Jumping through hoops

February 15, 2006 6:08 am

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According to today’s Times, the high school on my side of the peninsula has a bit of a sports scandal to deal with. Just for once, I would like to hear about a school going out of its way to recruit students because of their brain, not their brawn …

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In honor of the Olympics …

February 14, 2006 8:48 pm

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… I’m looking up West Seattleites with Olympic history.

First one I’ve turned up is Doris Heritage, an Olympic track star turned SPU track coach, who lives on this side of the bay, according to her bio on the SPU site.

That’s it so far … let me know if you know of someone else. Meantime, it’s back to the TV to ooh and aah and pretend I know the difference between a triple lutz and a triple toe loop.

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Blue-green blues

February 6, 2006 7:51 pm

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OK, one last word (or a couple dozen, really):

–Sad shred of Super Bowl mania: The blue & green balloons festooning cars at one of the Huling Brothers lots.

–Moment where I wish I’d had a camera: Driving to work on the viaduct this morning, with the sky that pre-dawn deep blue, a truck flying a 12th M*n window flag (which had been beside me since leaving WS) framed against the blue-green lights on the Qwest Field roof.

Peaceful, over, let’s close the book and move on to … SPRING!

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They’re local — and they ARE the champs

February 6, 2006 6:21 am

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All right, let’s get over our Super Bowl hangover.

Here’s a team that did win a title after something like a 30-year “drought.”

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It’s not whether ya win or lose …

February 5, 2006 9:20 pm

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… it’s how you party during the game.

West Seattle Blog World Headquarters just wrapped up a fun little gathering, never mind that The Home Team fell short. No rioting, no drunken revelry. Our attendees hail from other parts of the metro area, so they all had to behave themselves in order to make it safely home.

But if you hear sirens and wonder how close to you the Sunday night troublemaking is getting … you can check the “live 911” fire dispatch site to get the address, and hide under the bed if necessary!

In the meantime, chant “next year is just seven months away” or even better, “it’s almost spring training”!

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Mourning the marquee

January 30, 2006 6:37 am

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I was going to chug out a rant here about driving down California Avenue SW and spotting only two “Go Hawks” marquees. Then the thought presented itself: Really, how many potential “Go Hawks” marquees/signboards/whatever-you-want-to-call-them? Darn few. (But on the south end of Cali Ave, really, you’d think at least O’Neill The Plumber and McD’s could join the lonely Thriftway signboard in Super Bowl spirit … I’ll keep watching.)

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Paint the town blue

January 22, 2006 11:59 pm

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OK, like 75 percent of the rest of Seattle’s bloggers, I will dutifully write something here about the Super Bowl-bound Seahawks. I will seek to tie it to This Blog’s theme by noting that I have been out and about in the hours since The Big Game concluded, and I have not seen any evidence of blue lights on roofs, banners on porches, new bumper stickers on cars, etc. C’mon kids, we can do better. Let’s get the Westwood Village QFC to at least offer some blue-iced cupcakes. Two weeks to the Super Bowl, plenty of time for a football frenzy.

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Seahawks fans “check out”

January 14, 2006 7:10 pm

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An unlikely hotbed of Seahawks pre-game fan mania today: West Seattle Thriftway. Custom T-shirts on the workers, as far as my eye could see. I’ve seen the Thriftway go Mariners-manic before, but not Seahawks-crazy. If they’re really serious, perhaps they can program the signboard outside to flash GO SEAHAWKS inbetween wine deals!

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