Are you annoyed every fall as football season starts? You see all your friends getting together to watch a stupid game and want to join in but really hate actually watching. Morgen was right there with you, but now she's found a way to have fun with football rather than despite it.
Fantasy Football Newb: Learning to Love Sports (or at Least Like Them)
Extra, Extra: Seahawks, Stabbings and Citations
WSP catches drunk drivers, the Seahawks are done with drafts, Microsoft's Windows phone is floundering, and a man gets stabbed in--where else?--Belltown.
Weekend Sports Roundup: Soccer Wins, Baseball Slumps, and Hydroplane Glory Edition
This was a banner weekend for Seattle's sports teams. Catch up on all the stats with Annie's AM sports roundup.
Extra, Extra: Tragedy, Obesity and Shawn Kemp Jr.
Washington's the 28th most obese state, two very sad stories and some good news for Seattle sports geeks.
Weekend Sports Roundup: Big League Debut Edition
Even on a holiday, Annie's got all the sporting news that's fit to publish.
Women's World Cup Kicks Off
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?
Weekend Sports Roundup: Three Wins and a Draw
It was a wild weekend for Seattle-area sports. Annie's here to catch you up to speed, so you can know what you're talking about when your coworkers start going on about Saturday's shutout.
Don't Drop the Ball: Make This the Year You Actually Support the Seattle Storm
Like a kid whose first love went away to college and never came back, Seattle will never get over the Sonics. But there is, it turns out, another professional basketball team in town. And they're awesome. They were champs last year, and their season opener is this weekend. Let's make this the year we get behind the Storm.
Weekend Sports Roundup
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.
Weekend Sports Roundup: Feeling Drafty
Feeling locked out of the local sports chatter? Annie's got the information you need.
Seahawks Looking for Help At Pretty Much Every Position in the NFL Draft
With the NFL draft kicking off today, Adam talks us through the Seahawks' needs for the upcoming season.
Weekend Sports Roundup: Quiet Bats Edition
Annie's got the news from all your favorite local sports teams, for better or for worse.
Weekend Sports Roundup
Missed the game by that local sports team? No worries--Annie's got the long and short of the weekend in sports.
Mariners At Least Still Mathematically in the Playoff Hunt Before Tonight's Home Opener
After starting the 2011 season with two wins over the Oakland A's, the M's have gone into a bit of a tailspin this past week, which included three straight losses to the still-undefeated Texas Rangers.
Gallery: Rat City Rollergirls
This past Saturday was Rat City Rollergirls' second bout of the season at KeyArena. Seattle's own all-female flat-track roller derby league hosted the Rose City Rollers from Portland in a showdown that was sold out 15 minutes after it began. See the scores below! The next Rat City bout is on Saturday, March 19, and tickets are already on sale. More information on their website.
Seattlest Gift Guide: Gifts for Sports Fans
Wondering what to get that Seattle sports fan on your list? Here’s a few last minute gift ideas for every type of athletic supporter.
Scoreboard: The Weekend in Seattle Sports
Apparently the Spokane Arena was a little quiet on Friday when Washington State defeated Texas Pan-American 74-52. Could this be because the Cougs were fresh off defeating Spokane's own Gonzaga Bulldogs and had trouble getting the locals to come out and cheer as a result? Or, was it because they were playing a team like Texas Pan-American? You be the judge.
Scoreboard: The Weekend in Seattle Sports
Let's play a quick game of Jeopardy. We'll give you the answer and you tell us what the question is...
Stevens Pass Opening Day Tomorrow
Dust off those skis and snowboards. After snow reached Seattle last week, the mountains have reportedly collected enough snow to be open for business starting this Wednesday, December 1. Details below, but do remember that everything is subject to the weather, so be sure to check the current conditions before heading out.
WTF ... Rocksport Has Gone To The Dawgs
On game days, we Wolverines in Husky country (or Cougar if you prefer) would don our caps and sweatshirts and settle in for another angst-filled, alcohol-fueled, gripefest. Fast forward to 2008 and news came that Belltown's Buckley's had replaced Rocksport as our official bar. Undeterred, we Wolverines kept returning to our beloved bar.
Meet Your New Mariners
While the Mariners' on-field play continues to leave a lot to be desired, one off-field moment this week gave M's fans a much-needed distraction: the major league baseball draft deadline. Once Monday night became Tuesday morning, all major league draft choices must have signed a contract, otherwise the drafting teams forfeited the player's rights.
Cliff, We Hardly Knew Ye
Today is the day the Mariners formally said, "Eh fuck it" to the 2010 baseball season. As we anticipated, but never quite fully accepted in our Seattle Sports Fan Delusion, the Mariners traded away pitcher Cliff Lee, to of all teams, divison rival Texas. So all of you who are sad to see him go, not to worry. We'll see plenty of him again in September when he's throwing complete games against us.
A-Rod, Times, Kindly Put Mariners Back In Their Place
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.
Yankee Stadium Can Be Nice - A Dispatch From the Bronx
If you've never been there, Yankee Stadium can be a scary place in the mind of a Seattleite. Growing up, we'd always thought it was a place where gunfire broke out at random, and anyone wearing another team's jersey got stabbed in the neck with a rusty screwdriver.
World Cup 2010: "AMERICA, F**K YEAH!"
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.
This Week in American Sports: The Mariners Are Winning
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.
Huskies Softball Season May Not End Well
Well, this isn't exactly how this was supposed to go. The all-powerful UW softball team was supposed to go to Oklahoma City, tear up some other teams, and come back to Seattle with the national championship trophy for the second straight year because that shit is ours. Not so fast.
How Not To Celebrate Winning, and Other Weekend Sports Notes
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
Seattle Sports Stuck In Inescapable Time Loop
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.

