Larry Stone calls upon more than 30 years as a sportswriter to offer insight, wisdom, opinion, analysis - and hopefully some humor - regarding the wide world of sports. Topics include the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat, and, especially, the people responsible for either outcome, as well as the wide chasm between.
It’s a worthy goal to eliminate blatant acts of taunting that are unambiguous in their intent to humiliate or shame an opponent. But it's clear...
The Mariners did the right thing by letting Jarred Kelenic play his way out of his slump. Now he can go into 2022 with the...
In the course of Sunday's overtime loss to the Titans, the "feel-good" from a Week 1 win was replaced by "good grief." And now, once...
The NFC West is going to be an absolute powerhouse in 2021. Yeah, we already sensed that, but the results of Week 1 forcefully drove...
Could the Mariners again match their magical zenith of 2001, when they were at the top of their game and the city relished its best-ever...
Shane Waldron and Russell Wilson were exquisite Sunday. So was the balance between the run and the pass, plus the mixture of short and long,...
Feel free to panic, Husky fans. Jimmy Lake, two games into his second season – and six games into his head-coaching career as Chris Petersen’s...
The combination of an adorable 3-year-old girl at Safeco Field, a messy batch of cotton candy, a Mariners grand slam and an on-the-spot camera sent...
The 42-year-old needs to satisfy coach Pete Carroll's desire to run the ball more with quarterback Russell Wilson's desire for an open offense. Can he...
Nate Burleson’s career is blowing up, in a manner reminiscent of one of his mentors, Michael Strahan, who also segued from X’s and O’s analysis...
