Our balls on ice
Posted Wed, Jul 30, 5 p.m.
Has the last Seattleite with local pride turned out the lights? A recent trip to Safeco Field makes me wonder.
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Posted Sun, Jul 6, 1:44 p.m.
When I edited Seattle Weekly, I issued a ban on soccer coverage. Why edit a newspaper when you can't, very occasionally, act like a tin-pot dictator and shape it to your perverse desires? I left the paper two years ago but hoped the new editor would realize my no-soccer edict was a lifetime ban. Apparently not. There's a new dictator in town, and the moratorium has been lifted. The editor himself has written a column about soccer in Seattle. The good news: He's not buying the hype that it's the next big thing.
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