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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.

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 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.)

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.

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.

A few weeks ago, we chronicled the stat-crapular performance of the Washington State football team this season, whose team defense was second-to-worst in the nation. Well, Wazzu can breathe a little easier today, because the Unversity of North Texas, the school with the worst defense in the nation, had 15 players fail drug tests, with more players yet to be tested. Just what college students want...more tests.

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...

Say "New York Giants" to most Seahawk fans, and the conversation will turn to the 2005 OT game at Qwest Field, where the Giants missed three field goals, including two in overtime, and the Hawks prevailed 24-21. Kicker Jay Feely had an epic fail that day, and his holder, punter Jeff Feagles, had the best seat in the house as the trainwreck unfolded.

It could be worse. Somehow. We guess SoDo could have been swallowed up in a giant sinkhole. Or the Mariners could keep playing for another three months. Thankfully, their season ended Sunday, bumbling to a 61-101 record, and our long civic nightmare appears to be over, or at least delayed for a few months.

We were thrilled to see Mad Men get some hardware at the Emmys last night, since it is a fave at the Seattlest crib. In one of the more stunning scenes this season, Don Draper has a confrontation with his blackmailing adultress, where, with a smile, he seductively slides his hand up her dress, then grabs her by her girly-bits (yeah, those girly-bits), and curtly tells her to cut the shit, all the while flashing that dreamboat smile. Powerful, very un-PC, and certainly unexpected.

Since our teams remain winless this season, Seattlest has decided to do the only logical thing to get us out of this funk...Eat! During Sunday home games, over 67,000 people flood into Qwest Field, and many of those fans stop for lunch along the way. Seattlest gets tired of bar food and $8 stadium dogs, so we asked the guys at MSG150, the International District lunch blog, to help us out with some new suggestions. We sat down with MSG150 last week while they reviewed a new restaurant in the ID.

We try to stay positive. We really do. But with our local football teams winless this season, Blayne getting bounced off Project Runway and a certifiable jackass poised to head for the White House (again), we've been dealing with a little self-doubt this week. And listening to lots of Pink Floyd.

This weekend proved that in sports, there's always plenty of room to disagree. One person's trash is another's treasure. It certainly gives us a lot to chew on.

In an attempt to make sense of last weekend's performance by our local gridiron teams, Seattlest is looking to other sources for inspiration.

The Seahawks dispatched with the Oakland Raiders 23-16 in the final preseason game. In recent years, preseason games have become little more than an exercise in injury avoidance, and the Hawks emerged relatively unscathed, although the receiving corps has taken a hit with losses of Engram and Obomanu for extended periods. The Hawks were 3-1 in preseason action andwill begin regular season play on Sunday as they visit the Buffalo Bills.

It's football season, and frankly, it hasn't come quickly enough for us. Since the end of last gridiron season, we lost our NBA team, the Mariners have become little more than a soap opera, and we've become far too familiar with Olympic swimmers. But in football, we are offered a reprieve from all the negativity (until the UW loses their first game, of course). Let's take a look at this weekend's games:

The only team more dominant in the 2008 NCAA Tournament than the Washington State Cougars has been the North Carolina Tar Heels. The Tar Heels averaged 110.5 points in their two games, while the Cougars’ 66 points per game is just as impressive, considering their margin of victory (25.5 in their wins over Winthrop and Notre Dame).

The Washington State Cougars shut down one of the most potent offenses in the Tourney and the Big East Player of the Year, Luke Harangody, to advance to the Sweet 16. This is the first time in more than 65 years that Wazzu has won two games in the NCAA Tournament--last time, they made it to the national championship game. Coach Tony Bennett motivated his players with a little pre-game reminder of what happened last year, the result: the Cougs dominated the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame from start to finish on Saturday, winning 61-41.

Yesterday was a tale of two halves for the Washington State Cougars. Up against a tough No. 13 seed in Winthrop, the No. 4 seed Cougars were struggling at the half-way point tied 29-29. Then something clicked…Wazzu tightened up on defense, started taking quality shots and, 20 minutes later, the Cougs were moving on to the second round of the NCAA tournament with a 71-40 victory.

The NCAA Tournament is underway this morning at Seattlest Sports Headquarters. We could barely sleep last night with eight games tipping off before noon today. This afternoon, the Washington State Cougars launch their campaign at the NCAA Championship at the high time of 4:20pm on CBS. In their first-round game, the No. 4 seed WSU Cougars face the No. 13 seed Winthrop Eagles.