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......

"Boy Kicking Football, Circa 1920s" by Seattle Municipal Archives Say "New York Giants" to most Seahawk fans, and the conversation will turn to the 2005 OT game at Qwest Field, where the Giants missed three field goals, including two in overtime, and the Hawks prevailed 24-21. Kicker Jay Feely had an epic fail that day, and his holder, punter Jeff Feagles, had the best seat in the house as the trainwreck unfolded. Feagles punted for......

Seth Kolloen, Seattlest editor emeritus and current editor of Sports Northwest magazine, has found a local sports stand-in for Obama's VP. We were laughing through our tears as we read it.To put it in baseball terms, Obama’s got a three-run lead, going into the seventh inning. And who’s coming out of the bullpen for tomorrow night’s debate? Joe Biden, the Bobby Ayala of American presidential politics. Joe Biden, who sunk his 1988 presidential campaign by......

"Destination: Goal" by Seattlest Flickr contributor jaycoxfilm The City Council has approved Arena Sports' proposal to renovate Hangar 27 at Magnuson Park. The project, which is entirely privately funded (are you listening basketball fans?) will begin immediately, and the facility will open in 2009. The city retains ownership of the structure, however, Arena Sports will receive free rent up to the value of the improvements. Additionally, Arena Sports will offer free programs and scholarships. Nearly......

"jonas" by Seattlest Flickr contributor Doug Felts It could be worse. Somehow. We guess SoDo could have been swallowed up in a giant sinkhole. Or the Mariners could keep playing for another three months. Thankfully, their season ended Sunday, bumbling to a 61-101 record, and our long civic nightmare appears to be over, or at least delayed for a few months. Huskies: When the one superstar athlete on your team is less healthy than a......

"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......

1986 is probably the most overlooked Mariner season of all time. They were able to turn the league's worst record into number one pick Ken Griffey Jr. Their bottom of the barrel effort in 1992 led to Alex Rodriguez. Could 2008's shit-covered season lead to the next baseball phenom? With three games to play, the Mariners are locked in a tight race with the Washington Nationals for the much-hyped college pitcher Stephen Strasburg. A few......

"ichiro! wonders who will play right field tomorrow," by Seattlest Flickr contributor edgardiazrocks We knew that the Boys of SoDo had lost their mojo this summer. But we didn't realize how bad things really were at Safeco, especially concerning everyone's favorite nihonjin. Sure, we had heard the rumblings: Only wants to play certain positions. Stays in a different hotel on road trips. Demands separate planes. Pretends not to speak English. (It all reminds us of......

Seattlest gets around. We cover all sorts of newsy stuff. We've covered houses burning, politicians resigning, musicians overdosing, businesses bankrupting, hikers plummeting, homes foreclosing and all the rest, and every single time, we have seen tears shed. Heck, years ago, we covered a teachers' union meeting when news rippled through the room that Sesame Street creator Jim Henson had just died, and there wasn't a dry eye in the house. The point is, we've......

"Kacyvenski and Hasselbeck," by King County Metro website Isaiah Kacyvenski, who played linebacker for the Seahawks from 2000-2006 is among a dozen pro athletes who have donated their brains to a medical study in hopes of providing new information into the long-term effects of concussions. Kacyvenski battled concussions throughout his Seahawk career. He joins a number of NFL athletes and other notable athletes, including U.S. soccer star Cindy Parlow in the study, which will be......

"Storm photo," by Seattlest Flickr contributor ntisocl After the loss of Lauren Jackson to ankle surgery a few weeks ago, the Storm powered their way into the playoffs with strong defense, good rebounding and an uptick in backcourt scoring. Last night, in their 71-64 season-ending loss to the L.A. Sparks, the Storm failed on all three. From the opening tip, the Sparks were the tougher team, until, with their backs to the wall and trailing......

"Shoeless," by Flickr contributor gulinvardar We were thrilled to see Mad Men get some hardware at the Emmys last night, since it is a fave at the Seattlest crib. In one of the more stunning scenes this season, Don Draper has a confrontation with his blackmailing adultress, where, with a smile, he seductively slides his hand up her dress, then grabs her by her girly-bits (yeah, those girly-bits), and curtly tells her to cut the......

"Alice in Chains w/ Northwest Symphony Orchestra," by Seattlest Flickr contributor architecturegeek In the midst of Seattlest's angst over the Seahawks' 33-30 overtime loss last Sunday to the Niners, we totally forgot to mention that Alice in Chains played at halftime. Duh. The 12-minute performance featured Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir," and the band was accompanied by the Northwest Symphony Orchestra and some righteous smoke machines. Aside from the music, our favorite moment in the set was......

Erik Bedard, the best 70-pitch starter in the big leagues, has decided to have shoulder surgery, officially ending his season. Bedard had struggled with shoulder problems all season and last pitched on July 4. He was the Mariners' biggest off-season signing last year, acquired in a trade with the Orioles for 5 players. The team expected the lefty to be the ace of the starting rotation this year. Instead, Bedard started only 15 games this......

Sue Bird shot courtesy of Flickr user rks-seattle This Seattlest has never been the world's biggest sports fan, as we've mentioned before. But Storm guard Sue Bird has made us care about women's basketball this season. We don't know enough about the game to use the right terminology, but we can say that she's fearless on both sides of the court, she scores a basket once every 30 seconds or so, and she appears to......

The Storm won a game against the worst team in the history of the WNBA and our local prep gridders went .500. Other than that, lots of sports-related misery to go around this weekend as our hometown football teams are now 0-8 for the season. Friday The Storm won at home 77-72, beating the visiting Atlanta Dream, whose 4-30 record is the worst ever in the WNBA. The Cougs were soundly thumped at Baylor......

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,......

Safeco Field, courtesy of Grundlepuck Go ahead and scold us for loving the Yankees. This Seattlest's first baseball game ever was at Yankee stadium, and we just can't separate from the love. Yet, our new hometown team, the fightin' Mariners, actually kind of smacked the Yanks down. Nothing terrifically exciting happened—no super-dramatic plays, no bases-loaded homers, or anything. But, the Mariners managed to keep the Yanks down til the 8th inning, when they scored their......

"Think Happy" by Seattlest Flickr contributor Timwillis Sue Bird is on a mission. With WNBA MVP Lauren Jackson nursing a bad ankle, Bird scored 13 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Seattle Storm to a 70-62 win over the Chicago Sky. The win seals a playoff spot for the fifth year in a row. Bird says she hasn't consciously changed her style of play. But Storm coach Brian Agler's urging may be having......

Seahawks Truck courtesy of Seattlest Flickr user Bernzilla It took us almost four years to get the nerve up to dine at Fisher Plaza’s Sport restaurant. Any bar that close to Steve Pool and Fox Radio gives us pause. The fact that ABC has random video cameras hanging from the ceiling didn’t help either. Sport subscribes to the Fox Sports Grill theory that any modern sports bar worth its weight in jojos must have an......

IN A WU TANG WAY: Not being of the hip-hop persuasion ourselves, Seattlest asked our resident hip-hop guru Katelyn how relevant it may be to people that Gza of Wu Tang Clan fame is playing at Neumo's tonight. She basically said it was relevant "in a Wu Tang way." We don't know what that means, but if you do, then Neumo's is your place to be. 8 p.m. doors // Neumo's // $20 YOUR BRAIN......

Those who can't wait for Husky basketball season, so they can heckle Oregon State, might want to tune in to tonight’s Democratic Convention. The Beaver’s new men’s basketball coach, Craig Robinson, will be taking the stage to address those gathered in Denver. This isn’t part of the Democrats plan to win the hearts and mind of Corvallis’ men’s winter amateur indoor sports fans, Robinson is Barack Obama's brother-in-law, having spent time in the same womb......

Like the large-scale divorce it is, Seattle and Oklahoma City have divvied up the personal artifacts and furniture once associated with the Seattle Supersonics. We get to keep the trophies, championship banners and retired jerseys--which will be kept and shown at the MOHAI. Oklahoma City and the Thunder (or whatever the team will be called) has been awarded some CDs, a flat screen TV, a basketball inflater, and a replay monitor. For once in this......

Sometimes a Bee Jay every day gets you wanting more. Mike Hargrove, who resigned as manager of the Mariners last July, claiming that he had lost his passion for the job, told the AP that he wants back in the big leagues. Hargrove has been managing the Liberal (Kansas) Bee Jays, a summer team for college players, an experience that has re-awoken the fire within. "Seeing these college kids love the game as much as......

Seattlest’s Olympic correspondent Mark Siano has been hard at work in Beijing getting the stories that you won’t hear about anywhere else. Protesting: Having the protest sign on the back of a map was the perfect distraction to get it past the Chinese sensors. I just folded it up with the "USA out of Iraq" part hidden and slid right on in. Layer after layer of security let me and my giant map go......

We present this classic Seinfeld clip:......

That feeling of oppression, smog, and soy sauce in the air can only mean one thing; the Beijing Olympics are underway. The Times and PI both have reporters blogging from China, and preview the Games on the intertubes. The NBC family of networks always makes it confusing with their mix of tape delay, and live only-on-the-East Coast coverage, however, Seth at Sports Northwest Magazine shares his TV picks. CBC (Channel 99 for most cable subscribers)......

With the Mariners taking the rest of the summer off, Seattlest (along with some other local rag) is adopting the Chicago White Sox as our fake team for the rest of the season. This became official with last week’s trade of Ken Griffey Jr (number 17?!?!). Griffey, who last played in a playoff game on October 5, 1997, is now only half a game back in the AL Central. Plus the White Sox are totally......

Dave Niehaus will be inducted into the Hall of Fame on Sunday morning, and if you haven't started driving yet, well, we don't think you'll be able to make it to Cooperstown by then. Luckily for you, the 10:30 a.m. ceremony will be broadcast on ESPN Classic and over the radio on 950 KJR. The Hall of Fame may have some sort of live streaming on their website; however, this is the Baseball Hall of......