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."
Seahawks Insider Blog Unplugged Due to Staff Shortage
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-- "Best Media-Affiliated Sports Blog" two years running? Congrats, Seahawks Insider.
-- 100 years after Seattle took the city over, Wallingford transplant Archie McPhee urges you to free Ballard.
-- This was no boat accident.
-- Can Rainier Avenue drivers be scared straight -- by billboards?
-- JetBlue, Expedia. Expedia, JetBlue.
-- Ken Jennings discovers the saddest sentence on Wikipedia.
These Are the People in Your Neighborhood
Hot on the heels of revelations of what it's like to share a condo building with former Seahawk Jerramy Stevens (good if you like getting showered with condoms and vomit), comes a bizarre story from the Atlanta home of new Seahawk Patrick Kerney.
Jerramy Stevens Has His Own Kind of Spring Training
Seattlest was down in Arizona for spring training last week, and dammit if we didn't just miss what sounds like a hell of a lot of fun with Jerramy Stevens. From The Arizona Republic:
A Seattle Seahawks player faces charges of driving under the influence and possession of marijuana after his Tuesday morning arrest in downtown Scottsdale.more ›
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--Sean Penn, book your hotel room now.
"I Almost Shit My Pants! I Almost Shit My Pants!"
Romo sign procured from Qwest Field by our roommate, who was at the game, sitting behind two Dallas fans. For some reason they didn't take their sign with them when they left.
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--The Hawks' Walter Jones, Lofa Tatupu, Julian Peterson and Mack Strong are going Pro Bowl-ing.
The Last Person to Leave the Seahawks Bandwagon Really Did Turn Out the Lights!
Seahawks Insider reports that he won't be reporting from Seahawks HQ today:
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--UW researchers have discovered how to spy on users of the new Nike+ipod sports kit.
Hey Green Bay, Welcome to Our Frozen Tundra
- Tonight: Seahawks vs. Packers, 5:30 pm on ESPN and Channel 11.
Sapp Calls Out Stevens as GroinGate Continues
Three days after the Seahawks' Jerramy Stevens and the Raiders' Tyler Brayton engaged in a groin-kicking contest, the debate rages on--mostly about Stevens' immaturity.
Football Hall of Fame Shits on Our Childhood
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.
Chunky Soup Curse Strikes: Hasselbeck Out For Maybe a Month
Doctors found damage to Matt Hasselbeck's medial-collateral ligament, injured Sunday on what some Hawks say was a dirty hit.
Jesus Heals Seahawks Running Back
According to Seahawks Insider, Shaun Alexander says his foot doesn't hurt anymore--not after he spent a few days praying about it.
Mike Holmgren, Petulant Baby
When he's not making doody in his diaper, Mike Holmgren is spitting up creamed carrots or screaming for his "binky."
Bad News for the Seahawks
Seems like somebody always gets dinged for the year in preseason football, and this year it's Hawks safety (and free agent pickup from Chicago) Mike Green. From Mike Sando's Seahawks Insider:
Position Battles Raging Already at Seahawks Minicamp
No, we haven't said much about Seahawks minicamp. We forgot about Seahawks minicamp, frankly. But nothing could be more important to the handful of guys trying to stick as a sixth wide reciever, a fifth running back, or a fourth QB. One of these is Skyler Fulton, an Olympia product who starred in NFL Europe this year, and is trying to fight through a shoulder injury to stick with the Hawks this year.
Seahawks Need Therapy
Kirkland police arrested Seahawk defensive end Bryce Fisher on a domestic violence charge last month. Their report (pdf. courtesy of Seahawks Insider, which broke the story) describes an argument over infidelity that devolved into grappling over a cell phone, and Fisher putting his wife in an "arm bar." Being 260 pounds, Fisher apparently hurt her.
Seahawks Pillage Vikings for Local Star
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.

