Results tagged “usc”

We split our Husky season tickets with friends, and before the season we picked Saturday’s UCLA game, and they got tonight’s USC contest.

After watching Husky quarterback Jake Locker overthrow receiver after receiver in the USC game, Seattlest wondered--could this behavior could be a product of his high school years? It appears so. Our exclusive report has reveals the identities of Locker's receivers when he was quarterback at Ferndale High:

Because we know you want to know, it's your weekly look at what is keeping Seattlest engaged this weekend.

he 1960 Huskies, who will be honored en masse Saturday when the Dawgs play #1 USC, lost only one game and beat #1 Minnesota in the Rose Bowl, the only time the UW's beaten a #1 team.

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.

The Pac-10 media pre-season football poll is out--saw it first on the Husky football wonderland that is Bob Condotta's blog--and the Huskies are ninth. USC is a unanimous pick for first. Only Stanford will suck worse than the Huskies, according to the fourth estate.

Florida may have won their second straight National Championship last night, however, there will be no three-pete in Gainsville. Once National Coach of the Year Tony Bennett leads his Washington Huskies back on the court in November, they might as well mail the trophy directly to Montlake.

No, we can't root for the Huskies, but there are plenty of former kids who a few short years ago were playing in front of sparse crowds at some smelly high school gym, but in the next two days will play ball on a national stage:

The Huskies weren't among the 64 teams picked for the NCAA tournament, then neither were they among the 32 teams picked for the NIT. Down here at Seattlest HQ, stunned silence. After the first two regions were revealed, we sort of joked, "Uh-oh, looks like we didn't make it!" And then, when the final bracket was shown, well, wow...we really didn't make it!

After routinely destroying our alma mater, unleashing the obscenity that is Kenny G, and sending their best-ever athlete to rival Arizona, Franklin High is finally doing something for us. Franklin's Venoy Overton, ranked the 26th-best point guard among the nation's high school seniors, rescinded his commitment to USC today and will be a Husky.

Coach Romar changed his lineup tonight (bringing Quincy Pondexter and Justin Dentmon off the bench), and tightened his rotation (eliminating minutes for Hans Gasser, Artem Wallace and Brandon Burmeister). Still, a third straight loss for the Dawgs, 96-87 to Arizona.

Seattle's own Jimi Hendrix--an early proponent of Pac-10 pride--congratulates USC on their Rose Bowl win from beyond the grave (via AOL Sports).

The weather outside will be frightful, but the hoops will be f-ing delightful at Bellevue Community College Saturday for the Les Schwab Hoops Challenge.

On the last day of September, the Huskies beat Arizona for their third consecutive victory, and the Seahawks were in Chicago, feeling pretty good about inaugurating October against the Bears. Sure, Shaun Alexander was out, but their potent four-receiver attack had rolled over the Giants.

Torontoist visits the site of a new Frank Gehry structure, stalks "the elusive Bahamas streetcar", and watches Tom Green get surgery.

We were listening to KJR's "Husky Honks" on our way into work today. It's fun to listen to Husky talk now, there's optimism for the first time since--we don't know...'02?

We're going to have to disagree with this assertion by the good folks at subscription site Dawgman.com. They're talking about the PAT block that helped UW beat Fresno State on Saturday.

This is the third time we've seen Dusty Warren's one-man show, All-American Push Up Party, and it's still funny as hell. The thing's a masterpiece. As our companion noted, "not a single joke falls flat." It's true.

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).

Louisiana State University and Glen "Big Baby" Davis, who collectively made it to last year's Final Four, will play the Huskies at Hec Ed on December 20th. This is the big non-conference game the Huskies needed on their schedule to quiet the other big baby, Lute Olson.

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?

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.

The Cougars play at USC this weekend. Wazzu has some talent on offense, and an experienced defense.

To demonstrate what the USC Trojans will do to the Huskies during Saturday's football game we have taken this ordinary cantaloupe and let our good friend Tusky here stomp all over it. You see Tusky is an 5,000 pound Indian elephant, and is turning the cantaloupe into a flat pile of mush.

Evidently, the Husky football team's 1-10 season caused many fans to cancel their season tickets. So for the first time in Seattlest's memory (which stretches back to the Michael Jackson days), the Huskies are offering reserved ticket game plans.

With the number three overall pick in the annual Major League Baseball draft, the Mariners selected Jeff Clement, a catcher from USC.

Seattlest never thought it would say this, but here goes: Thank you, Jeff Cirillo.