A conversation with Seattle
Keeping you connected to what matters. Thy name is clock. Alarm clock. Good morning, Monday. New sound record attained at … Continue reading The Weekend Debrief: Seattle Wins, Jerry Comes to Town, and McGinn Loves Pedestrians
Change.org is now the home of a petition asking that Major League Soccer “evaluate” the performance of referee Ricardo Salazar. The petition went up sometime after Salazar pulled out a red card for the Sounders’ Zach Scott in Wednesday night’s game against Real Salt Lake. Continue reading Sounders Fans Sign Petition for MLS to “Evaluate” Ref Salazar
Inspired by countless Geico commercials, the Woodland Park Zoo is starting their youngsters on a regimen of soccer training, in hopes that they will earn athletic scholarships. According to a zoo news release, nine pre-college animals will begin training this Tuesday. Continue reading Woodland Park Zoo to Train Animals in Soccer (Photo Gallery)
Traffic was going to be a little hinky at times anyway this weekend, thanks to Saturday Huskies (12:30 p.m.) and Sounders (7:30 p.m.) games, but WSDOT is also going to be working on the 520 bridge, which is slightly less old than its namesake, Albert Rosellini, who died this week at 101.
Well after the Huskies play, at 8 p.m., both directions of the SR 520 floating bridge and highway and all ramps between Montlake Boulevard and I-405 will be closed until 5 a.m. Monday. Continue reading The Autumn of Our Traffic Backup Discontent
You could watch 100 soccer games and not see a goal like the one Roger “The ‘Stache” Levesque scored yesterday. And, in fact, the goal came in the Sounders’ 100th game, and one of their most thrilling.
It started boringly enough: Under pressure from Sounders forward Fredy Montero, New York Red Bulls defender Jan Gunnar Solli passed the ball back to goalie Greg Sutton. Continue reading Sounders Score on Epic Goalie Fail
What I wouldn’t give to be a Portlandia writer. You sleep till 2 p.m., then pull up The Oregonian on your iPad, and see, for example, that a Portland insurance company is having an employee art show. Look: A “whimsical” bonsai tree made out of wine corks! Cut, paste in to Final Draft, write in a cameo for James Mercer, episode finished. Honestly, finding material for that show is about as hard as finding seagull shit at Ivar’s Fish Bar. Continue reading Seattle Companies Export Humor, While Portland Puts a Bird On It
Sounders midfielder Steve Zakuani was dribbling innocuously up the left sideline, in his own half, early in the third minute of Friday night’s game at Colorado, when the Rapids’ Brian Mullan raced towards him and slid into Zakuani at full speed. Zakuani’s right foot was caught beneath Mullan’s body, so his lower leg caught the force of the impact which broke his right fibula and tibia–a.k.a. Zakuani’s entire right lower leg. Continue reading Sounders Steve Zakuani’s Leg Gruesomely Snapped by Vicious Tackle