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. more ›

Come with us back to our teenage years, will you? Then, the only visiting teams that drew any supporters to M's games were the Yankees and the Blue Jays. more ›

When you don't have to worry about Willie Bloomquist getting a hit with your job on the line, well, life becomes a little easier. more ›

The Mariners completed a three-game getting swept yesterday, losing 7-6 to the A's. But the team's marketing department, desperate to unload tickets for a mid-week series vs. the Devil Rays, found a silver lining, as evidenced by this "Mariners Mail" we received this morning: more ›

Forget gay marriage. The greatest threat to that holiest of institutions is Mariner manager Mike Hargrove. His idiotic bullpen management this weekend, summed up in this post at USS Mariner, caused at least one marital breach we know of. There must be others. Says a USS Mariner commenter: more ›

The Mariners mood swing of a season continues tonight in Toronto. The blue and teal are three games under .500 and three games back of the first place A's and Rangers. more ›

Seattlest joined a subdued crowd of about 80 at Greenlake's Kiwi and Kangaroo for this morning's US-Ghana game. more ›

--This “special to the Seattle Times” is a Japanese-speaker interviewing Ichiro. On his off-season meeting with Mike Hargrove: “Some of the things I had to say were quite harsh.” more ›

Federal judge Richard Posner defends President Bush's extra-legal (meaning, surprisingly, not legal at all) spying program thusly:

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act makes it difficult to conduct surveillance of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents unless they are suspected of being involved in terrorist or other hostile activities. That is too restrictive. Innocent people, such as unwitting neighbors of terrorists, may, without knowing it, have valuable counterterrorist information.

A bases-clearing 8th inning double by Willie Bloomquist and six strong innings from Gil Meche led the M's past San Diego in their final spring game in Arizona. more ›