Seth Kolloen

If you were going to pick a day to be a fly on the wall, you could do a lot worse than Oct. 8, 1990, in the dank downtown Seattle basement-cum-rehearsal space where Eddie Vedder, having arrived on a plane from California that morning, sang with Pearl Jam for the first time. Crazy thing is:

When Garfield High grad Will Conroy joined the Houston Rockets last month, he became the ninth player from a Seattle high school to play for an NBA team this season. This from the 25th largest city in America. Started me wondering–where does Seattle rank as far as sending players to the NBA? The answer: second. Only Chicago (13) has had more players go from city high schools to the League. Amazing in itself, but even more striking when you look at the numbers by population. There, 206 fertility becomes even more clear. Graph!   That’s right–among large cities, Seattle is [...]

The Seattle Mariners liven up the ballpark with a Felix Hernandez cheering section.

Last Friday night, while you were enjoying your wine bar or experimental theater or ginormous music festival, I went in search of the pleasures of small-town America: A Friday night high school rivalr...

Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch, auteur of the most exciting run in team history, today busted out the sickest juke this Hawks fan has ever seen. The play not only left one of the NFL's greate...

For some comparison, the minimum salary in Major League Baseball is $414,000. The minimum NFL salary is $325,000. Five Sounders will make just $32,604 in 2011. Roger Levesque, who has scored some o...

The high schools of the Seattle/Eastside Kingco League have this strange ritual, which future anthropologists will struggle to understand. In the fall, the Eastsiders destroy the Seattleites in foo...

A Seattle stage will hold 11,000 pounds over the next few weeks. No, I'm not talking about Sinbad's appearance at the Emerald Queen. Instead I refer to the main set for the national tour of Mary Po...

If you want an idea of just how fierce the basketball rivalry between the University of Washington and Seattle University has gotten, know that this morning, on the day of the game between the two ...

Price may not be better than Locker, but he's sure playing like it. Last week’s Husky game against Nebraska provided an interesting chance for comparison. The Huskies played Nebraska twice last sea...