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Seattle Mariners rally from seven runs down to sweep Blue Jays, win, dance, and advance

by Andrew Villeneuve

In a game that will sure­ly enter the annals of not only team but league his­to­ry as one of the great­est come­back wins of all time, the Seat­tle Mariners pre­vailed 10–9 over the Toron­to Blue Jays at Rogers Cen­tre to win the decid­ing game in a best of three wild card series, keep­ing their sea­son going and set­ting up a sec­ond play­off series with their divi­sion rival, the Hous­ton Astros. 

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Seattle Mariners end playoff drought, clinch postseason spot with walkoff win

by Andrew Villeneuve

The vic­to­ry brought the longest ongo­ing drought in pro­fes­sion­al sports to an end in spec­tac­u­lar fash­ion, send­ing the very ready sold-out crowd at T‑Mobile Park into a mas­sive, rau­cous cel­e­bra­tion. Mariners play­ers donned Octo­ber Rise shirts and caps and took a team pho­to out on the field as the dis­play boards in the parks shim­mered with the word “CLINCHED” repeat­ed over and over.

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Seattle Storm win third WNBA championship, sweeping the Washington Mystics in D.C.

by Andrew Villeneuve

Tonight is a night for cel­e­bra­tion. The 2018 Seat­tle Storm have once again brought a cham­pi­onship home to the Emer­ald City, sweep­ing the Wash­ing­ton Mys­tics in a best-of-five series to claim their third title over­all — which is the most of any Seat­tle pro­fes­sion­al sports fran­chise. Way to go, Storm — we’re so proud of you! 

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Seattle rallies to celebrate the Sounders’ historic MLS Cup victory

by Dominic Barrera

After an ardu­ous elec­tion year with shock­ing results, Wash­ing­to­ni­ans were in des­per­ate need of a feel-good sto­ry to close out 2016. Cue the under­dog Sounders’ barn­storm­ing through the MLS Cup play­offs. The unex­pect­ed loss of the team’s two top scor­ers and mid-sea­­son fir­ing of head coach Sigi Schmid set the stage for a sto­ry­book turn-around that […]

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WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!! Seattle Sounders FC win 2016 MLS Cup, defeating Toronto FC

by Andrew Villeneuve

Break out the blue and green vic­to­ry ban­ners — the MLS Cup is com­ing to Seat­tle! After many years of com­ing up short in the play­offs, the Seat­tle Sounders FC have final­ly won it all, defeat­ing Toron­to FC on their home turf in Canada’s largest city to bring home their first cham­pi­onship. It was a […]

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Everything you need to know about a state government shutdown

by Robert Cruickshank

Judg­ing by the news today, the pub­lic is start­ing to become aware of the pos­si­bil­i­ty that Repub­li­can intran­si­gence over the bud­get could cause a shut­down of the Wash­ing­ton state gov­ern­ment. If a bud­get isn’t approved by June 30, then start­ing on July 1, many state gov­ern­ment oper­a­tions will slow or cease. As a pub­lic ser­vice, the […]

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Help us give Geov Parrish a hand up

by Andrew Villeneuve

As some­one who’s been involved in pro­gres­sive pol­i­tics for almost half a life­time, I have great admi­ra­tion and appre­ci­a­tion for peo­ple who have ded­i­cat­ed their lives to activism and orga­niz­ing. Most of us in the pro­gres­sive move­ment are part-time activists; we choose to be involved because we care, but our oblig­a­tions to work/school and family […]

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Bill intended to force construction of Keystone XL pipeline fails to advance in U.S. Senate

by Andrew Villeneuve

By the tight­est of mar­gins, the U.S. Sen­ate this evening defeat­ed a poor­ly con­ceived bill intend­ed to give oil giant Tran­sCana­da a green light to build its pro­posed Key­stone XL pipeline through Mon­tana, the Dako­tas, and Nebras­ka. S.2280, prime spon­sored by Repub­li­can John Hoeven of North Dako­ta and pro­mot­ed by an increas­ing­ly des­per­ate Mary Landrieu […]