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  If you’ve watched the World Baseball Classic recently, there’s a player on the Canadian team who might seem familiar. Phillippe Aumont from Gatineau, Quebec was a number-one draft pick of the Seattle Mariners way back in 2007 (11 th overall), the third player in Canadian history to be taken that high in the amateur draft following Adam Loewen (Baltimore) and Jeff Francis (Colorado) in 2002. However, he never made it to the big club being dealt in one of those `we’ve got a shot to win this year’ deals in 2012. Aumont was dealt to the Phillies as part of a package for pitcher Cliff Lee, who the Mariners would soon deal away when they realized they didn’t have a shot to win that year. Aumont pitched parts of three seasons with the Phils chalking up a less than inspiring 1-6 record. He spent time in the Tigers, White Sox and Blue Jays organizations bunt never saw action in in the major leagues after leaving Philadelphia. Despite not having pitched in the majors since 2015 or...

In the first day of NFL free-agency the Seattle Seahawks lost Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker III, who signed a three-year $45 million deal with the Kansas City Chiefs. Also leaving the Seahawks are pass rusher Boye Mafe who’ll receive $60 mil. for three years from the Cincinnati Bengals and defensive back Cobe Bryant, who inked a three-year $40 million deal with the Chicago Bears. The Seahawks re-signed one player that day, cornerback Joshua Jobe. On paper, it appears that Maye and Bryant got better deals than Walker, who no doubt is the player Seahawk fans are most sorry to lose, but running backs, because of the physical beating they take, generally have much shorter careers (and are leading candidates to be permanently injured before a long-term contract would expire). Some good news for the Seahawk Nation was the resigning of wide receiver/kick return specialist Rashid Shaheed over the weekend who agreed to a three-year, $51 million contract to remain with the Se...

  Fresh off a USA women’s hockey victory in the 2026 Winter Olympics, Seattle set a new women’s hockey attendance record last Friday night at Climate Pledge Arena. A sellout crowd of 17,335 was on-hand to see a contest between the home town Torrent and the Toronto Sceptres (who posted a 5-2 victory). Not bad, considering the Torrent and the Sceptres are the bottom two teams in league standings. This marked the third time in four months that the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) has set a new attendance record. The Torrent previously set the record at their inaugural home opener against the Minnesota Frost on November 28, 2025 in front of 16,014 fans at Climate Pledge Arena. Then as part of the PWHL Takeover tour, a total of 17,228 fans filled Capital One Arena in Washington DC for a game between the Montreal Victoire and the New York Sirens. The Takeover Tour allows fans in cities without a PWHL franchise the opportunity to see the women’s game. Team USA and T...

  While Seattle hockey fans ponder why Nathan McKinnon never misses an open net when he plays against the Kraken, Seattle’s two pro hockey teams return home from the Winter Olympics this weekend. The Kraken (27-20-9, 63 points), currently third in the Pacific Division and in a playoff spot, play at Dallas, Wednesday and St. Louis, Thursday. They begin their longest home stand of the season on Saturday when they host their arch-rivals, the Vancouver Canucks. Despite having six players in the Olympics, including Team USA captain Hillary Knight, the Torrent currently reside in the cellar of the Professional Women’s Hockey League with a 4-1-2-7 record for 16 points (the PWH separates wins from overtime wins). The Torrent host the Toronto Sceptres on Saturday at Climate Pledge Arena. While the US men and women’s teams both defeated Canada, 2-1, in overtime to win gold medals, the women were dominant. The USA team outscored their opponents, 33-3, going 7-0 in the tournament. Torr...

  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...