The Sounders ended their season with a win, but their season is over all the same. more ›

With one team fighting to stay in the playoffs, one team guaranteeing a spot in the postseason, and one team leaving us wondering how they'll even make it through this season, it was an up-and-down weekend in Seattle sports. more ›

The Sounders finished out the regular season with a win, but the other football teams around town didn't fare as well. more ›

With the Huskies enjoying a bye week, it was up to the Seahawks and Sounders to provide some sports action this weekend. more ›

It was a good weekend to be a Seattle sports fan as the Sounders, Seahawks, and Huskies all won over the weekend. more ›

The highs and lows of the weekend in Seattle sports. more ›

This weekend you can shower yourself in the light of burning rocks, sweeten your ears with dark country, melt the sun up in Darrington, watch pirates and ninjas drink together as family, and score against poverty. If you manage even half that, you'll be true Renaissance. more ›

Several Seattle sports teams suffered defeats over the weekend, but one squad showed that we know what winning streaks look like, too. more ›

Good news for the US women's team. Is it too early to drink to their excellent sporting abilities? We think not. more ›

Watch out, Seattle: the Timbers have officially hexed us. Assuming a voodoo donut wearing a Sounders jersey and filled with pretzel "pins" can be considered threatening. more ›

It's been 20 years since the first Women's World Cup--then called the Women's World Championship--and this year Germany is playing host to the sixth international festival of female football madness. In the last five meetings, the United States have taken the whole enchilada twice and finished in a respectable third place three times. What do their chances look like in 2011? more ›

Seattle's sports teams had a wild ride this weekend. Catch up on everything you may have missed, or you'll be sorely out of the loop when everyone else at work is talking stats. more ›

The Sounders play the Timbers tonight! It's such a big deal that the Wall Street Journal covered it, presenting a detailed article (in the sports section! the WSJ has a sports section?) not about the merits of the players but about the hippieness of the fans. The article finds a 15-year-old Sounders fan willing to call all Portlanders "meth-headed" and "jobless," a Seattleite willing to say Mac & Jack's is better than Deschutes, and a Portland grad student worried that "Seattle has Republicans." The article is such an amazing clusterfuck of stereotypes, uglier than six players on the ball at the same time, that it's hard to believe it came from the WSJ and not the Onion. Based in part on the article, we came up with our own (not-very-skill-related) list of characteristics for judging the teams. Portland scored a lot of points, but Seattle eked by on the shoulders of one tall bald man. Is it a preview of tomorrow evening? Let's hope so. more ›

Too busy watching the most exciting two minutes in sports to catch up with your local teams? No worries--Annie's got the news from the Sounder, Mariners and the Huskies. more ›

Well that was fun while it lasted. Of all people to pop this little Bronx balloon ride the Mariners were on, of course it had to be A-Rod. After another set of back-to-back complete game wins by Cliff Lee and Felix Hernandez, this time over the league-leading Yankees, suddenly we thought the M's could pull this thing out. Then A-Rod slapped a 2-run home run in the eight inning of today's game to beat the M's 4-2, prevent a sweep, and destroy our soul. What an asshole. more ›

Despite the best efforts of THE WORLD, the USA is moving on to the knockout rounds of the World Cup. And the way we're feeling right now, we could knock some people OUT. more ›

We’ve been a little distracted by the World Cup for the past 10 days, watching pretty much every match with the help of headphones on our work computer. Despite odd looks from coworkers, we’ll continue to cheer when appropriate. Yes, New Zealand just scored a goal, and I WILL MAKE YOU AWARE OF IT. Meanwhile, under our noses, the Mariners have provided some mercifully vuvuzela-free entertainment. more ›

Well, the long weekend is over, and incase you missed any of the local sports action nursing burns from the sun or an ill-fated barbecue, here’s a quick recap more ›

This weekend, the Sounders lost at home again, and so did the Mariners. The UW softball team continued to be awesome. This trio of plotlines has repeated itself enough that it’s starting to feel like that movie Groundhog Day. As we see it, the only way out of this endless cycle is for Bill Murray to sleep with Andie MacDowell, at which time it will become February 3, 1993, and we will be forced to relive puberty. more ›

On Saturday the Sounders got absolutely spanked 4-0 by the Los Angeles Galaxy. It was their worst home loss ever, in front of their biggest crowd ever. So, taking a page from the Nordstrom playbook, the Sounders front office announced Sunday it is giving all 32,000 season ticket holders their money back for having to watch the team essentially take a 90-minute crap on the XBOX pitch. more ›

Today is a huge sports day in our corner of the world, and we can't really stand it, having to keep our energy somewhat bottled in at the office. As noted earlier this week, tonight the Huskies look to make history and advance to the Elite Eight in the NCAA basketball tournament for the first time ever. Then the Sounders FC take the Qwest Field pitch to officially kick off the MLS in 2010, and build on last year's phenomenal season. more ›

Weekend One of March Madness is over, and already our bracket is gone, murdered by a fusillade of upsets. But we don’t care! The Huskies are on their way to Syracuse, NY and the Sweet 16, having barreled Prius-style through the New Mexico Lobos on Saturday, 82-64. more ›

Earlier, we asked if anyone outside the MLS bubble thought the idea of a players’ strike was a good idea, based on the fact that much of America hasn’t latched on to the sport quite like Seattle has. As next week’s strike deadline approaches with no sign of a deal between the players’ union and the league, Sounders FC majority owner Joe Roth - very much inside the bubble - has chimed in, and he agrees. more ›

The NCAA Selection Committee, who'll pick the 65-team bracket Sunday, can be a bitch if they're not sufficiently impressed, kind of like the girl in biology class who snubbed us for that taller upperclassman before Sadie Hawkins. (We're not still bitter.) The good news is the Huskies took a step towards an invitation last night, coming from behind to beat Oregon State 59-52 in the quarterfinals of the Pac-10 Tournament. more ›

Regardless of the cause, the Huskies (16-7, 6-5 Pac-10) need to win tonight, not only to prove to themselves they can do so outside city limits, but because Cal (15-8, 7-4) holds first place in the Pac-10. A UW victory pulls them into a tie atop the standings; a loss drops them into the murky middle of a conference that may send two teams to the NCAA tournament if it’s lucky. Consider that the final three games on the Husky schedule are on the road, and the monkey becomes a full-on gorilla with a loss tonight. more ›

US Soccer officials say they picked the bid cities using 21 different criteria based on FIFA requirements. But aside from our world-class stadiums and fans, we’d like to believe Seattle made it for fear if we weren’t picked, a pissed-off mob and marching band would have assembled at Occidental Park, trekked to US Soccer HQ, and burned the place down. more ›

This list of Google searches specific to various cities has some interesting stuff about the Pacific Northwest. The top ten search terms in Seattle: more ›

In better crime news,a robbery victim foiled the theft of his cell phone using only a soccer cleat, driving the would-be robber into the more welcoming arms of the police. From the SPD Blotter: more ›

Aside from on-field accomplishments, one of the shining successes of the Sounders FC organization was its connection to fans and the community at large. Today, as part of festivities leading up to Sunday's MLS Cup at Qwest Field, a few Sounders are chipping in to build an entire elementary school playground. In one day. more ›

Sunday afternoon felt a bit like that October day in 1995 when the Cleveland Indians snuffed out the Mariners “Refuse to Lose” fairy tale run. Remember little Joey Cora weeping in the dugout after the game, being consoled by then-Mariner Alex Rodriguez? After the final whistle, we felt a lot like that, except we were in a half-empty bar (not a dugout), being consoled by a half-empty beer (not a prick). more ›