"ADIOS SONICS!" by photo coyote Aw, thanks, Redhook. We really appreciate the sentiment. Now, if you could help the Seahawks or the Huskies start winning, we'd be even more grateful. Don't forget to add your lovely sentiments and photos to the Seattlest Flickr Pool.......

Is there drama in Saturday's NFC divisional playoff game between the Hawks and Packers? Well, the playoffs are always dramatic. But this game packs (ha!) even more of a theatrical punch. The storylines: Conquering Hero Returns to Site of Greatest Triumphs: Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren was once coach of Green Bay. He got the Packers to two Super Bowls, winning one--their first championship since the departure of legendary coach Vince Lombardi. There's a street named......

As we write Pioneer Square is alive with the blue and white. The booze is flowing and more than a few Redskins fans are being cursed. The scene outside Tiki Bobs is one of belligerence and enthusiasm. The playoffs are here and the time for the rock solid game plan is now. Keys to victory: A. Blitz their nobody QB Collins often and early. This guy has never played in Qwest Field before, if......

After September's win over San Francisco, in which the Niners managed only nine first downs, we did a little capsule history over on our all-sports blog of the other times in Seahawk history when they'd held an opponent to less than ten first downs. It had only happened seven times before that game--the September game made it eight--and never twice in once season. Now the Hawks have done it twice in once season to the......

As we were ducking out of yet another Garfield blowout loss to Franklin, we joked to our friends, "What if the Huskies and Seahawks lose too! That would sure suck." But the Huskies were only three point underdogs, and the Seahawks favored to beat lowly Arizona, so we laughed the laugh of a man who's about to go late to a dinner party. We were still laughing at halftime of the Husky game, having moseyed......

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......

Seattlest was down in Arizona for spring training last week, and dammit if we didn't just miss what sounds like a hell of a lot of fun with Jerramy Stevens. From The Arizona Republic:A Seattle Seahawks player faces charges of driving under the influence and possession of marijuana after his Tuesday morning arrest in downtown Scottsdale. Jerramy Stevens, the NFL team's starting tight end, was taken into police custody around 2:30 a.m. after he admitted......

--There's a wind advisory in effect for tonight. Good thing you haven't even lugged the generator back into storage yet. --A Wired Magazine blog found the Cthulhu movie former Seattleite Grant Cogswell worked on. They seem less than impressed, but there's some great speculation in the comments. --$10,000 reward for the kidney stolen from the Bodies exhibit? Hell, for that money it's almost worth to pop out one of your own and pass it off.......

--The "War on Christmas" is a blogger's best friend. --Bill O'Reilly is also a blogger's best friend. --Weren't we supposed to be a smart city, or something? What happened to all that? --Pot may be the new #1 cash crop in the U.S., but here in the Northwest ever green holiday materials have got to take over, at least for the season. --"I want it! You aren't helping me find something I want. You......

Seahawks Insider reports that he won't be reporting from Seahawks HQ today: The Seahawks remain without power. Players are at the facility for lifting. Coaches have generator power for the basics: watching video, using computers, running lamps, etc. There will be no media access of any kind. Tuesday is the players' day off, which means no access again. This means we will not be reporting from team headquarters until Wednesday, assuming the team has power......

Yesterday some guys from SFist emailed about a bet of some kind they wanted to make. When the Seahawks beat the 'Niners on Thursday night we'd get to post some gloating thing on their site. That was the gist of it. Well, it blew up in our faces, in play-by-play form, no less. Here's SFist Christopher Rogers reporting for Seattlest: Holy fancy baby Jesus on a Kaiser roll, the 49ers beat the Seahawks? In storm......

Remember last week when it was sunny and crystal clear outside? The skies were blue, and we could make out mountain trails on the Cascades. In the evening when the sun set behind the Olympics and Mt. Rainer was glowing in the pink light, we wondered if there was a more beautiful place to live. Well, that image has been replaced by gray skies and insurance claim agents racing around the region. We are getting......

The Seahawks play in Kansas City on Sunday--their first trip there since 2001. But back when the Hawks were in the AFC West, they played there every year. And usually lost. From 1981-2001, the Hawks went 2-18 in Kansas City. One win was an unremarkable 31-19 victory in the 1999 season. But that other victory--oh, that other victory. Setting the scene: The Hawks were down six points with four seconds to go. Kansas City's Derrick......

The Seahawks' team flight back from Chicago made an emergency landing in one of the Dakotas and it appears to be a medical-related stop. We first suspected Boulware 's concussion, but it turns out that assistant coache Ray Rhodes was feeling sick. Since he has an history of stroke symptoms the plane stopped for him. Apparently many members of the team also entreated the pilot to fly the plane back to Chicago as they had......

--We were feeling like sort of a dork for spending our Friday night at the Garfield/Franklin football game, but less so when current NY Knick Nate Robinson sat down about fifteen feet from us. Robinson's brother Jacque is a senior running back for the Bulldogs. Older brother was there with a few friends. For the most part, people left him alone. We snapped a few clandestine photos of us with the Great in the background.......

Optimists that we are, we'd hyped ourselves into a pretty good mood about the upcoming Husky football season. (Anything to stop from thinking about the Mariners). We thought--hey--the Dawgs start out with four very winnable games (ignoring the Oklahoma game, which they should probably just forfeit now and save state taxpayers the airfare). San Jose State is a slam dunk, Fresno State isn't that good, UCLA is not nearly as good at their 2005......

Honeymoon's over, Seahawks front office. You greedy fools. The Seahawks thought they'd save a little money by designating All-Pro left guard Steve Hutchinson a transition player instead of as an untouchable franchise player. As a franchise player, Hutchinson would have gotten a guaranteed contract and stayed a Seahawk. As a transition player, other teams could offer Hutchison a deal. The Hawks probably figured, hey, we'll save a little money with Hutchinson as a transition player,......

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......

Texas A&M University believes that, because of some game in 1922, only they should be able to recognize football fans as the 12th man. The Seahawks retired the number 12 in 1984. A "12" flag flies over Qwest Field during home games. And Texas A&M doesn't cotton to it. So, in that time-honored, go-get-em, shoot first, independent, manly Texas spirit, they are suing. Pathetic. Are these the same people that fought the Alamo? Davy Crockett......

4th down and six. Here's the game, folks. Redskins down six and driving with three minutes to play. Two wide to the right. Portis alone in the backfield. This is an absolutley critical 4th down conversion if the Redskins want to stay in this game. Motion on the right... Portis takes the ball and heads that way. It looks like he's going to get around the corner! The Seahawks are all bottled up! Oh......

The Cougar men are for real. They beat the Huskies Saturday night, but it didn't feel like an upset to us. It felt like a pretty good team getting some timely shooting and capitalizing on foul trouble (Brandon Roy's) to beat another pretty good team. The Huskies are 1-2 in Pac-10 play. Not encouraging. But the renaissance of WSU basketball is good for the state. We could have three state teams in the tournament this......

National Champs!: The UW women's volleyball team swept favored Nebraska three games to none in the NCAA Championship game. The Huskies didn't lose a game the entire tournament--becoming only the second team to achieve that feat. First-round bye: The Seahawks survived a revitalized Steve McNair and came back to beat Tennessee 28-24, securing the franchise's first-ever first-round bye in the NFL playoffs. The Hawks can clinch home-field advantage throughout the playoffs with one win in......

The Seahawks finally made the cover of Sports Illustrated. Shaun Alexander, on the verge of breaking the all-time rushing touchdown record, is deemed worthy of the honor. The Dec. 19th edition's cover also has a small pic of Gonzaga star and Spokane native Adam Morrison. Northwest, represent! The Mariners have had five players on an SI cover--Gaylord Perry, Ken Griffey, Jr. (four times), Jay Buhner, Randy Johnson, and Ichiro. Griffey's first SI cover was the......

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......

The Seahawks are 6-2. Happy times! Let's let visions of Super Bowl rings and Gatorade showers dance through our heads. Not so fast, say the killjoys at the Seattle Times: The Seahawks were 6-2 in 2003 before going 4-4 to end the season and losing a road game in the first round of the playoffs. They were 5-3 last year before going 4-4 in the second half. Seattle clinched the division on the final day......

Local sports fans, let's just pretend that Saturday never happened and turn our attentions to the happy events of Sunday. The Seahawks dominated another NFC opponent, beating Arizona 33-19. Once again, the team is generating excitement--our novelist friend called from New York City to hear a description of Shawn Alexander's 88-yard touchdown run, the longest in team history, and to fantasize about a long run through the playoffs. Also on Sunday, the Husky men's basketball......

Kanye West, we hear, is one hot rapper hiphop artist. And he samples Ray Charles' "I Got a Woman" on his single "Gold Digger." Thus, in an attempt to appeal to the kids, we will sample the late great Ray on this post. Here we go again She's back in town again I'll take her back again One more time The Seahawks are once again tantalizing us with great play early in the season. Last......

In Western Washington, enjoying the water is a huge summer perk. However, one local company forces its employees to relocate to Eastern Washington during the hottest months of the year. What heartless, megalithic corporation could be so cruel? No, not Ticketmaster. But it is another company that Paul Allen owns—the Seattle Seahawks. While you’re basking on the beach, partying at the pool, lounging by the lake, or supinely stretching near the sluice, the Hawks are......

The National Football League released the Seahawks 2005 schedule yesterday, and it is not a pretty sight. There are several things about the NFL that annoy us. Instant replay is one. The culturally anachronistic ban on end zone celebrations is another. But the most aggravating thing about the league is the way that they create each team’s schedule. An NFL team that finishes first in their division will play other first place teams. Second......

Sounding more like a person leaving an unsatifying relationship than a football player joining a new team, former Seahawks DE Chike Okeafor specified why he chose to sign with the Arizona Cardinals in a press conference quoted in Thursday's P-I. "Over there (in Seattle) on a day-to-day basis I felt alone, not surrounded by enough people that thought like me, felt like me, played like me on a day-to-day basis and love the game......