Greg Jayne: Season-opening victory gives Blazers some hope
It is tempting, yet perilous, to read too much into the first game of an interminable NBA season. There are, after all, only 81 more to go.
Greg Jayne: James still has winning formula
Greg Jayne: Commentary
Every college football program goes through good cycles and bad cycles; it's just that each school has a different paradigm through which it defines "good" and "bad."
Greg Jayne: Title IX brings out the gadflies
Greg Jayne: Commentary
According to Webster, a gadfly is "a person who stimulates or annoys, especially by persistent criticism." And Herb Dempsey is perfectly fine with that description.
Greg Jayne: Seahawks' Wilson got the one chance he needed
Greg Jayne: Commentary
Because New England — big, bad, Super-Bowl-or-bust New England — couldn't land a knockout punch, the Seattle Seahawks danced away with a 24-23 victory.
GREG JAYNE: Of champagne dreams and court-storming wishes
Greg Jayne: Commentary
In truth, it was reminiscent of the High Five'n White Guys.
JAYNE: Defense can add grit to Pac-12
Greg Jayne: Commentary
Steve Sarkisian better be careful. Any more quips like that and he'll get himself kicked out of the club.
JAYNE: Not all athletes choose to move
Greg Jayne: Commentary
It seems, sometimes, as though high school is the new college.
Greg Jayne: Arena deal is overdue good news for Seattle
Commentary: Greg Jayne
They were due for some good news. Goodness knows, they were due. Seattle sports fans have spent the past couple years feeling like the early worm that has an unfortunate encounter with the early bird. The Seahawks, Mariners, and Huskies have ranged from dreadful to bland; the Sonics have been relegated to the dust bin of history.
Greg Jayne: As far as your TV goes, it's Vancouver, Ore.
It's like an alternate universe. You wake up in the morning in Vancouver, safely across the river from Portland, and flip on the TV hoping to watch the newly minted Pac-12 Networks. You expect to see the Washington version of the Pac-12 Networks, aware that the conference's effort to take over the world consists of seven -- yes, seven! -- different channels. And instead, you are reminded that Comcast thinks Clark County is in Oregon.
By the Numbers: Trade may have been too late for resurgent Seattle
Greg Jayne: By the Numbers
As the Mariners become the talk of Seattle again, one lingering question remains: What if they had the foresight to give up on Ichiro and Justin Smoak when they should have?
JAYNE: Cost can be high for gold medals
Greg Jayne: Commentary
If there's one thing the Games of London taught me, it's that I am (weep) failing as a parent.
By the Numbers: Perfect games aren't as common as 2012 indicates
Greg Jayne: By the Numbers
When Felix Hernandez became the 23rd of 403,656 pitchers to throw a perfect game, well, it was rather unusual.
By the Numbers: No. 1 picks often reveal crapshoot nature of draft
Greg Jayne: By the Numbers
Unlike the NBA and the NFL, baseball's draft often is a crapshoot.
By the Numbers: Despite lack of spectacular numbers, Ichiro belongs in Hall
Greg Jayne: By the Numbers
Does Ichiro, based solely on his accomplishments on the field, belong in the Hall of Fame? Is he one of the 200 or so best players in major-league history?
Jayne: Patterson won't be felled by bad knee
Greg Jayne: Commentary
Kara Patterson is thinking positively. She's upbeat. She's focused. She's determined to make lemons out of lemonade.
