Percy Allen is a seasoned sports journalist who has been with The Seattle Times for a quarter-century, covering everything you can think of in Seattle’s sports culture. Since 1993, Allen has been a voice that Seattle sports culture can trust. He covered the Seattle SuperSonics’ championship in 1996, which ended with the Chicago Bulls beating…
The University of Virginia is gearing up to face the Purdue Boilermakers in the Elite Eight in a couple of hours. As both schools are looking to punch their tickets into the Final Four this year in Minneapolis. The Cavaliers just secured a school-best 32 win this season as they beat the Oregon Ducks 53-49…
Matt Hasselbeck began his tenure with the Seattle Seahawks back in 2001. He would spend nine seasons in the Emerald City as the man under center even helped lead the franchise to its first Superbowl in 2005. Unfortunately, for Hasselbeck and the Seahawks, they came up a little short against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super…
This past summer the Milwaukee Bucks were in search of a new head coach after letting newly inducted Hall of Famer Jason Kidd go. The Bucks would ultimately decide to hire Mike Budenholzer, but before they made their decision. They announced that Spurs assistant coach Becky Hammon was among the candidates they would be bringing in for…
On January 20th, 2015, Jenny Boucek returned to Seattle Storm as their head coach after nine seasons. During her first go around with the franchise, she helped the team win their first championship as a part of Anne Donovan’s coaching staff in 2004 against the Connecticut Sun. In 2006, Boucek decided to step away from the team…
This past summer, the NBA returned to Seattle for the first time in ten years. Seattle hosted a preseason game between the Golden State and Sacramento Kings at Key Arena, where the Seattle Supersonics used to call home. This game was very significant to Seattle because they drafted Warriors All-Star Kevin Durant with the second…
Three-time WNBA champion and the league’s all-time assist leader Sue Bird was introduced Friday as a basketball operations associate with Denver Nuggets. Bird was not looking to get into NBA management when Nuggets president of basketball operations, Tim Connelly, reached out this fall, which she stated was a “perfect match” that aligned with her future goals.…
Diana Taurasi is one of the most decorated basketball players in the history of the game male or female. The White Mamba a nickname given to her by NBA legend Kobe Bryant is a scoring machine. She is currently the All-time Leading Scorer (8082) and three-pointers (1028) made in WNBA HIstory. Other awards that she collected over…
Photo Credit: theseattlelesbian.com The Hype Magazine had the opportunity for an in-depth and candid interview with one of the best basketball players to ever pick up a basketball male or female. That player being global icon, Lauren Jackson now if you ask her, she will tell you that “ She had a great career,…