Seth over Sports NW just tipped us off to the bad news regarding the Tacoma News Tribune's Seahawks Insider blog, which won't be updated until training camp. Ironically, the blog's tagline reads: "Where there is no off season." *cough* Frank Hughes explains the situation in a post:As you may have heard last week, the chain that owns the paper, McClatchy, announced that it is laying off 10 percent of its work force, which in our......

-- Peter Bagge talks sports complexes. -- "Best Media-Affiliated Sports Blog" two years running? Congrats, Seahawks Insider. -- 100 years after Seattle took the city over, Wallingford transplant Archie McPhee urges you to free Ballard. -- This was no boat accident. -- Can Rainier Avenue drivers be scared straight -- by billboards? -- JetBlue, Expedia. Expedia, JetBlue. -- Ken Jennings discovers the saddest sentence on Wikipedia.......

Via Seahawks Insider: Sep 9 Tampa Bay 1:15pm Sep 16 @Arizona 1:05pm Sep 23 Cincinnati 1:05pm Sep 30 @San Francisco 1:05pm Oct 7 @Pittsburgh 10:00am Oct 14 New Orleans 5:15pm (Sunday night) Oct 21 St. Louis 1:15pm Week 8 BYE Nov 4 @Cleveland 1:05pm Nov 12 San Francisco 5:30pm (Monday night) Nov 18 Chicago 5:15pm (Sunday night) Nov 25 @St. Louis 10:00am Dec 2 @Philadelphia 10:00am Dec 9 Arizona 1:05pm Dec 16 @Carolina 10:00am Dec......

Hot on the heels of revelations of what it's like to share a condo building with former Seahawk Jerramy Stevens (good if you like getting showered with condoms and vomit), comes a bizarre story from the Atlanta home of new Seahawk Patrick Kerney. A woman who was Kerney's houseguest claims she was raped there. She says she met a guy at a bar (The Lodge, in Buckhead), brought him back to Kerney's house, and fell......

Seattlest was down in Arizona for spring training last week, and dammit if we didn't just miss what sounds like a hell of a lot of fun with Jerramy Stevens. From The Arizona Republic:A Seattle Seahawks player faces charges of driving under the influence and possession of marijuana after his Tuesday morning arrest in downtown Scottsdale. Jerramy Stevens, the NFL team's starting tight end, was taken into police custody around 2:30 a.m. after he admitted......

--Sean Penn, book your hotel room now. --Our drunken taunting of Redmond High's boys basketball team: did it inspire them? --Elvis, your Portland State football tickets will be at will call next season. --More Stranger/Weekly warfare. --Grays Harbor College's nickname: Not really offensive, but not really nice. --Former Seahawk Isaiah Kacyvenski is on Oprah today, as part of their "Against All Odds" series. [Via Seahawks Insider]......

Romo sign procured from Qwest Field by our roommate, who was at the game, sitting behind two Dallas fans. For some reason they didn't take their sign with them when they left. Our headline is the reminiscence of the Cowboys' botched 19-yard field goal, by a guy who watched today's Seahawks playoff win at the Kiwi and Kangaroo on Aurora. Mike Holmgren, coaching genius: What do you do if your 238-lb star linebacker tackles......

--The "War on Christmas" is a blogger's best friend. --Bill O'Reilly is also a blogger's best friend. --Weren't we supposed to be a smart city, or something? What happened to all that? --Pot may be the new #1 cash crop in the U.S., but here in the Northwest ever green holiday materials have got to take over, at least for the season. --"I want it! You aren't helping me find something I want. You......

Seahawks Insider reports that he won't be reporting from Seahawks HQ today: The Seahawks remain without power. Players are at the facility for lifting. Coaches have generator power for the basics: watching video, using computers, running lamps, etc. There will be no media access of any kind. Tuesday is the players' day off, which means no access again. This means we will not be reporting from team headquarters until Wednesday, assuming the team has power......

--UW researchers have discovered how to spy on users of the new Nike+ipod sports kit. --Are there any bloggers out there who wouldn't consider a career change to alpaca sales? --The Robotic Gourmand's verdict on Pagliacci pizza: nice crust, tasty sauce, cheese that tastes like it comes from a box. --If you think the Hawks' D.J. Hackett kicks ass, you're right. Seahawks Insider proves it. --Looking for cool greeting cards? Look no further. --"Do I......

- Tonight: Seahawks vs. Packers, 5:30 pm on ESPN and Channel 11. -Thanks to the Rams, a Seahawk win would give them a two game lead in the division. A loss would cause the KJR phone lines to explode. -Quarterbacks Matt Hasselbeck and Brett Favre will play, but Old Man Tobeck's hip is acting up, and he will not. -In Wisconsin they are wondering if Shaun Alexander and former Seahawk turned Packer Ahman Green are......

Three days after the Seahawks' Jerramy Stevens and the Raiders' Tyler Brayton engaged in a groin-kicking contest, the debate rages on--mostly about Stevens' immaturity. Seahawks Insider scared up Raiders' star Warren Sapp's thoughts on Stevens: "This dude has been a piece of (crap) [read: shit] since he got in this league and it's never going to change about him ... [He's] just a punk ... Something's got to change about it but he's going to......

The Pro Football Hall of Fame released a list of 111 preliminary contenders for election in 2006, and they left off newly-eligible Cortez Kennedy. That's Cortez Kennedy who went to 8 Pro Bowls, was on the NFL's All-Decade team of the 90's, and won the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year award in 1992. That's Cortez Kennedy who we idolized and who was basically the only good player the Seahawks had in the 90s.......

Doctors found damage to Matt Hasselbeck's medial-collateral ligament, injured Sunday on what some Hawks say was a dirty hit. He could miss as much as a month. Mike Sando of Seahawks Insider assesses the situation thusly: Every individual is different, so we don't want to rule out an earlier return. But remember when Mike Holmgren suggested Shaun Alexander might miss a couple weeks? They seem to err on the side of caution, which makes sense......

According to Seahawks Insider, Shaun Alexander says his foot doesn't hurt anymore--not after he spent a few days praying about it. Says Mike Sando, the Insider: The foot stopped hurting Tuesday and word spread as Alexander began alerting friends and family. Alexander's brother, Durran, confirmed this today and said his famous brother plans to undergo additional tests today. These stories are rare but not without precedent. Reggie White credited prayer for healing his injured......

When he's not making doody in his diaper, Mike Holmgren is spitting up creamed carrots or screaming for his "binky." Apparently. In March, Mike Holmgren was still blaming the refs for the Hawks' Super Bowl loss (we still contend it was Holmgren's shitty clock management and predictable abandonment of the running attack which costs the Hawks the game). And now we learn of yet another example of infantilism. Mike Sando at Seahawks Insider points us......

Seems like somebody always gets dinged for the year in preseason football, and this year it's Hawks safety (and free agent pickup from Chicago) Mike Green. From Mike Sando's Seahawks Insider: Seahawks S Mike Green is probably out for the season after suffering the dreaded lisfranc foot injury. This can be a career-threatening injury, or at least a career-diminishing injury. Chad Brown was never the same after this injury. The Hawks will have Jordan Babineaux......

No, we haven't said much about Seahawks minicamp. We forgot about Seahawks minicamp, frankly. But nothing could be more important to the handful of guys trying to stick as a sixth wide reciever, a fifth running back, or a fourth QB. One of these is Skyler Fulton, an Olympia product who starred in NFL Europe this year, and is trying to fight through a shoulder injury to stick with the Hawks this year. How's he......

Kirkland police arrested Seahawk defensive end Bryce Fisher on a domestic violence charge last month. Their report (pdf. courtesy of Seahawks Insider, which broke the story) describes an argument over infidelity that devolved into grappling over a cell phone, and Fisher putting his wife in an "arm bar." Being 260 pounds, Fisher apparently hurt her. Offensive tackle Sean Locklear was arrested five days before the NFC championship game for allegedly choking his girlfriend. Another tackle,......

Sometimes history provides the right man for the times. Napoleon for post-revolutionary France. George Marshall for post-war Europe. Don Knotts for post-Roper Three's Company. And, in our modern times, the Tacoma News Tribune's Mike Sando for coverage of the Seattle Seahawks. This man covers the Seahawks like Cookie Monster eats cookies. Sando's got Seahawks crumbs flying out of his mouth, cascading down his front, like C.M., he probably has his own Seahawks covering song...or movie.......

Last week the Minnesota Vikings shanghaied Pro Bowl guard Steve Hutchinson from the Seahawks by including a "poison pill" in his contract--a provision specifying that Hutchinson had to be the top-earning offensive lineman on the team; a provision the Seahawks couldn't match. We wondered how ridiculous these clauses could get. And the Seahawks have answered that question. In their offer to Vikings' receiver Nate Burleson, they included a clause that would make the contract guaranteed......