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2005 Stories by Mike Henderson

• Qwest Field of Dreams

  published December 21, 2005

  In the playoffs, the Seahawks could win their way to the Super Bowl without ever leaving town. More >>

• Seahawks Shake Off the Bird Flu

  published November 30, 2005

  And at 9-2, they seem comfortably bound for the NFL playoffs. More >>

• Seahawk Ramifications

  published November 16, 2005

  Attitudes could be changing. You might have seen, for example, a neighbor peeling from an SUV bumper a "W '04" sticker and wearing an... More >>

• The Seven Wonders of the Sonics

  published November 2, 2005

  We suggested here a year ago that Seattle had become a basketball town, but it still doesn't mean that the NBA SuperSonics can claim a... More >>

• Blue-State Hawks

  published October 12, 2005

  Sources have said that at 3:30 p.m. EDT Sunday, Oct. 2, President Bush told aides he was "within a 47-yard field goal" of nominating... More >>

• Just Like Old Times

  published September 28, 2005

  At some point, somebodyevidently fed the Seattle Seahawks that bromide about the best offense being a good defense. The Hawk offense,... More >>

• Of Humidity and Humility

  published September 14, 2005

  That forever-elusive 4-0 season start remains so for the Seattle Seahawks, but 0-4 is a distinct possibility. A loss Sunday, Sept. 11,... More >>

• A Duel at Safeco Field

  published August 31, 2005

  Let's say we told you that this week Safeco Field featured the four greatest pitchers in Seattle Mariners history. Your obvious... More >>

• A Future Wide-Open

  published August 17, 2005

  Tim Ruskell has distinct ID challenges in that he looks like Karl Rove and believes in intelligent design. The good news: He isn't Karl... More >>

• Catching Mariners Fever

  published August 10, 2005

  Having exhausted all other options at the catcher position, sources say Seattle Mariners General Manager Bill Bavasi is thought to be... More >>

• It Could Be Worse

  published July 27, 2005

  Sunday, July 24, a rain delay in Cleveland kept the Seattle Mariners, then 42-54, off the TV, and we got boxing instead. It gave me time... More >>

• Head Cases

  published July 6, 2005

  It's too bad that the noted Renaissance man Tom Cruise went and debunked psychiatry, because the midseason Seattle Mariners sure could... More >>

• Young Studs

  published June 22, 2005

  One of the promotional throwaways offered to Seattle Mariners fans earlier this year was a terry-cloth logo item some identified as "an... More >>

• The Mariners Wake Up

  published June 8, 2005

  Mike "Hard luck" Hargrove may not have heard the early murmurings of fed-up fans, but when and if he returns home to Perryton, Texas, as... More >>

• Left With Squatch

  published May 11, 2005

  Even if the Sonics are soon to bid adieu to this bound-to-collapse soufflé of an NBA season, maybe you gym gourmands could look... More >>

• The First Seven Games

  published April 13, 2005

  At about 4 p.m. on April 4, the Seattle Mariners were 1-0, boasting their first winning record in a year. That bragging right was... More >>

• We're No. 1!*

  published March 30, 2005

  One way of looking at it is that the University of Washington DribbleDawgs lost the NCAA basketball championship in three games instead... More >>

• Beltre's Numbers

  published March 9, 2005

  Ask kids to name their fave third baseman and most of them, especially the less knowledgeable ones ages 30 and older, probably would say... More >>

• Does Sport Have Game?

  published February 16, 2005

  Upscale sports bistros threaten to proliferate the way pho places have in Seattle. The latter phenomenon hasn't yet ended (I think I heard that... More >>

• The Fab Four

  published February 16, 2005

  Thursday, Feb. 10, was thought by the region's rabid basketball lovers to be an event not equaled since the Beatles reunion, which, now... More >>

• Meet the Fawkers

  published January 12, 2005

  To paraphrase the Rossi posse, we may never know for certain the actual number of drunks in Pioneer Square the morning of Saturday, Jan.... More >>