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• So excited to hear about Cap. Hill's quest to get hipsters fat opening of Captain Black's. We've always wanted to know what came first, the chicken or the waffle?
• Nick Montana -- Joe Montana's son, rated one of the top high school quarterbacks in the nation --says he'll attend college at UW.
• Scoot, scoot! All you scooters get your little 50cc engines running for the second annual All City Scooter Day, coming up this Saturday.

Now that Ken Bone has been named the head coach at Wazzu, we implore the students to name their section The Bone Zone. They will definitely surpass the Cameron Crazies and Romarville. Oh, and we demand full credit at all times.

If Tony Bennett leaves his heart in Pullman, it'll be because an enraged Coug fan spotted him, carved it out, and stuck it on a wall as a warning. WSU basketball coach Bennett, the only man to take the perennially terrible Cougars to the NCAA tournament's Sweet 16, is now head coach at the University of Virginia. Writes the Spokane Spokesman-Review's Vince Grippi: "The players are shocked, the administration is shocked, the assistant coaches are shocked." Writes Jeff Nusser of CougCenter: "All that stuff about Tony loving Pullman and wanting to build something special? About asking the administration for seven years? Apparently, it was all a bunch of s***."

Oh frabjous day! Callooh callay! It's a very special morning here at Seattlest as we unveil a sports post from none other than Seth Kolloen, a man who has been called Seattle's worst sports blogger. We're not middle-of-the-pack here at Seattlest. We go big or go blog. Enjoy.

Ready For The Apple Cup by DownWithPants

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

We're going to drop some locals-only wisdom on you, which Seattle natives rarely if ever do sober...so listen up.

As a Husky fan, Seattlest could simply not sit quietly as this story made the local news rounds. Pullman, Wash., home of Washington State University, has approved a new city ordinance to make fist-fighting a civil infraction. The ordinance passed Tuesday and will go into effect next week. After which, if you happen to get caught in fisticuffs in Pullman, expect to pay a $250 fine.

The Seattle Seahawks announced this morning the signing of Northwest native and starting cornerback Marcus Trufant. The Wilson High (Tacoma) and Washington State University alum inked a long-term deal last night, according to the Seahawks, for $50.2 million over six years. Trufant was previously designated as the Seahawks' franchise player, which would have resulted in a one-year $9.5 million salary, but luckily a long-term deal was locked up.

The brackets are set for the men's NCAA Tournament--expect productivity at work to continue on a downward spiral as the week goes on. Carve out a couple hours in your schedule in the next three days to research and fill out your brackets for your office pool. Rick Neuheisel knows what we’re talking about. Or, you could select your winners based on mascots, school colors, or blind guessing. Those always seem to work for some lucky S.O.B. in the office pool.

The Cougs are still missing that killer instinct. Up 20 points and closing in on half time, Wazzu let the Oregon Ducks whittle away at the lead. With the 75-70 victory, Washington State will seek revenge against the Stanford Cardinal, who beat Arizona last night to advance to the semi-finals of the Pac-10 tournament.

The AP's Odd News department may as well just set up a bureau in Pullman. Last week, a Wazzu student gets busted for pot twice in one night.

Tony Harris was a star basketball player at Garfield High School and Washington State University. After college, he played in a variety of international pro leagues: The Philippines, South Korea, Brazil.

When you're seen as the number-two city and number-two university in the state you can either embrace it or try and avoid the notion.

Swoop, the mascot of Eastern Washington University, was stomped outside a bar Sunday night and briefly detained by none other than police chief Gil Kerlikowske. Apparently. Reports the Seattle P-I:

Lt. Kenneth Hicks, shift commander at the precinct that includes Pioneer Square, was leading Kerlikowske on a closing-time tour of the club district when the senior officers witnessed a man-on-eagle fracas, according to police documents.

Continue reading "With So Much Drama From the SPD, It's Kinda Hard Bein' S-Dubya-O-O-P"

Whitman College: Jeffrey Sachs, economist and author

So. The Huskies. The team that's our city's best chance at a 2007 championship trophy, and they can't even beat the Cougs. Historical fact: No team has ever lost to Washington State University and gone on to win the championship of anything.

For those of you that still harbor the grudge that science is boring and painfully complex, Seattlest would like to introduce you to the buckyball. Not only is this little sucker given a name that is impossibly irresistable, it is also potentially one of the more important scientific discoveries of the past 20 years (yielding a Nobel prize for its co-discoverers in 1985). Oh fine, back to the name: nature is apparently teeming with close cousins to the buckyball, including buckytubes, buckybabies, and fuzzyballs. Seattlest couldn't make that up if we wanted to.

Google's released Google Trends, which compares the frequency of two searches. After trying out the obvious, (black beats white, dogs beat cats, and good obliterates evil) we tried a few Seattle-centric battles.

Exactly one week after Randy Johnson threw the first no-hitter in Mariner history against Detroit, a 26-year-old rookie made an auspicious Mariners debut at Tiger Stadium.

After Mother Nature decided to make up for an unusually mild winter with a sudden few weeks of cold and rain, the sudden appearance of actual spring weather has had Seattlest keeping an eye out for every sign of spring we can find.