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In: seahawks
29 Apr 2010It’s official: The clock on Walter Jones’ Hall of Fame induction has begun, and you can expect to see him there in 2015. In a spectacular career that began in 1997 and included nine Pro Bowls, Jones overtook Steve Largent and Cortez Kennedy as the greatest Seahawk ever to play. In recognition of that, the [...]
Pete Carroll and John Schneider, the brain trust of the Seahawks, have now completed six trades in the past two months, all of them involving veteran players. After a couple of iffy-value deals involving quarterbacks in March, the Hawks nailed it on draft weekend in trades that brought them veteran running backs and more. Gone [...]
With word floating around that the Seahawks have been shopping running back Julius Jones in trade for the past few days, it is clear that, as expected, he will not be a Seahawk for much longer. That’s the result of the two trades that brought LenDale White and Leon Washington to the shores of Lake [...]
In: NBA
26 Apr 2010In theory, the Oklahoma City Thunder represent all that is good about the NBA – a young, aggressive hungry team built from scratch that’s willing to do whatever it takes to win; one that remains unfazed by the daunting challenge of being an eight-seed against the defending NBA champs. In reality, I can’t stand them. Rooting [...]
Not a bad first draft for Pete Carroll and John Schneider. They entered the three-day affair with eight draft picks and, after a busy third day, left with 12 players, including two veteran running backs and a veteran defensive tackle. Make it 13 players if you count Charlie Whitehurst, who was acquired pre-draft for a [...]
Now that’s the David Aardsma I’ve grown to have no confidence in. How unbelievable is that? The White Sox beat the Mariners in the bottom of the ninth in back-to-back games? Absolutely ridiculous. A day after Mark Lowe gave up the winning home run to Andruw Jones, Aardsma wasted another awesome start by Mister [...]
After playing it straight the first two days of the draft, the Seahawks started throwing curveballs on Day 3. With four picks in the fourth and fifth rounds, they started the wheeling and dealing John Schneider surely wanted to do in the first couple of days, and in the span of two hours they revamped [...]
Since the Seahawks did not use any of their fourth- or fifth-round picks to move into the third round Friday, they will be busy on the final day of the draft as they try to find some hidden gems. “Tomorrow’s a big day for us,” coach Pete Carroll told NFL Network. “We need to add [...]
Much of the talk about the Seahawks in the weeks leading up to the draft surrounded two questions: (1) Would the Seahawks still consider drafting Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen even though they had traded for Charlie Whitehurst? And (2) would Pete Carroll favor his USC players? Well, the Seahawks did not draft Clausen, but [...]
In: NFL draft
22 Apr 2010First impressions of the first round of the NFL draft: 1) St. Louis: QB Sam Bradford, Oklahoma Comment: The Rams needed a franchise QB. Will Bradford prove to be the guy? 2) Detroit: DT Ndamukong Suh, Nebraska Comment: Suh is probably the best player in the entire draft and will help the Lions immediately. 3) Tampa [...]
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