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WNBA Western Conference

  • Food

    February 8, 2012

    What Seattle Drinks

    Boldface names tell us what they order and where.

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    KeyArena, Not Good Enough to Keep Sonics in Seattle, Is Good Enough to Get Seattle U Into the WAC

    ​In explaining the decision to invite Seattle University to join the Western Athletic Conference, WAC commissioner Karl Benson specifically cited the team's home stadium of KeyArena as a reason he felt the school was worthy. Three years ago, when the Seattle SuperSonics left Seattle, that sam ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2011

    Seattle Named "Most Miserable Sports City" in the Country . . . Again

    ​Things were supposed to change this year. The Seattle Storm won the WNBA Championship, the Seahawks bagged a playoff game, and, most importantly, LeBron James left Cleveland. All this conspired to suggest that Seattle might finally be bumped off the top of Forbes Magazine's list of "Most Mise ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    The Five Best Days for Seattle Sports in 2010

    ​Yesterday we gave you the Seven Worst Days for Seattle Sports in 2010, a list that was unsurprisingly top heavy with Mariners misadventures. Today we try to do the opposite: count down the best days for Seattle sports in the past year. And man was today's list a lot harder to compile.

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    Giants World Series Win Makes Three Microsoft Execs Who Now Own World Champion Teams

    ​When Brian "Fear the Beard" Wilson threw the final pitch of the 2010 World Series last night--a rocket straight down the pipe by Nelson Cruz--Giants fans worldwide rejoiced at the club's first championship title since they moved west in 1958. And while it hasn't been a complete fairytale year ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    President Obama Makes Compulsory Congratulatory Call to Seattle Storm

    ​One of the perks of winning a sports championship - besides the potential to be named your city's most successful franchise - is the congratulatory call from the Baller in Chief. President Obama called members of the Seattle Storm earlier today to compliment them on winning their second WNBA ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    Seattle Storm Win Second WNBA Championship

    ​The Seattle Storm defeated the Atlanta Dream 87-84, completing a playoff-long sweep and clinching the team's second WNBA championship. The Storm, who last won the title in 2004, were led by Finals MVP Lauren Jackson, who had 15 points and nine rebounds. And that sound you hear is the noise ma ... More >>

  • News

    September 15, 2010
  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    The Highlight Video Seattle Storm Fans Shouldn't Watch

    ​You know that guy who loudly insists that women suck at sports? Well imagine if that guy cut a highlight reel of the Seattle Storm's Game 1 victory in the WNBA Finals. What you'd have is Deadspin's "patronizingly edited" clip of the "NBA's lady auxiliary." To check out the video scored by Her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    Meet Two of Seattle Storm's Biggest (And Tonight Happiest) Fans

    ​Avreayl Jacobson didn't have a girls basketball team to play on when she was a kid. So she checked out a book on basketball from the library and practiced hook shots over and over by herself. Well those days are long gone. Tonight Jacobson and partner Linda Giddings, decked out in Cherokee r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    Sue Bird, Michael Jordan & the New Seattle Sports Paradigm

    ​It's a rare thing in sport when a crowd emits a high-pitched squeal of the sort heard at a Justin Bieber concert. This happened during the Seattle Storm's thrilling ictory over the Atlanta Dream in the 2010 WNBA Finals' inaugural game Sunday afternoon--during the national anthem, multiple tim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2010

    Seattle Storm Is the Winningest Team In City History, Says WNBA; Suck On That, Seahawks

    ​It's a crime, really, that there were any empty seats at all in Key Arena tonight as the Seattle Storm dominated the Phoenix Mercury 82 - 74 in the first game of the WNBA Western Conference Finals. No chance Pete Carroll will give you anywhere near that great a season this year.

  • Arts

    July 21, 2010

    The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events

    ​It's a crime, really, that there were any empty seats at all in Key Arena tonight as the Seattle Storm dominated the Phoenix Mercury 82 - 74 in the first game of the WNBA Western Conference Finals. No chance Pete Carroll will give you anywhere near that great a season this year.

  • Calendar

    July 14, 2010

    Storm vs. Phoenix Mercury

    ​It's a crime, really, that there were any empty seats at all in Key Arena tonight as the Seattle Storm dominated the Phoenix Mercury 82 - 74 in the first game of the WNBA Western Conference Finals. No chance Pete Carroll will give you anywhere near that great a season this year.

  • Arts

    June 2, 2010

    Summer Guide Events Calendar: Beer, Pride, and Rollergirls

    A selection of the season's major happenings.

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    Forbes Says Seattle Is Miserable for Sports, But It's Not (If You're Into Darts and Beer Pong)

    Robert HeckmanSeattle sports don't suck. This (Seattle area) man kicked ass in international dart competitions last year. ​Yesterday Forbes declared Seattle the most miserable sports city in America. To justify that designation, the magazine listed Seattle's many athletic disappointments over ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    Tacky Sonics Merchandise Continues to Haunt Unsuspecting Seattle Basketball Fans

    If only Howard Schultz had cut a few more of these.​Voracious contributor Mike Lewis was hanging in The Streamline Tavern, the watering hole near Key Arena he co-owns, when a regular came in with a surprise discovery. Let's let Mike pick it up from there:It was a slow night and I was behind th ... More >>

  • News

    April 28, 2010

    Google Strikes Back?

    How might the search giant retaliate for the Seattle Storm's alliance with Bing?

  • Arts

    April 28, 2010

    The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

    How might the search giant retaliate for the Seattle Storm's alliance with Bing?

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    Microsoft Beats Google in Critical WNBA Branding Battle

    Microsoft and the Storm--partners in decision engineering!​Just like in Europe, corporate logos are increasingly common on the jerseys of our pro athletes. Xbox360 Live has been slapped on the chests of the Sounders for several seasons, and now our WNBA franchise is joining the Microsoft famil ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 21, 2010

    Storm vs. Phoenix Mercury

    Microsoft and the Storm--partners in decision engineering!​Just like in Europe, corporate logos are increasingly common on the jerseys of our pro athletes. Xbox360 Live has been slapped on the chests of the Sounders for several seasons, and now our WNBA franchise is joining the Microsoft famil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    Sue Bird Makes Less Than Many City of Seattle Middle Managers

    ​ Those who follow professional sports are familiar with the term "league minimum" -- i.e., a still-exorbitant salary that the barely-good-enough make to ride pine on a given team. "League maximum," however, is something of an unheard-of term -- unless you're familiar with the WNBA's pay scale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    Tough Break (of the Back) for the Storm

    ​Departure of the Sonics notwithstanding, pro hoops in Seattle has been looking up lately. The city's remaining professional basketball team--the beloved Storm--have the WNBA's third-best record and are on a 5-game winning streak, stoking hopes of another championship. (They won their first in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    You Still Care About Basketball, Seattle, Right?...RIGHT?!?!?

    Just about everybody's feeling the recession right now, even the NBA, whose pool of free agent money has dried up to the point where sixth-man-of-the-year candidate (and UW and Rainier Beach grad) Nate Robinson is considering playing in Greece next season for a team that might be willing to pay him ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    Cameron Dollar, Future "Coaching Superstar," Gets Some National Ink

    Last week, Seattle-based ESPN writer Jim Caple interviewed Storm star Sue Bird and praised M's ace Felix Hernandez. This week, he visits with new Seattle U. men's basketball coach Cameron Dollar. UCLA Bruin fans remember Dollar as the point guard in the team's 1995 championship game in Seattle. Husk ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    Your Weekend Bjork & Artopia Planner

    The weekend begins with Bjork in a concert documentary reviewed by Sara Brickner: For all the sad Bjork fanatics who missed her 2007 Volta tour, or for those who were there and want to relive the experience over and over again, here's the documentary, Voltaic. One evening was filmed in her hometown ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2009

    Pour on the Pride: Seattle's 10 Gayest Meals

    O Seattle! City of proud rebels and lovers! City of progressive politics and regressive taxes! May you always find the rainbow after your rains. In honor of this year's Pride Week, all of us at Seattle Weekly have been reflecting on the many things that make us proud to be LGBTQQI and hetero compan ... More >>

  • Arts

    June 24, 2009

    The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Notable Events

    O Seattle! City of proud rebels and lovers! City of progressive politics and regressive taxes! May you always find the rainbow after your rains. In honor of this year's Pride Week, all of us at Seattle Weekly have been reflecting on the many things that make us proud to be LGBTQQI and hetero compan ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2009

    PrideFest

    O Seattle! City of proud rebels and lovers! City of progressive politics and regressive taxes! May you always find the rainbow after your rains. In honor of this year's Pride Week, all of us at Seattle Weekly have been reflecting on the many things that make us proud to be LGBTQQI and hetero compan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2009

    Your Weekend Storm & Arts Advisory

    The weekend begins at KeyArena, where our Damon Agnos says you should check out the Storm vs. Lynx game tonight: The Storm's Lauren Jackson is healthy and killing it, as she always does when she's healthy. Last year, she was hurt, but the year before that she won the WNBA scoring title. The runner- ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 17, 2009

    Lynx @ Storm

    The weekend begins at KeyArena, where our Damon Agnos says you should check out the Storm vs. Lynx game tonight: The Storm's Lauren Jackson is healthy and killing it, as she always does when she's healthy. Last year, she was hurt, but the year before that she won the WNBA scoring title. The runner- ... More >>

  • Arts

    June 17, 2009

    The Weekly Wire: The Week's Notable Events

    The weekend begins at KeyArena, where our Damon Agnos says you should check out the Storm vs. Lynx game tonight: The Storm's Lauren Jackson is healthy and killing it, as she always does when she's healthy. Last year, she was hurt, but the year before that she won the WNBA scoring title. The runner- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2009

    "Stormin' the Lake" to Celebrate a Decade

    To celebrate their 10th anniversary, Seattle's only remaining professional basketball team, the Storm, will be hosting an all-out gala at Green Lake on Saturday. With face-painting, dance lessons, locker-room signs, hoop-shooting, snow-cone making, and a water-balloon toss, it's the sort of shindig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    Storm Re-Sign Lauren Jackson

    Those of you who follow the Seattle Storm will likely be pleased to hear that the team re-signed star forward Lauren Jackson today. Jackson's a two-time WNBA MVP and is only 27, but is coming off her second ankle surgery, one that followed her participation in the Beijing Olympics, causing her to mi ... More >>

  • News

    November 5, 2008

    A Fabulous Sports Babe Who’s Actually a Babe

    KJR’s Elise Woodward thrives in the ultimate boys’ club.

  • Calendar

    July 2, 2008

    Storm v. Liberty

    KJR’s Elise Woodward thrives in the ultimate boys’ club.

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2006

    Wednesday Telegraph Room

    KJR’s Elise Woodward thrives in the ultimate boys’ club.

  • News

    July 19, 2006

    Storm Troupers

    Enjoy it while it lasts: cheap seats, intense play, and a chance for the playoffs.

  • News

    June 28, 2006

    The End of Pride

    "Pride parades don't seem like much other than an excuse to get inebriated and find a new hookup."

  • News

    June 21, 2006

    A Gender Gap at the Key

    Why isn't the world-champion Seattle Storm part of the arena-replacement debate?

  • News

    February 1, 2006

    Who Owns the Sonics?

    They aren't saying.

  • News

    August 24, 2005

    The Drug Issue

    They aren't saying.

  • News

    August 17, 2005

    A Shot of Their Own

    The Seattle Storm are building a future for women in sports, one fan at a time.

  • News

    February 2, 2005

    The Billionaire Club

    Three of Seattle's richest people—Howard Schultz, Paul Allen, and Bill Gates—can now call Seattle Center home.

  • News

    November 17, 2004

    Hoop Town

    The Sonics are hot, and isn't that a nice surprise?

  • News

    December 24, 2003

    Culture of Molestation

    The Sonics are hot, and isn't that a nice surprise?

  • News

    November 5, 2003

    Buzz

    The media, Seattle Center, and homeland security.

  • News

    August 28, 2002
  • Diversions

    August 21, 2002

    Sports Guy

    Storm Troupers

  • News

    July 24, 2002
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