We move to Seattle and the Greater Northwest….

For the Seahawks, Mike Williams thinks Leon Washington should be Comeback Player of the Year. The fact that he says “I came back from being lazy” is pretty funny. Apparently the Niners loss helped the Seahawks playoff chances (you don’t say!?). Eric Williams lets us know that the Seahawks’ weakness is their pass defense.

The Mariners have been somewhat quiet this offseason.  Felix Hernandez is really good. But Geoff Baker thinks the M’s should at least consider trading him to the Yanks. (Blasphemy!) But that’d never happen anyway.  Lookout Landing has also noticed the A’s offseason moves and seem to like them. But to the wonderful people there: Brett Anderson is the shit!. Oh yeah, they also signed Jack Cust. And they traded for Brendan Ryan, who apparently can’t hit.

Seattle University matters, even though they’re 0-7 on the road, and that’s because of Cameron Dollar writes Nate Parham.

We’re pushing past Seattle to let you know Gonzaga has a HUUUUUUGE early season matchup with LaceDarius Dunn, potential number one pick Perry Jones, and Baylor . Dunn reminds me a LOT of Chris Douglas-Roberts when he was at Memphis. He’s really, really good.

Then while we’re in the area, we head to Portland to check in with the Blazers. Where all hell is breaking loose.  The week started out harmless enough, with the Blazers getting killed by the Spurs; and both Brandon Roy and Andre Miller got killed by TP3 and Manu Ginobili. On Monday, it was the Grizzles turn to beat the Blazers, though Miller had a good game, Roy was terrible.  Then it started.  A quote from Roy after the game:
“I wasn’t that slow until you put a guy who is kind of slow next to me.”
Everyone from Jason Quick to Dwight Jaynes Blazers Edge’s Ben Golliver and Dave had an opinion. Another loss to the Mavs didn’t help things. Supposedly, Brandon Roy said something like:
“This is not going to work, so you should trade one of us. Whether it’s him or whether it’s me, somebody needs to be traded because this is not going to work. ”
Next, Blazers Edge reports that Roy will miss at least 3 games with the injured knees, and of course all week on the Worldwide Leader we heard about how Roy may never be the same. Today we are hearing reports that a Marcin Gortat for Miller deal is being discussed. Luckily for the Blazers, they get Minnesota tonight. But somewhere the ghost of Penny Hardaway is smiling.

A much brighter note for Oregonians is that the Ducks are in the National Title Game. Molly Blue gives you a rundown of who to watch on Auburn’s side.  LaMichael James also was Oregon’s first unanimous All-American, but John Canzano says he should lose Pernell Brown (James’ mentor).

And though there is no basketball team in Seattle anymore (complete travesty), there are a host of Seattle ballers in the NBA.