This Oregon drive started when the Ducks intercepted Jake Locker on their own 6. Oregon drove the ball into Husky territory, but were still outside field goal range on this key 3rd & 8. If the Huskies were going to have a chance, they needed to make a stop on this play, and they couldn't--due to a blitz that didn't work and miscommunication in the secondary. 1) The Dawgs lined up in a nickel package--four......

While you're enjoying an unseasonably sunny summer afternoon, we will be at Safeco Field, showing our undying support for the 2007 Seattle Mariners, authors of one of the greatest collapses in baseball history. We're not fairweather fans, not us. We gallantly display our pride for the local nine, those proud lads who...um...ok, fine, we lucked into a free ticket and didn't have other plans. Anyway, misery loves company, so we've fired up the Seattlest History-O-Matic......

One first round NCAA matchup is #2-seed UCLA against #15-seed Weber State--both teams that the Huskies beat! They beat UCLA, by 10, in the final game of the regular season last Saturday. Weber State the Dawgs beat by 29, pushing their record to 10-1, on December 23rd. The Dawgs moved up to #13 in the next coaches poll, then they lost three Pac-10 games in a row, and, well, let's just not talk about it.......

So. The Huskies. The team that's our city's best chance at a 2007 championship trophy, and they can't even beat the Cougs. Historical fact: No team has ever lost to Washington State University and gone on to win the championship of anything. But here's the good news: because the Huskies are in the nation's best conference, they have six more games against ranked teams, and three against teams ranked in the top 10 (Oregon, Pittsburgh......

The University of Washington basketball team ran away from Washington State on Saturday, leading by as many as 32 before settling for an 86-64 victory. After starting the game on a 10-2 run, the Huskies never trailed, though Washington State got within one point at 4:07 left in the first half. The Dawgs shot 55% in the second half to secure the victory, their 23rd straight against the Cougs. The Dawgs' 86 points was their......

After the Huskies' played the last five minutes of last night's game [Times, P-I, S.F. Chronicle] as if they'd been inhabited by the spirit of Mike Jensen, we got a little chippy with our Kenmore dryer and kicked the inanimate-ing shit out of it. The Dawgs are a young team, and psychological meltdowns happen. We're not too worried about the team, they actually played terrific for 35 minutes, especially the first half when they stayed......

Sometimes you earn a win, and sometimes the other team gives you one. Here are the all-time screw-ups by opponents that helped Seattle teams win big games. 1) Tony Romo We've pretty much covered this, and it's got to be #1. 2) Jim Sweeney and the 1975 Apple Cup Up 27-14 with 3:01 left and the ball deep in Husky territory, the Cougar coach let his players talk him into passing for a touchdown. The......

The Hec Ed PA announcer actually said that, before an unexpectedly entertaining Northern Iowa/Nicholls St. clash to kick off the Basketball Travelers round robin. Washington's first game of the year, which came next, was expectedly entertaining. It would've been more so had the refs not called the game like a seniors' rec league, calling 52 fouls. The Huskies jumped out to an early lead on the strength of true freshman Quincy Pondexter's ferocious defense, open......

Seattlest's top three reasons why Saturday's non-conference game against Fresno State is more important than the average non-conference game. 1) The Huskies need confidence. A win will give them some. The UW hasn't beaten a decent opponent since November 11, 2003, when they beat then #14 Washington State. Fresno State is a legitimate (though not great) team. In fact, they are favored to win Saturday's game. The Dawgs need this win heading into Pac-10......

The 1985 Orange Bowl between UW and Oklahoma is one of Seattlest's earliest memories. After Dad told us to stop fidgeting (we were real nervous) we sat our 8-year-old butt in a chair, by the 17-inch Sony Trinitron, and watched the flickering images of a titanic Husky upset beam back from Miami. We were too young to know that we were watching genius at work. With Coach Don James' game plan, the Huskies ran for......

Some minor Washington football tidbits this morning: --Emeka Iweka, our favorite high school basketball player, has decided to devote his 6-6, 290lb. body to football. He verbally committed to the UW football program. Iweka verbally committed to the Oregon State basketball program as a freshman. Apparently some people change priorities from their freshman to junior years of high school. Who knew? The Times says Iweka will be a defensive end, the P-I says he projects......

Brandon Roy carried the Huskies to yet another win last night. His 28 points led the Dawgs over Utah State in the first round of the tournament, and his double jab step, rise and shoot three late in the game was the nail in the Aggies' coffin. Jamaal Williams had a big game, too, providing needed scoring early in the game when the Huskies started very, very slow. The Dawgs had balanced outside shooting, and......

Rainier Beach, Seattlest's favorite high school hoops team, got upset in the state quarterfinals last night, by Lynden High. But, really, what chance did they stand against a team that has players with names like Dirk Dallas and Brady Bomber. Dallas had 19 points, Bomber had 15. Is this a high school basketball team or a 30's detective novel? The Seahawks released two defensive starters and a no-name, possibly to free up the money they'll......

Basketball has been good to Seattlest recently. It provided the impetus for a weekend trip down I-5, where we watched the Dawgs obliterate Oregon State, surprised ourselves by spending only $50 at Powell’s, and had a fantastic dim-sum brunch. In other news: Brandon Roy’s 21 points against Oregon and near triple-double vs. the Beavers won him Pac-10 player of the week honors for the second week in a row. The last Husky to do that......

Both the Dawg hoop men and Dawg hoop women are a few Pac-10 wins away from securing berths in the NCAA tournament. For the men, it would be their third trip in a row to the Big Dance, a record for the men's program. For the women, it would be their first NCAA tourney since 2003. Wins at both Oregon schools would give the men 20 wins, traditionally a milestone that practically guarantees an NCAA......

Opportunistic, smothering defense keyed the Husky women's upset of #10 Stanford last night at Hec Ed. The Dawgs forced 24 Cardinal turnovers (committing only 10 themselves). Guards Emily Florence and Kristen O'Neill each had four steals, and took the Cardinal out of their game. "We really struggled with our point-guard situation and didn't run our offense well at all," Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer told the Seattle Times. "And [Washington] outworked us." Junior guard Cameo......

After starting the season with four straight wins, the University of Washington men's basketball team snuck into the Associated Press Top 25, garnering one more point in the AP's voting/rankings system than Iowa State. They still don't rank in the USA Today/ESPN poll, finishing just out of the top 25 with the 27th most votes. The Dawgs, who have won 25 consecutive home games (one behind current streak leader Gonzaga), play at home tonight at......

The Husky football team, helped by a Hail Mary touchdown pass to end the second half, became the first state school to win a Pac-10 game this season, beating Arizona 38-14. The Dawgs host the Apple Cup next Saturday. The Seahawks put a death lock on the NFC West, beating division rival St. Louis for the second time this season. Shawn Alexander scored three touchdowns, the last capping a five-and-a-half minute fourth quarter drive that......

A basketball is 9.39 inches across. A basketball hoop is 18 inches across. A perfectly placed shot has very little air on either side of it as it swishes through the rim. Four inches in any direction, and it's a brick. More than a little luck is involved. The Seattle media would do well to keep this in mind. For whenever the UW Husky men have lost this year, our city's imaginative sportswriters have ascribed......

The Washington men's basketball team continued their consistent, poised play with a split of two games in Arizona over the weekend. Even Thursday's 92-81 loss to the Arizona Wildcats demonstrated how good this team is. Despite their worst shooting performance of the season, the Huskies stayed close, in a hostile arena, against the 11th-best team in the country. I don't know if there is a phrase to describe the opposite of a Pyrrhic victory,......