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Back to the tie though, which Times' columnist Steve Kelley accurately describes as more of a loss. With three straight wins leading into the game, another revved-up record crowd at their backs, and an opponent they'd beaten twice before, the Sounders should have won.

When they’re not doing that, presumably they’re making out with mirrors or enjoying the smell of their own farts. Hell, even a columnist for The Oregonian did a Top 10 list of why Duck fans suck. (We can only imagine how bad our hubris would have to be for Steve Kelley or Art Thiel to ever turn on us.)

No sense in dwelling on the shortcomings of Seattle’s American football teams. This Monday, there’s only one sports story worth writing and reading about, and that’s the Seattle Sounders FC.

Please forgive Seattlest for the horrible attempt at a punny play on words headline, but we spent most of Thursday watching a spaceship balloon drift across Denver. So now our brain is dead.

Seattlest had barely dried our tears from last weekend’s Huskies and Seahawks losses when we learned Wednesday that The Sporting News ranked Seattle an abysmal 52nd place on its 2009 list of Best Sports Cities.

To be a Seattle sports fan this weekend was to rediscover that we indeed had a functioning heart.

This weekend the Seattle sports world parachutes into a Midwestern hot pocket as footballers Sounders FC, Huskies, and Seahawks play within about 300 miles of each other in Indiana and Ohio. Their respective opponents are tough. We're hoping at least two, if not all three squads win, because we think imbibing is much more fun in victory than in defeat.

Gregory Christine, a junior from an L.A. suburb, doesn't have a football scholarship. A walk-on, he's spent his entire UW career on the scout team, seeing live action just once. He was a third-stringer coming into fall camp. Yet Christine, that smiling guy pictured, will start at left guard for the Huskies on Saturday. And already he's our favorite walk-on since Joe Jarzynka.

More than 100 Sounders fans are packed into a downtown D.C. pub this afternoon, sucking down liquid courage in advance of their foray into enemy territory for tonight's U.S. Open Cup final against D.C. United.

The Mariners are sending free agent bust Carlos Silva out on a rehab assignment today. The original plan was to send him to AAA Tacoma, but Silva will go to A-ball Everett instead. Why? Because the Rainiers have unexpectedly stormed back into the Pacific Coast League pennant race, and having Silva pitch might "jeopardize" their chances, in the words of TNT's Larry LaRue. Yes, a pitcher who'll make $11 million this year (and $11.5 million both next year and the year after) can't be trusted against the Salt Lake Bees. Just shoot us now.

Everyone has a weakness (even Chuck Norris). LSU is no different. Quarterback is the one and only position where the Huskies have an edge.

About 800 tickets for the Sept. 18 nationally-televised high school football dream contest between Issaquah's Skyline High (with BYU QB recruit Jake Heaps) and California's Oaks Christian High (with UW QB recruit Nick "Son of Joe" Montana) go on sale tomorrow at 8 a.m. at Skyline High School. Cash or check only. We will be at a wedding in Buffalo--does no one check the high school football schedules anymore?

Let's talk about what can happen when a national title contender (like LSU) plays an early season game 2,000 miles from home in a loud, hostile stadium against an unranked power conference team (like Washington). One thing that can happen is that the national title contender will get stomped. Ask the 1983 Washington Huskies.

Your Seattle Storm clinched a spot in next month's WNBA playoffs with a home win over Connecticut last night. If the playoffs started today, the Storm would be the Western Conference's #2-seed and face their longtime nemeses, the Los Angeles Sparks. The Storm have six regular season games left, including a home game Saturday vs. Atlanta. Tickets!

If Griffey isn't coming back, will we have a "Griffey Day" to celebrate his career? A final goodbye for all the fans who grew up with The Kid?

Welcome to Seattle, Edgerrin James! The likely Hall-of-Famer is a Seahawk, signed to provide depth at a position that has been unsettled since Shaun Alexander's 2006 collapse.

How boring was last night's M's game? Until reserve outfielder Ryan Langerhans' 10th-inning homer, the loudest cheers of the night were for a seagull that landed in the outfield. (Because outfields are for PEOPLE! HA!) The home run, Langerhans' second walk-off of the month, beat the A's--exciting! Here's video of the homer, along with Dave Sims' excited call.

Coach Steve Sarkisian is a micromanager. For good and bad. Good: He was directly involved in many of the offensive run-throughs. This seems like a bright idea considering he's the mastermind of an offense that's brand-new to Husky players. Bad: He hectored a ball boy for putting balls in the wrong place. Can't someone else be supervising the student managers?

These ladies hit the ball hard--while we were sitting there, one of their blasts obliterated the protective casing around a video camera that was set out on the court. This wasn't the best set up for taking notes, as we had to keep our eyes up to avoid getting smacked by a ball.

"Kingdome implosion, 2000" by seattlemunicipalarchives , from our Flickr pool

Mariners third baseman Adrian Beltre may miss the rest of the season after taking a ground ball to the nuts. Beltre does not wear a protective cup when he plays, he's said it's uncomfortable. Now, though, he's got a bleeding testicle that may need surgery--which would end his season. Beltre becomes the second Mariner in our memory lost to a testicle injury: pitcher Josias Manzanillo, another freeballer, suffered a similar injury in 1997.

Kate Hudson wants A-Rod as a sperm donor, In Touch magazine reports. Says a "friend of Hudson" (ahem): "She just turned 30 and she's ready to have her second child...so she brought up the idea to Alex and told him that they would make a beautiful baby together, and that she would assume all financial responsibility."

Ken Griffey Jr.'s 1190th RBI as a Mariner was a special one--a game-winning hit in the bottom of the 14th inning. Watch the highlight here. Junior's major league career may be winding down, but he's still giving us some memorable moments. The M's play the Yankees tonight in the first game of a four-game series.

USA plays Mexico in a World Cup qualifier today which is a big deal. (No, really, it is. Don't make us sent Teabaggers to your house).

Imagine it: You're coming off the field after a baseball game, and a reporter asks this question: "How d'ya like the two-hole?" Rather personal, wouldn't you say? We can't tell whether Russell Branyan is playing along in his response--listen for yourself if you've a taste for exceedingly juvenile humor. We know we do. The audio of the encounter was capture by the Tacoma News-Tribune's Ryan Divish.

The Mariners and Yankees have played some outstanding games here over the years; below we present part one of our top ten. Historic, surprising, violent, record-breaking--the list has it all. We're giving you #6-10 today, with the top five coming tomorrow

Probably worth the eight seconds it will take you this morning to watch this highlight of Russell Branyan's violent homer last night in the M's win over Chicago. The "Las Vegas" sign below the Hit It Here Cafe is still shaking, we're sure. We would give an arm to be able to hit a baseball like this just once.

Safeco's meaty special of the week: The New York Yankees' first 2009 Seattle appearance, in a four-game series starting Thursday.

Saw Catch Me If You Can over the weekend, and it struck me that the 2009 Mariners are working in a similar way--auditioning players for roles on next season's team while still putting on a professional performance.

The Mariners' decision to appeal a judge’s ruling allowing the regional-stripping powerhouse Déjà Vu franchise to open in the neighborhood reeks of the same family pandering of a few years back when they wouldn’t let you wear “Yankees Suck” T-shirts inside the stadium.*