Yes, I am the Transit Queen for taking Metrolink to the game last night in Anaheim, then taking Amtrak back to Union Station and the MetroRail home. Sadly this plan did mean leaving 10 minutes into the third period, but everyone had scored all they were gonna score by that time so I apparently didn't miss much. Got to see a Ducks player get injured ( Read more... )

It's my last week in town ( Read more... )

Today I got to watch the UW Huskies basketball team earn their first Pac-10 title since 1953. It was a really close game against archnemesis Washington State, both sides very aggressive, and the usual complement of terrible ref calls. But we prevailed, and they let the crowd spill onto the court and they had the pomp and circumstance of cutting ( Read more... )

Although I am quite happy that the Sonics are leaving, Sherman Alexie, who has written a column for The Stranger (Seattle's weekly alternative newspaper, editor: Dan Savage) about the Sonics ("Sonics Death Watch") for some time and who is a die-hard Sonics fan, is devastated. Somehow I missed it, but apparently his testimony in the Sonics case ( ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: I don't give a shit about basketball and never have, as you can probably tell, and I don't care if you do like basketball.

Good riddance. Pro sports franchises are leeches, making ever-greater demands of their host cities for ridiculously expensive stadiums paid for on the public dollar, and most local governments are usually happy to ( Read more... )