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  While still euphoric over the Seahawks’ Super Bowl victory, Seattle sports fans had more reasons to celebrate this weekend as NBA Commissioner Adam Silver left little doubt that Seattle and Las Vegas will be the next two cities to receive NBA expansion teams. Speaking at the league All-Star game in Inglewood, Cal., Silver said the league would be talking about expansion at their March meeting and that would open the door for approval from other owners sometime in the summer. Most importantly, Seattle and Las Vegas were the cities specifically mentioned. As far as what the league has to talk about, the first question would be who will be the owners of the new teams and certainly they would have to pay an expansion fee to join the league. David Bonderman was a co-founder of the Seattle Kraken along with Jerry Bruckheimer, and also a minority owner of the Boston Celtics. There was speculation that Bonderman would be involved in bringing an NBA back to Seattle- and the new team...

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS For anyone who questions whether sporting events bring a city together, consider this. You could have walked the streets of Seattle, Sunday night, and yelled out `Sea,’ and chances are someone off in the distance would call back, `Hawks.’ That was the scene on Capitol Hill in Seattle where fans filed out of the numerous watering holes that were showing the Super Bowl to join in a mass celebration. There were chants, cheering, singing ``We Are The Champions,’’ and even fireworks going off in the distance. The Seattle Seahawks had just defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX (60), 29-13, in a game that seemed more one-sided than the final score would indicate. The Seahawks are now 2-2 in the country’s biggest sporting event, and avenged a loss to the Patriots back in 2015, XLIX (49), 28-24. Even the appearance of Malcolm Butler in pre-game ceremonies, who made the game clinching interception against Russell Wilson in that ill-fated Feb. 1, 2015 conte...

Welcome to the new and improved Seattle SPORTs Now. While there are several sites that provide game stories this is something new and different- a weekly newsletter that will focus on Seattle sports and whatever catches the attention of your author. Hope you enjoy it. Sam Darnold and the Super Bowl The year 2025 was a good year for Seattle sports fans. One month into 2026, it appears this could be an even better year. The Seattle Mariners dominated headlines in 2025, winning the American League Western Division and then advancing to the AL championship series against the Toronto Blue Jays. The M’s looked like they were headed to their first-ever World Series until they weren’t. Currently, the Seattle Seahawks are preparing for their first Super Bowl appearance since 2015. As anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock knows, the Seahawks are facing the same team they faced in 2015- the New England Patriots (and congrats if these were your picks to make the Super Bowl at the begi...

The Seattle Kraken began 2026 the way they ended 2025- with a home victory. This time the Nashville Predators were the victim. Actually, the Kraken lost their final 2025 game to Vancouver in overtime, but chalked up five wins prior to that game. Jamie Oleksiak and Matty Beniers scored goals ten seconds apart (the second fastest two goals in Kraken history) in the first period after Beniers’ earlier goal had given Seattle a 1-0 lead. Jared McCann added an empty-netter in the final three minutes to lead Seattle to a 4-1 win over the Predators last night at Climate Pledge Arena. Seattle improves its record to 17-14-7 (Kraken fans would have taken that record at the start of the season as the team heads into a new year) and are remarkably back in a playoff spot after a 1-9-1 skein in late November and early December. Since then, the Kraken have rattled off a 5-0-1 mark. The Predators are 18-18-1, three points behind Seattle in the Conference logjam. Philipp Grubauer, who’ll represent...

  The Seattle Kraken brought a four game winning streak into last night’s contest against the Vancouver Canucks, and the Kraken would turn in one of their best performances of the season. Unfortunately, the Kraken could only muster one standings point as the Canucks won the shootout and earned a hard-fought 3-2 victory in Seattle’s final game of the 2025 calendar year. The teams were deadlocked 2-2 after two periods and the Kraken would have one of their best (third) periods of the season. Seattle outshot their Pacific Division rivals, 16-3, in the final stanza but Vancouver goaltender Kevin Lankinen thwarted every Seattle scoring bid, turning aside 16 shots. The Kraken had the only three shots of the overtime period and Lankinen also came up with a couple of big stops in the shootout, making stops on Freddy Gaudreau and Jordan Eberle. “You’ve got to give him (Lankinen) credit, he played well and made some big saves for them,” said Seattle’s Jared mcCann “We peppered him an...

With the National Hockey League celebrating its Christmas break, it’s a good time to look back at the Seattle Kraken’s 2025-26 season. However, this Kraken team raises more questions than answers? Is this the Seattle team that had its best regular season start in their brief NHL tenure with 20 standings points in the first month of the season, or the team that won only one game in 11 and went almost a month without a win in regulation time. Recently, thrown into the mix, the Kraken have won their last three games. After ending their latest losing streak (of four games) with a win over the San Jose Sharks, the Kraken went on to post a California sweep- beating the Sharks, Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings. On the road, no less. Adding to the `this shouldn’t be happening’ vibe – the Kraken were without two of their best scorers, Jaden Schwartz and Jared McCann, and their two best (only?) offensive defensemen, Vince Dunn and Brandon Montour. There are some reasons for optimism...