by Spencer Weinbender
Staff Writer

In a city that gets dark by 4 o’clock, some of us cannot help but to look to the bright world of sports for a little entertainment. The problem is Seattle is one of the sorriest major sport (baseball, basketball, and football) cities in the nation.

The last and only championship that Seattle holds is the 1979 National Basketball Association (NBA) Title. The Sonics have made one appearance in the1996 Finals since; of course we struck Michael Jordan of all opponents who never lost a playoff series (The Sonics lost in six games.)

The last and only championship that Seattle holds is the 1979 National Basketball Association (NBA) Title. The Sonics have made one appearance in the1996 Finals since; of course we struck Michael Jordan of all opponents who never lost a playoff series (The Sonics lost in six games.)

The Mariners gave us something to get excited about in the mid-late 90’s. That is, until we traded away three of our best players, Ken Griffey Jr., Randy Johnson, and Alex Rodriguez to ever play baseball, in roughly four years.

I will be the first to say how amazing it is that the M’s won 116 games in 2001, which set the record for most all-time. More amazing is that the team set the record after making some of the most bogus trades in the history of sports. The astonishing record was long forgotten when the Mariners were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.

They have not made it back to the playoffs since and managed to find a way to eliminate their chance for postseason life in the last seventeen games of the 2007 season. Typical.

The Seahawks have somehow avoided the Seattle sports theme of not being successful, but it is not looking so promising anymore. Let us not forget that before 2005, the Seahawks represented everything wrong with the Seattle sports scene: consistent losses, bad front office and no hope for fans.

The Seahawks are 4-3 in the very weak National Football Conference (NFC), not to mention the NFC West is the worst division in all of football.

Last year, we received a late holiday present in the form of a trip to the NFC Conference Semifinals from Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys when their game-winning field goal snap took a turn for the worst. This all happened after going on a 9-7 record following a Super Bowl appearance and signing a long overdue big name for linebacker Julian Peterson.

Matt Hasselbeck and Shaun Alexander are still having problems exchanging the ball after seven years of practicing with it together every day. Not to mention the superstars found a way to let it cost them a division game early in season along with first place in the NFC West for the first time since 2004.

I know some of you are thinking, “What about those UW and WSU football teams in the 90’s?”

Well, the University of Washington (UW) shared the National Football Championship with the University of Miami in 1991. Washington State University (WSU) came as close as loosing to Michigan in the 1998 Rose Bowl after going undefeated the whole season.

Don’t forget about the Storm. In the seven years that the team has been in the league, it has already achieved a championship.

So we have it pretty good in the Seattle sports scene if you watch professional Women’s basketball or enjoy college crew.