Jack's weekend pretty much......

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......