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Former Sonic player and coach, Paul Westphal, dies

TERRY MOSHER TOP OF THE TOWN – Former Seattle Sonics player and coach Paul Westphal has died at age 70 from brain cancer diagnosed in August of 2020. Westphal came to the ...

I don’t understand how gifted athletes like Haskins can ruin that gift, plus the great Tom Stith

TERRY MOSHER   TOP OF THE TOWN – Maybe it’s because I was a very good athlete as a young kid and went nowhere with it that I look at these guys ...

The strange case of Seattle’s Josh “Flash” Gordon rings a bell for me

TERRY MOSHER TOP OF THE TOWN ‑ The strange case of Seattle wide receiver Josh Gordon is indeed weird, and it does ring a few bells for me. Gordon, whose nickname is ...

Win on Sunday and the Seahawks are the NFC West champions

TERRY MOSHER TOP OF THE TOWN – It’s the big one of the year for the Seattle Seahawks. They win Sunday at home against the Los Angeles Rams and the Hawks are ...

COVID-19 got the Huskies before the Trojans could

TERRY MOSHER TOP OF THE TOWN – For the record, I didn’t believe Washington would beat USC in the Pac-12 title game. The Huskies aren’t yet ready for prime time and the ...

Are the Seahawks contenders or pretenders?

TERRY MOSHER TOP OF THE TOWN –Ok, it’s time for the Seattle Seahawks to prove they are contenders instead of pretenders. There is a debate. They started out 5-0 and have lost ...

Russell Wilson, what if anything is wrong with him?

TERRY MOSHER   RUSSELL WILSON TOP OF THE TOWN ‑The saga of Russell Wilson is swirling around, not just this region, but across the country. What is wrong with him? That is ...

Help flip the Senate, contribute to the cause

TERRY MOSHER   This ask for donations came from Adam Schiff: Terry, With less than a month until the January 5th Senate runoff election in Georgia, Democratic candidates Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael ...

Life’s Circle Game

TERRY MOSHER     TOP OF THE TOWN – Tom Rush in 1968 covered a song first sung by Joni Mitchell. It is haunting and brings me to near tears. You might ...

Husky basketball is terrible

TERRY MOSHER TOP OF THE TOWN – The Washington Husky basketball team stinks. There is no other way to describe it. They are 0-3 so far, and there not in any of ...

Zion the Lion is mauling Husky opponents

TERRY MOSHER TOP OF THE TOWN – Let us call him Zion the Lion because he’s a mauler, a vicious attacker. His real name is Zion Tuopuola-Fetui and he has been unexpectedly ...

Are the Jimmy Lake Huskies a monster lurking at Montlake?

TERRY MOSHER   TOP OF THE TOWN – Wow, I did not expect this. Washington smashed visiting Arizona Saturday night (Nov. 21). The Huskies just blew them up. Arizona could do nothing ...

Washington Huskies won, but I saw a lack of discipline from them

TERRY MOSHER TOP OF THE TOWN ‑  It wasn’t pretty but the Washington Huskies debut under first-year coach Jimmy Lake was a success on the football field, a 27-21 Pac-12 victory over ...

Huskies anxious to get their season underway, host the Oregon State Beavers

TERRY MOSHER TOP OF THE TOWN – If COVID-19 doesn’t interfere, the Washington Huskies will kick off their football season on Saturday when they face the visiting Oregon State Beavers in a game ...

Stay calm, stay in peace and love while Trump flails about in his last days

TERRY  MOSHER TOP OF THE TOWN ‑ Stay calm, stay in peace, light and love.  We shall overcome. You will see in the remaining 71 days of the current administration that it will ...

Predicting games (and losing) and laughter when talking heads talk about Seahawks being a Super Bowl contender

  TERRY MOSHER TOP OF THE TOWN – I must be getting close to my expiration date, in more ways than one. I used to be really good at predicting winners in ...

I had a sad week of picking games, but this week will be better

  TERRY MOSHER TOP OF THE TOWN ‑ I probably would have done better if I had flipped a coin last week to select winning football games because I finished 12-15 (5-9 ...

Nick Bachteler caps off KSBO’s 47th season with his sixth victory

  TERRY MOSHER TOP OF THE TOWN – Nick Bachteler earned his sixth Kitsap Scratch Bowlers Organization’s when he won the Westbay Auto Open tournament at Hi-Joy Bowl in Port Orchard. Bachteler ...