Date archive: November 2013

Will new M’s president be tied closely into business side or the baseball side?

By Terry Benish Special to The Sports Paper Tuesday night before Thanksgiving, Chuck Armstrong announced his retirement as president of the Seattle Mariners, ending a long run under two different ownership ...

Grinnell College makes history with its system that Klahowya will now use this season

Clay Moyle and son Caleb Grinnell College is a small private liberal arts school in Iowa with a Division III men’s basketball team. I’d never heard of the school before one of ...

Klahowya’s trickery on the basketball court may sound good in principle, but not in practice

Bumming around town with Bill Bumerton Bumerton is a retired Navy fighter pilot who had been missing in action for several years while he ...

If M’s need to resort to trades this winter, things could get bad if history is any lesson

By Terry Benish Special to The Sports Paper From the hall of fame baseball writer Peter Gammons comes the story behind this link: http://www.gammonsdaily.com/coffee-and-clippings-peralta-is-right-player-right-price-for-cardinals/ This morning the Cardinals made official the ...

As free agents get scooped up, M’s appear to be missing in action

By Terry Benish Special to The Sports Paper “Names that have been bandied about (please hold your applause until the end) by the rumor-mongers include Carlos Beltran, Shin-Soo Choo, Nelson Cruz, Jhonny ...

Elton’s life tribute was incredibly beautiful and wonderful

Terry Mosher I have never been associated with a memorial service so large (an estimated 1,000 people) that was so wonderfully done, so amazingly moderated (by David Rill) ...

Exploring Ketchikan area and the northern half of Inside Passage can be an incredible experience

Earl Sande I’ve had the good fortune of visiting the Ketchikan area six times in the last 20 years. Several of these fishing trips were truly an incredible experience. One time, my ...

If you want the real deal on the M’s, certain bloggers have it

By Terry Benish Special to The Sports Paper Sustaining as a fan of the Seattle Mariners is difficult. The team has been uniformly bad for most of its 36-year life. ...

New hand-checking rules in basketball stink

Terry Mosher I guess I’m in the minority about the new hand-checking rules in basketball (not the NBA) because most of what I read is in favor of the ...

Killing of JFK shattered my college life and changed my beliefs

Terry Mosher There have been and will be more features done on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, which happened 50 years ago a week from today (Nov. 22). I’m not going ...

The Edgar better get into Cooperstown

Terry Mosher Boy, I’m going to be really upset if David Arias gets in Baseball’s Hall of Fame before Edgar Martinez. And that is the way this thing is leaning as of ...

Stop all the pretense of the one-and-done player

Terry Mosher Something has to be done to solve the one-and-done phenomena. It’s plain stupid and is not in the best interest of the basketball player or the university that he pretends ...

It’s wrong for golf to bend to the whims of Tiger

I’m not a fan of Tiger Woods. Let’s get that straight right away. So this might be a little bias, but I think Tiger gets too much lee-way when ...

Are you serious? M’s looking to deal for Dodgers’ Kemp

By Terry Benish Special to The Sports Paper Some national baseball writers in the past week have linked the Mariners to various free agents. It began actually a few weeks ago ...

For just 25 cents, the Blonde gets it

Bumming around town with Bill Bumerton Bumerton is a retired Navy fighter pilot who had been missing in action for several years while he traversed the globe looking for greener grass. He ...

North Kitsap’s Tyler Lee led the Vikings in just about everything defensively

Bumming around town with Bill Bumerton Bumerton is a retired Navy fighter pilot who had been missing in action for several years while he traversed the globe looking for greener grass. He ...

Doo-wop opens the mind to a slew of past idyllic memories, including of course Iroquois beer

Terry Mosher I was just listening to Aaron Neville talk about doo-wop music (it was called R&B back in the 1950s) and what he said hit me square on the ...

I’m surprised more guys don’t walk away from the NFL

Clay Moyle and son Caleb I’m sure that most people were probably very surprised to hear that 27-year-old offensive lineman John Moffitt, a former third round pick of the Seattle Seahawks who ...

What did you expect from the NFL, tea and crumpets?

Terry Mosher Others, including Larry Stone of the Seattle Times, are jumping on the bandwagon that is taking a second look at the NFL and the dangers associated with playing in the ...

A-Rod doesn’t get it, but some NFL players are getting it, and it isn’t good

Terry Mosher Alex Rodriguez is one strange dude. He can’t admit the truth, except when it’s convenient. His fight to exonerate himself from baseball’s attacks will only destroy the image he ...