Dear Seattle Sports, Our relationship started off on the wrong foot from the very beginning. I was born on May 8th, 2001, in a hospital located just 25 minutes away from the home stadium of the Seattle Mariners. Funnily enough, the only Seattle sports game on that day was the Seattle Mariners vs. Boston Red […]
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3 Nov. 2022By: Eric Yin SEATTLE – The big story in Seattle this week is the Mariners. After ending their twenty-year-long playoff drought, the Mariners won their first playoff series since 2001 in historic fashion. Despite being down 8-1 against the Toronto Blue Jays, the Mariners rallied back and became just the third team in
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By: Eric Yin Published 2022/06/20 at 1:13 AM SEATTLE – The Russell Wilson saga of Seahawks football has officially come to a close. Being traded to the Denver Broncos for a big haul, the Seahawks have decided to move on from their best player in franchise history. The Russell Wilson era was incredible. In his
By: Eric Yin Published 2022/06/17 at 5:21 pm SEATTLE – The NBA finals have concluded, and the Warriors have won their fourth title in eight years. This is historic by all metrics. They are one of a handful of teams to make six finals in eight years. For two of the four chips, they only
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By: Eric Yin Published 2022/01/30 at 5:35 PM SEATTLE – It does not feel that long ago the Seahawks and 49ers were in the 2013 NFC Championship Game duking it out to see who got to face the Denver Broncos in the Superbowl. That was almost a decade ago. Back then the Legion of Boom
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By: Eric Yin Published 2021/01/06 at 1:06 am SEATTLE – In 1996 the story was all about Jordan and the Bulls. Coming off a historic 72-10 regular season, the Bulls tore through the East and rolled into the finals riding a 11-1 playoff record, before dusting aside the pesky Sonics. This feat was only further
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By: Eric Yin Published 2020/10/08 at 3:31 pm The Origins (1976) SEATTLE – The Seahawks and Patriots. One in the NFC, the other in the AFC. One on the East Coast, the other on the West Coast. Back in the 1970s when these two teams joined the NFL, no one could have ever predicted just
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By: Eric Yin Published 2020/09/09 at 1:30 pm SEATTLE – A few years ago back when I was a High School Senior, my AP Physics teacher once posed a question to the class, “What is the Physics behind a football pass?” Now honestly when I first heard it, it seemed simple enough: we throw the
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By: Eric Yin Published 2020/08/30 at 4:46 pm SEATTLE – The Metropolitans. A team born through highway robbery, accomplishing some of the greatest feats in ice hockey history, yet simultaneously being infamous for their failures. The Mets were weird, they were strange, and trust me, by the end of this article you’ll be wondering how
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