In Pamplona this week, they're celebrating the festival of St. Fermin. The most famous event, the encierro, played a central role in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: the so-called "running of the bulls" through a narrow, 825-meter passage of narrow streets. YouTube has video of last year's event in Spain; no doubt there will be more images later today. And tonight, in Seattle, our own running of the "bulls" in Belltown. Starting point is the......

The Mariners won again last night by the skin of their teeth, shocking a Boston "Nation" whose presence has been hard to ignore throughout the series. The lowly Mariners are inconveniently getting in the way of a mighty "Nation" that strolled into the Emerald City expecting a sweep, and is now left licking its wounds after losing two straight to one of the most embarrassing teams in recent memory. It’s hard to know what......

Motley Fool's unwrapped their crystal balls -- and they don't see good things for some of Seattle's biggest companies. They're "unleashing our venom on some of the stocks that your fellow Fools think will tank in 2008." Three of their worst stocks for 2008: Washington Mutual, Amazon.com, and Starbucks. Jim Mueller's evisceration makes WaMu look like the worst of the trio: There are a lot of questions without any answers, let alone reasonable estimates. *......

The Seahawks and Bears have never met in the playoffs, however, Seattle teams have danced with the Windy City's finest in the postseason. Huskies beat Illinois in the Second Round of the 2006 NCAA Tournament. Although he is now spending more time on the bench, Justin Dentmon's four point play gave the Huskies a huge momentum boost when it looked like the Illini might turn away Brandon Roy's second half comeback. Mariners swept the White......

Right out of the gate we're going to D up on Jordan, pressure him a bit and maybe force a few turnovers. MARIA CANTWELL for U.S. Senate. And since we finally figured out how to beat the Bulls' fullcourt press we're going to get a lot of transition baskets from Payton driving to the hole and Sam Perkins from the arc. A pull-up jumper over Longley for JAY INSLEE for U.S. State Rep. A......

ESPN's Page Two calls the Sonics' 1987 pick of Scottie Pippen #34 on their list of the 100 worst draft picks of all-time...sort of. 34. Scottie Pippen, Seattle Sonics (No. 5, 1987) Wait ... Scottie Pippen was a great choice! ... except the Sonics (who had acquired the pick from the Knicks for Gerald Henderson) had a deal with the Bulls for the No. 8 pick: They would draft Pippen and trade him to......

Sonics coach Bob Weiss thinks he's finally figured out what's wrong with his 13-17 team--they lack a shot-blocker. ""We got 6-6 Reggie Evans back there and Vitaly at 6-10," Weiss told the Seattle Times. "Neither of them are shot-blockers and they got to feel like Custer back there." (Custer, as is well-known to generations of schoolchilden, was a sub-par shot blocker--he stood less than six feet and had only a 17-inch vertical leap. Though he......

When this week began, wrestler Eddie Guerrero and TV pioneer Ralph Edwards were both alive. No one outside Steel Country had heard of Rep. John Murtha, and Bob Woodward still had credibility. Next week is really only three days, so probably nothing will happen. Thus, we at Seattlest intend to enjoy ourselves over the weekend. Seth's going to the Ballard JazzWalk tonight. Two performers he's looking forward to seeing: Dawn Clement, an inventive young pianist,......

The Sonics' slow start, which included three blowout losses, had players, sportswriters, and local hoops bloggers freaking out. People, people. Calm yourselves. It's only eight games into the season. And, after last night's convincing win over the Celtics, we are beginning to look on the bright side. To wit: --Those blowout losses were against Cleveland, Washington, and Memphis. True, these are not traditional NBA powerhouses, and losing to them sounds bad, but these three teams......