Central Washington plays Western at Qwest Field this Saturday, unremarkable for non-alumni except for the fact it marks the first time real teams with winning records from the state will play in Seattle this year. In seasons past, the Cascade Cup has been of one the greatest under-the-radar tailgate parties in Seattle, since both schools draw big crowds to the neutral downtown location. Recently Qwest Field’s north parking lot banned real tailgating, driving a stake......

Kim is relieved the debate is actually going to happen. She'll be watching with friends tonight before working all weekend. Saturday, she'll take a break for a quiet night out, and then she'll close the weekend off getting funky in the balcony of Jazz Alley with Maceo. You can take the boy off the farm, but...MvB will be spending Saturday in a barn, hauling away old equipment, so Sunday he'll be recovering at Top Pot,......

It seemed like every other person we passed had a maroon "Oklahoma" t-shirt tucked into their shorts and a smug air about their head region when we were walking around campus before the UW game on Saturday. By our reckoning (UCLA beat Tennessee, BYU beat UCLA, Washington was a terrible call away from taking BYU to overtime) OU were maybe going to get more of a game than they expected. And then they played......

Time magazine claims, "You can't swing a dead cat this time of year without hitting a Top 10 List." Never one to waste a perfectly good dead cat, we decided to take a swing and create a Top Random-Number Shows Seattlest Saw This Year. And now, without any further ado, here's how your favorite bloggers broke down the year: According to Dante, everything else pared in comparison to Daft Punk at WaMu Theater 7/29/07. OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!......

It's cool that Drew Carey has been the face of the new Seattle MLS team, appearing at the G&D and showing up in the booth for Monday Night Football to talk about the team's plans in Seattle, but he's kind of a Cleveland guy. Couldn't we get a Seattle name that's about on par with Carey? Like....oh god there is no Seattle name on par with Drew Carey. Long live Seattle guy Drew Carey! And......

Seattlest left Cooper's Alehouse at 10:40 last night with a brand new bucket, part of our team's prize for coming in 5th place. And we wondered why we'd never managed to check out their trivia night when we lived within walking distance. It was a good quiz. Cooper's quiz is scheduled for 8:45 Tuesday nights, though last night's kicked off at 9:00. It's 40 questions, uncategorized. Teams trade answer sheets for scoring. After about......

Former Husky coach Don James--a hero round these parts for leading the Dawgs to the Rose Bowl five times in his reign--is voting in a new college football ranking, the Master Coaches Survey. James and 15 other Hall of Fame coaches get together and rank the top 25 teams (and you can trust them more than those Poindexters at the AP). But these former coaches don't just want to sit in their ivory coaching......

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 Washington Huskies have scored their first points in the Fulmer Cup, an annual competition to see which college football team is the lawbreaking-est. The indispensable, hilarious college football blog Every Day Should Be Saturday started and adjudicates the Fulmer Cup, awarding points for every legal run-in by a team's players, and tallying them at the end of the year. (The cup is named for Tennessee coach Philip Fulmer, whose players may be volunteers, but......

Back before college football got completely screwed up, the Huskies were a national power. You laugh, but it's true. They even won a National Championship in 1991, and the greatest player on that team was Steve Emtman. In fact, he was the probably the best player in college football that season. However, since defensive lineman don’t win Heismans, he settled for the Outland Trophy and Lombardi Award. Emtman was the overall first pick in the......

Every once in a while, Seattlest likes to think that we're living a fairly fulfilled life, what with family nearby, friends we care about, and the occasional prank phone call to this one guy who punched us in fourth grade. Thank God that the Rhodes Scholars program exists to remind us that we are basically a small piece of shit swirling around in the toilet bowl of life. They announced the 2007 Rhodes Scholars today,......

Sports Column Template From: Sports Columnists of America Instructions for use: After a big home win by a formerly moribund college football program. This team is different. Older. More mature. Much more resilient. These [name of team (plural)] aren't like their recent predecessors, so willing, so quickly, to pack it in, to quit in the face of adversity. [have intern throw in a few paragraphs of details from the game here] This was the [sun-kissed/blustery,......

College football coaches, who gave the Huskies their only National Championship back in 1991, have bestowed upon the current team a very special honor—Also Receiving Voteites. A glance under the most recent USA Today Coaches Football poll shows that the Huskies have received three votes. Meaning some coach voted them 25th and another one voted them 24th, three coaches voted them 25th, or a single coach voted them 23rd. Either way Ohio State's Jim......

Fall? No. College football season. We hate it. Specifically, we hate the Cougar/Husky rivalry. Why? Because we don't care. We went to a microscopic liberal arts college in the midwest. But we hear about it anyway. It's easier to avoid Packer-themed jibber-jabber in the shadow of Green Bay than it is to avoid Dawgs and Cougs exchanging antique insults and warmed-over jokes originally told about more interesting teams. We're sick of mass emails sent to......

We love Husky football, even when the team is in the midst a "victory deficient stage," we still get excited for games against Top 20 teams. Which is why we are clearing our schedule to watch the purple and gold get absolutely stomped in Norman tomorrow when they face the number 10 ranked Oklahoma Sooners. The game will be a rematch of the 1985 Orange Bowl in which the Huskies and the Sooner Schooner beat......

With the Husky football starting this weekend, we thought it would be a good time to preview the season. Helping us out are our two college football experts and die-hard Husky fans, Happy Times Carl and Deputy Downer. Happy Times Carl: Welcome back college football, how we have missed you so. As soon as I am done here, I am grabbing my sleeping bag and heading down to Montlake, because I cannot wait for......

Update! The CraigsList robber of San Jose State, former player Ellis T. Jones (they kicked him out of the program after his arrest) got some special recognition from exhilarating college football site Every Day Should Be Saturday, in their "Fulmer Cup" rankings--a "competiton" ranking college football programs by the number of illegal acts their players commit. Finally, the real champion here: Ellis T. Jones, the former San Jose State player who allegedly enticed bargain hunters......

DCist is screwed in the event of an oil crisis. Not that we're not all screwed in the event of an oil crisis, just D.C. is more screwed. Don't sell your car yet, District resident, a cabbie can kick you to the curb if he doesn't like your address. Not even Metro can save you now. Londonist experiences the London of the future through the wonders of 3D modeling, but while the 3D guys are......

National Champs!: The UW women's volleyball team swept favored Nebraska three games to none in the NCAA Championship game. The Huskies didn't lose a game the entire tournament--becoming only the second team to achieve that feat. First-round bye: The Seahawks survived a revitalized Steve McNair and came back to beat Tennessee 28-24, securing the franchise's first-ever first-round bye in the NFL playoffs. The Hawks can clinch home-field advantage throughout the playoffs with one win in......

To demonstrate what the USC Trojans will do to the Huskies during Saturday's football game we have taken this ordinary cantaloupe and let our good friend Tusky here stomp all over it. You see Tusky is an 5,000 pound Indian elephant, and is turning the cantaloupe into a flat pile of mush. This is the same fate that awaits the UW tomorrow afternoon in Husky Stadium. The Trojans are currently the number one team in......

In meeting college football fans in our travels over purple mountains majesty and through amber waves of grain, we have steadfastly maintained this position: there is no better place to watch a college football game than Husky Stadium. However, we can say this no longer. For though the sun still glistens off of Lake Washington, and the Cascade foothills still loom on the hazy horizon, Husky Stadium has one major drawback: The Huskies play there.......

The National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NAMBLA, is the oversight body for college sports. Run by college presidents, it tries to ensure the integrity of the student/athlete experience. Towards this end, it has instituted many stupid rules. For example: say you are a college football player, and Seattlest is a college coach. If we see you on the side of the road with your car out of gas, we couldn't give you a ride to......

There are a plethora of local sporting events this weekend--one could even construct a little sports day, if so inclined. It's going to be too nice to have a weather-related excuse to watch the NFL draft. Actually, there is no excuse for watching the NFL draft. So here's the Seattlest picks: 9am--UW Crew vs. California, at the Montlake Cut. The Huskies and Golden Bears have been competing annually since 1903 to determine which school's......