Unbelievable

I guess you can say anything can happen in college football. The University of Washington Huskies played in Tucson, Arizona against University of Arizona. What made unbelievable the Huskies dominated the Wildcats in every part of the game and still found a way to lose by one point. Until the very end they looked like they would win; however, with about 90 seconds remaining and having the ball the offense fumbled the ball near the 50 yard line. The Wildcats after getting a couple first downs kicked a field goal to win. Actually in the first half the Huskies tried a field goal that ended up hitting the goal post. If they would have made that field goal they would still have won. They had a couple other opportunities to score and fumbled as well. In one case Cyler Miles the Husky quarterback went back to pass and the ball went out of his hand. They could have scored a touchdown or at least a field goal. The Huskies defense generally was good all game long. They did not deserve the loss. I asked friends this morning at coffee shop what they thought of the game. Got the response I thought was not to talk about it.

Friday night the Huskies basketball team had their opening game of the season against South Carolina State. I do not know much about them except they do not shoot very well. The announcers said that they were the worst shooting team in college basketball last season so the Huskies won by more than twenty points. I thought the Huskies played OK for being the first game of the season. They are primarily dominated by guards. They do have three big men which includes Sawn Kemp Jr. the son of the former Seattle Supersonics player. He is not like his dad, however, he look like he may have a very good season. The other two looked OK but I will leave judgment for another time. Right now the Huskies do look like they may be in the middle of the Pac 12 like the sport writers who follow the league predicted.

The Seattle Seahawks ended up losing to the Kansas City Chiefs 24-20. They were in the game the whole way, however, they can only afford maybe one more loss in the remaining six games to make the playoffs. The main reason they lost was the Chiefs running game which the Seahawks could not stop most of the game. The Seahawks running game was really good as well except the last two times they had the ball in the game which the Chiefs were able to stop them. It was obvious losing Brandon Mebane was a big loss for this game at least. They will need to do a better job in run defense. I am sure the Arizona Cardinals will start out the game to run on them as well. Really to win the game the Seahawks will need to pass the ball better than they did again the Chiefs.

It was disappointing that Felix Hernandez did not win the Cy Young award for the Seattle Mariners. He had such a great season except a few starts. Last week was the General Managers meeting in Phoenix, Arizona; however, they did not come away with any trades or free agent signings. Hopefully they were able to get some feelers during the meetings. In December the Winter Meetings happen as well where they can continue to talk with other teams and free agents. Of course, they can make trades now as well. Everyone knows they must get a couple outfielders if possible. If not an outfielder they need a first baseman –dh. What is important is to get two players that bat right handed with power. More about this in coming weeks.