As we wrote earlier, the Huskies play Cal-Berkeley tonight in the first round of the Pac Ten Tournament. They'll be doing it without an injured Jon Brockman, seen by many as the team's best player. However, is he any good? Dusty (Yes): Brockman owned Kevin Love at Hec-Ed, and if you say “but Artem Wallace guarded him” then maybe HE should be conference player of the year. AR-TEM! AR-TEM! AR-TEM.…MVP! MVP! MVP! I’m not......

Today Seattlest welcomes our new sports correspondent to the fold. Drew Milam is a longtime Seattle resident who recently returned to the Emerald City after some time in the Bay Area, and claims to be super tight with fellow Santa Clara alum Steve Nash, Brandi Chastain and NFL referee Mike Carey. No word on if he got the gig because he is a Hillary supporter (pleasing Editor Kim) and a Garfield alum (pleasing Seattlest David).......

My God, it's beautiful outside. When did that happen? Here we are sneezing and coughing and oozing from every orifice on our face when we look outside and Holy Obamalove, Batman! It's really nice out! We recommend leaving your office job early and skipping through Cal Anderson Park (or whatever facsimile exists in your neighborhood). Pick up an iced latte. Go have a margarita. Take your dog and your little sister. Put your hair......

A hundred or so people met at Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill last night, to serenade the full lunar eclipse with Bonnie Tyler's '80s classic, "Total Eclipse of the Heart." The plan was to sing the song for the entire 51 minutes of the lunar eclipse. Sadly, Seattlest could not take the song or the cold long enough to see if they succeeded. all photos by Seattlest. Also don't miss out on all the......

Cal Andersen polar by Norskette, a welcoming image after Seattlest's long trip to the east coast. The Seattlest Flickr Pool is full of welcoming reminders of why we love it here so much - add your own, why don't ya?......

Last year we invoked the name of Cal Worthington as a flimsy excuse to post the amazing "Montgomery Flea Market" ad. Now, we actually have an ad from the master himself. Big ups to Cal for wearing a Mariners jacket (and also for the zebra). There is a definite lack of men on horses leading zebras around in our television advertising today. Worthington, incidentally, is still alive--he turned 87 last month. This terrific profile in......

On the plus side, the basketball and tennis courts at Cal Anderson Park are completely open.......

On a recent Wednesday morning, Seattlest was exiting Vivace on Denny with our clergy mother, happily discussing something secular. As we descended the ramp, Seattlest noticed a group of five thirty- and forty-somethings trailing past, each with a Bible in hand. We grew confused and a little nervous. After all, this has been our haunt for a solid year now and this was the first group of Bible-toting folk we've seen there yet. That would......

Dan Savage and Jamie Pederson aren't the only gay dads in town--apparently there's a whole bunch, and some of them are looking to form a support group. "My partner and I had a baby a few months ago and were surprised at the lack of support, social outlets for Gay men with babies/kids so we decided to get off our ass and start one ourselves," says Larry Nicholas. Good on ya, Larry. They're meeting at......

Seattlest arrived on scene soon after the Capitol Hill Block Party had opened. We wandered, checked out the stage locations and thought about getting a beer, then spotted a booth touting free bottled water. It looked like the booth had something to do with praying to the Earth Spirits or some other new wave white hippy crap, but we decided to take our chances. We asked for a water and oddly enough their were no......

The Pac-10 media pre-season football poll is out--saw it first on the Husky football wonderland that is Bob Condotta's blog--and the Huskies are ninth. USC is a unanimous pick for first. Only Stanford will suck worse than the Huskies, according to the fourth estate. Here's the full list: 1. USC 2. Cal 3. UCLA 4. Arizona State 5. Oregon State 6. Oregon 7. Arizona 8. Washington State 9. Washington 10. Stanford The thing that jumps......

The first thing Mike Hargrove did after quitting the Mariners? He followed Alan Jackson's advice and bought a Ford truck. Jim Moore of the P-I talked to Hargrove's car salesperson:Jerry Korum of Korum Ford in Puyallup read that the Hargroves always said when they retired, they would get a red truck, call it "Retired Red," load up their belongings and drive off into the sunset. Korum called the Mariners and told them he had a......

Last week we made it out to our first Duck Dodge sailboat race of the year -- there was no theme, but it was hot, the upper-80s, and there was a good breeze which made for an actual race as opposed to beer drinking and chip munching punctuated by the occasional slow-motion tack. Notes on the race from Duck Dodge HQ mention that "Shoot the Moon had a kayak that just couldn't stay away from......

We did our best to ignore the shirtless guy's bongo tappy tappy, but when two California poseurs got him to provide a beat for them to rap to (badly), it was time for our person to move along. Just as we were walking around the north end of the fountain thing at Cal Anderson Park, we spotted our unlikely subjects: Two northwest indie-rockers sitting out in the sun? They'll burn for sure! We hung back,......

Two ducks in Cal Anderson's reflecting pool illustrate tried-and-true ways to beat the heat. Cool off in the park's mini-Wild Waves after the jump.......

--Legendary car salesman Cal Worthington divulges something unexpected in this neat little NY Times profile: He never liked the car business. --Impeding Fogey-dom Alert! The Mariners' top prospect, according to USS Mariner, was born in the 90s. --Is Seattle's high cost of living leading to spiritual bankruptcy? --Land a new job by dishing about your current one? Makes sense to Trench Mice. --It may be just a Wednesday night for you, but Japan's already......

East wing of Cal Anderson Park. Right next to the water cooler.......

Cal Anderson Park reflecting pool, 9:10am.......

Last night the Huskies beat, barely, a crappy Cal team in a game that they should've won by 20. Once again, turnovers-a-plenty (16) held the Dawgs back. The Huskies turn the ball over 16.2 times a game, on average. That's worst in the Pac-10, and 248th out of 325 D1 teams. Now, under Romar, the Huskies have always tended to be on the high side with turnovers--never averaging less than 14 per game. But the......

Ever since Jack Roberts died and Cal Worthington disappeared, there's been a definite lack of goofy commercials on Seattle airwaves. If you, like us, are jonesing for silly ads, this ought to well satisfy your cravings. A Seattle transplant working at MTV dubs it "the best music video I've seen in a long time."......

The results for the Baseball Hall of Fame voting are in. Cal Ripken, Jr., and Tony Gwynn make the Hall, Mark McGwire wasn't even close. Jay Buhner got one vote, about 408 short of what he needed to make the Hall. Another former Mariner, Goose Gossage, also fell shy, but by only 21 votes.......

This morning we noticed that someone had dumped some Ultra detergent into the fountain at Cal Anderson Park, which made a bunch of pretty foam, but which perturbed us because we weren't sure if that was getting into our drinking water. The park, as you might already know, is basically a very cool lid for the reservoir that sits underneath it. But we weren't sure how it all worked, so we called the Parks......

Coach Romar changed his lineup tonight (bringing Quincy Pondexter and Justin Dentmon off the bench), and tightened his rotation (eliminating minutes for Hans Gasser, Artem Wallace and Brandon Burmeister). Still, a third straight loss for the Dawgs, 96-87 to Arizona. Since they're unable to beat anyone in the Pac-10, Romar announced a few changes to the Dawgs' remaining home schedule: Sat, Jan 6: Arizona St. Sarasota St. Thu, Jan 25: Oregon Eragon Sat, Jan 27:......

On the last day of September, the Huskies beat Arizona for their third consecutive victory, and the Seahawks were in Chicago, feeling pretty good about inaugurating October against the Bears. Sure, Shaun Alexander was out, but their potent four-receiver attack had rolled over the Giants. But that night the gridiron gods turned their calendars. Maybe theirs had a particularly ugly picture of the EMP, or Ken Schram, or that WTO protester in the turtle suit,......

-Four percent of the country's beer went up in smoke in a warehouse fire in Yakima yesterday. -A new gas tax might be coming, but get your finger away from that "file initiative" button. The proposed tax would only apply to boat fuel. -All of your overdraft fees are being put to good use by Wells Fargo who announced this week that they'll be buying 550 kilowatt hours of renewable energy per year for the......

We're going to have to disagree with this assertion by the good folks at subscription site Dawgman.com. They're talking about the PAT block that helped UW beat Fresno State on Saturday. That is what winning teams do – they make their own luck. No matter how many big returns or screw ups that happened prior to that, they make a big play when they had to and it turned out to be the difference. No,......

USS Mariner updated their "M's Future Forty" list today. It's their exhaustive summary of anyone who could potentially be anyone for the Mariners. And, though the farm system's thinning out as players reach the majors (Adam Jones) or get traded for useful parts (Shin-Soo Choo), the news is good: ...the farm system is doing its job - stocking the major league club with young, effective, cheap talent. A huge portion of the M’s success this......

Pass on local boys Tim Lincecum and Travis Snider, instead selecting RHP Brandon Morrow from Cal, who supposedly throws 99 mph. Watch video of him here. Lincecum went 10th to the Giants. It's rumored that he could be in their bullpen by summer's end. Jackson (Mill Creek) High's Travis Snider went 14th to the Blue Jays.......

We recently got an email from Bradford Bohonus over at VRSeattle that alerted us to the fact that he's updated the site with a new crop of that peculiar kind of wrap-around picture. The screen capture above of Cal Anderson park is not one of the new ones. We just really like that one. These are the new ones. For people who live in Seattle, these pictures are the next best thing to actually......

Strolling through Volunteer Park on our lunch break, we spotted a new skate bowl where the antiquated reservoir used to be. With what looks like a (mini) super-collider laid out on the bottom, it's Seattle grunge meets Seattle hi-tech. Is this a response to the success of Cal Anderson Park, just down the Hill, with the younger set? If so, Volunteer is firing both barrels. Further inspection yielded a new artistic installation "reminiscent" of......