Results tagged “warriors”

The Seattle SuperSonics played their first regular season game 41 years ago today, on October 13, 1967, against the San Francisco Warriors. They lost by 28 points. Happy Anniversary, Oklahoma Sonics! And may we be the eleventy-billionth blogger to say an official goodbye.

We haven't read a ton of military history, but we've read enough to know that the most grievous mistakes by battle commanders aren't those that lead to defeat, but those that are made in the wake of victory. The biggest mistakes are by commanders who, having driven their opposition into full retreat, fail to press the advantage, chase the retreaters down, and destroy them. To cite just one example, had Confederate General P.G.T Beauregard ordered...

Seattlest expects another round of the ever-fascinating debate on Seattle identity: Greater Seattle vs. Lesser Seattle, mossback vs. booster, REI vs. Macy's, McQ vs. Singles. Lusty Lady vs. Four Seasons (oh wait -- they struck a balance). Pick your thesis and antithesis.

National NBA basketball correspondent Jason McDonald shares his thoughts on the #8-seed Warriors' defeat of #1-seed Dallas

The only things hotter than Oakland’s NBA team are its freeways [rimshot…crickets].

Yet another postponement, and the new plan is to try to play a doubleheader on Monday, beginning at 10:05 am PST. The M's have a day game in Boston on Tuesday, so this would mean they'd play 3 games in about 28 hours. Not good.

This morning as we were preparing for another exciting day of basketball, we were thinking back to one year ago this Saturday, when we still reeling from the most painful loss our sports fan lookin' balls had ever seen. It was about then when we caught the end of the Division II Championship Game-- Barton vs. Winona State. Hey, we live on Winona Ave. Go Winona State!

After Wired ran a story documenting the GoogleCenter of the United States a bunch of ists jumped on the opportunity to figure out their own middle. Gothamist, Chicagoist, Bostonist and Seattlest all zoomed in on their creamy GoogleCenters. A crack cartography team is hard at work determining the GoogleCenter of the Ist-a-verse as you read this...

Greg Nickels made Rolling Stone. Is his new disc out? No. Is he being heralded as one of our country's leading environmentalists? He is! He's one of the "Warriors and Heros: Twenty-five leaders who are fighting to stave off the planetwide catastrophe." Uh, no mention of his significant role in the killing of the green line, but the magazine loved his motions towards Kyoto. Seattlest had an opinion of the mayor's Kyoto commitment back in February: