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Washington State University says they've ended negotiations to move the Apple Cup to Qwest Field, saying they couldn't agree with Paul Allen's minions on how to "maintain the neutral-site atmosphere." Allen, a former Wazzu student, is now forced to suffer the inconvenience of flying to the game in his private jet instead of emerging from his secret underground Qwest Field batcave just before kickoff.

The Lingerie Football League's Seattle Mist--twelve nubile, busty, hard-bodied, long-legged...sorry, what were we talking about? Oh, yeah, the Mist are holding a public practice Wednesday from noon to 2 p.m. at Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila. If you are more into dudes, the UW football team has an open practice Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Husky Stadium. You'll have to use a little more imagination, though, as the Dawgs won't be in their skivvies. Also, high school soccer practice schedules can be found here.

The Husky NCAA Tournament train rolls on to round two. Those who picked Mississippi State as their upset special have literally had their brackets thrown to the wolves.

It’s the best thirty-six hours of the year, and for Husky fans the two most stressful will start around 2 p.m. when #4-seed UDub faces #13-seed Mississippi State down in Portland.

After seeing that the Huskies would be playing Mississippi State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, our first thought was, Surprise! Who knew Mississippi was still a state? We just assumed that after the Civil War and Trent Lott, America would just kind of let the lease run out.

Our Staples Center Bureau chief, Ryan, was not amused with the Huskies 75-65 loss to Arizona State on Friday night.

Yesterday the University of Washington introduced their new defensive coordinator/assistant coach former USC coordinator Nick Holt.

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook by preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks' opponent.

It was 28 years ago last night when Howard Cosell broke the news to the world during a Monday Night Football game that John Lennon was gone. Our mom cried.

We are sitting in front of the TV watching the Issaquah-Skyline 4A championship game, still working on a heaping plate of leftovers from last weekend. (Does turkey have an expiration date?) This game was originally scheduled for Saturday, but was moved to accommodate Bellevue, who plays Union in the 3A final. Bellevue played a rescheduled game earlier this week after their bus rolled over on the way to last week's game. Here...grab a plate.

The Seahawks lost 20-17 yesterday to the Redskins and Seattlest concurs with head coach Mike Holmgren's sentiment. He began the post-game presser simply: "Questions?" The Hawks are now 2-9 and the season is over, blah blah blah.

We learned a new word from a recent issue of Wired magazine: popcorning. It's a scientific theory involving "a chain reaction in which the accidental explosion of one nuclear warhead causes others in the vicinity to detonate, releasing lethal radiation for miles in every direction." (We are imagining some hungover crane operator over at the Bangor sub base, hitting this button when she meant to press that one.)

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity to win a college football game, would you capture it, or just let it slip?

This morning, we were down at the local diner having breakfast and mulling the sports weekend which was as lacking in hope as the plate of runny eggs sitting before us. Huskies lost. Cougars lost. Seahawks lost. Even the Husky hoops team lost.

C'mon Huskies. Seriously. We know what you are thinking.

Back in April when our Husky tickets arrived in the mail, we carefully removed the UCLA ones and placed them in a safe place. The return of Rick Neuheisel was to be the game of the year, and we were looking to take out some program-in-free-fall frustration on Slick Rick.

Drat. Three more football games. Three more losses. The Huskies actually looked good before the wheels fell off, losing 39-19 at home to the ASU Sun Devils. The Cougs have shown an ability to score, even if their defense and special teams were non-existent in the 59-28 loss to Arizona. The Seahawks fell to the Miami Dolphins 21-19, continuing the winless streak of West Coast teams traveling to the East Coast this season. TNT beat writer Frank Hughes took advantage of the day off in Miami to report on his visit the country club where Caddyshack was filmed, which helps to salve the wounds of an otherwise bummerish gridiron weekend.

Oh boy.

When is it okay to boo?

We are lazy. While people around us are scurrying up the metaphorical corporate ladder, we sit here in our little corner of Seattlest HQ pining away about the good old days back in college when we scored that blissfully underwhelming job counting all the parking spaces on campus. Best part? We were given three months to complete our slovenly task. Pure procrastinated perfection.

With the retirement of Arizona men's basketball coach Lute Olson, Tacoma Bellarmine Prep star Abdul Gaddy was rumored to be pulling out of his commitment to the Wildcats. Now the Seattle Times is reporting that Gaddy will sign with the Washington Huskies next month. Gaddy is the number two point guard recruit in the nation. Earlier this year, Gaddy's mother, a local FedEx employee, received a phone call from the FedEx CEO urging her son to attend his alma mater, the University of Memphis.

Note to Seattle Times editors: We think you are taking this "Seattle nice" thing a bit too far. Huskies head football coach Tyrone Willingham was fired today, not "forced to resign." When AD Scott Woodward says, "We made the decision to terminate him," you don't get much more fired than that. UPDATE: In the first hours after Willingham's firing, most local news organizations were using the word 'fired' in related stories on their websites. Later in the day, Fox13, KING, KIRO and KOMO all have edited their stories from 'fired' to 'forced to resign'. How cute.

During Husky head coach Tyrone Willingham's press conference today, it was announced that AD Scott Woodward had decided that the Huskies would seek another head coach at the end of this season, while Willingham will remain for the balance of the 2008 season. Discussions between Willingham and Woodward began last week, and continued through the past week and were finalized this morning. Woodward did not consider firing Willingham during the season for reasons of continuity and fairness to the players.

A few years back, we braved a soccer match between two top flight teams in Buenos Aires. A 'super-classico' as they call it. Barbed wire and riot police ringed the field and more than once a cannon was fired. The tension was palpable. Early in the match, the visiting goalkeeper was hit in the head with what the papers later reported was a keychain. Bleeding, the goalkeeper was stitched up on the sidelines and his head was wrapped up Frankenstein style. Later, with the game scoreless, the visiting team was awarded a penalty shot. The coach waved at the goalkeeper, and as the home crowd lost their collective minds, the goalkeeper trotted down, took the shot, scored, then proceeded to jog back to his net, flipping off the crowd the entire length of the field. He spent the rest of the night tucked under his goal, with a big grin, we imagine.

Who is the best quarterback in the state? Matt Hasselbeck? We don't think so. Jake Locker? Sorry Husky fans. You are only half right.

To paraphrase Mitch Albom, the state of Washington and football go together like Wile E. Coyote and TNT these days. At this rate, Jake Heaps will probably sign an early commitment with the Ducks next week.

It's getting ugly out there.

We had to see this coming.

Evidently, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Because his son's teams are geometrically parallel on the plane of defensive craptacularosity.

The headlines pretty much say it all...