Category: Sports
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Guest Post – The Referee’s Perspective: Sometimes We Know What We Are Doing
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Editor’s Note: Garrett Galbreath is a high school basketball official in Washington State and a Board Member for the Snohomish County Basketball Officials. Since I am someone who has ALWAYS…
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Friday Fantasy Question 4/1
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Imagine you landed in some Fantasy Land where you could take over any major league baseball team in 2016. AND you can bring any one past season from any one…
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Explaining Why the Sounders are Playing Tonight, in 30 Seconds or Less
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The Sounders play their 1st game of the MLS season on March 6. But today is February 23 and they have a home game that matters against a Mexican team…
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Imagining Presidential Candidates as League Commissioners
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I don’t know what made me think about this, but indulge me if you will. If you took the remaining Presidential candidates and put them in charge of the sports…
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Did the MLS Playoff System Work, to the Detriment of the Sounders?
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This may be a stretch.. but I think the MLS playoff structure did its job in the Sounders vs FC Dallas series. – The Sounders had to field the best…
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An Open Letter to MLS and the MLSPU
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Dear MLS Players and Owners: With all due respect, you guys are idiots if you allow this season to start with a strike. I understand both sides of the issue.…
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What is a Winning Football Team Worth to Seattle
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There’s a guy at my gym who fancies himself as somewhat of a philosopher. His podium is the sauna, where he knows he has a captive audience of helpless people…
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What’s Up With the Mariners Spending Spree?
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To get things started, let’s be clear that I have no insight, intelligence or idea why the Mariners are suddenly spending like a drunken sailor on shore leave. $100 million…
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Some Funny Tweets From the Roger Goodell Press Conference
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell held a press conference today, effectively spending 30 minutes saying nothing but, “I’m sorry and we’ll do better.” Thankfully we have the internet, which is not…
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How Bad Will the 2022 Qatar World Cup Team Be?
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The 2022 World Cup has been a controversial subject for a few years now, and will only become more so as more people call upon FIFA to change the location…