Seattle Sports: In the Morning

The Huskies beat Portland St., 84-65. Brockman had almost as many rebounds (12) as the whole Vikings team (13).

Other Pac-10 scores: Arizona St. beat Montana St. 66-62. UCLA beat Western Illinois 77-52.

Reports say Twins sinkerballer Carlos Silva is "pondering" a 4-year/$44 million offer from the Mariners. Is Silva worth it? To the stat nerd blogs! USS Mariner says no. This Mets blogger says yes.

The Clippers featured an all-Gonzaga backcourt during crunchtime last night. The NBA: Where Richie Frahm happens. If you're wondering whether a backcourt of Richie Frahm and Dan Dickau could lead an NBA team to victory...you must be a really big Zags fan. The Clips lost, 80-77. It was Frahm's first career start, in his 133rd career NBA game.

TrueHoop's Henry Abbott breaks down Brandon Roy's skills in a must-read post. He singles out Roy's speed, which we Husky fans know about (remember when he ran down Jordan Farmar?) but which people don't see because Roy doesn't look fast. Abbott writes: "Roy isn't touted as a speed merchant, but early in the game last night Roy easily beat Rasual Butler down the floor for a right-handed layup." As an aside--Brandon's dad Ed was, like me, among the spectators at the Garfield/Inglemoor game last night.

Julio Mateo pled guilty to hitting his wife. He'll avoid jail time as a result of that plea--his punishment is he'll have to take a domestic abuse prevention class.

Travis Heath of Hoopsworld has an interview with Jeff Green, calling him Robin to Kevin Durant's Batman. Says Green: "We're going to complement each other by creating mismatches against every team we play against. We'll be very dangerous."

Scout.com reports that Kennedy High DE Everette Thompson commits to the UW. That give s the Dawgs all of the state's top five recruits, writes the P-I's Molly Yanity. Scout has 6-5, 231 lb Thompson as the #11 DE in the country.

Bob Condotta cites an LA Daily News report that UCLA defensive coordinator and interim head coach DeWayne Walker is Ty Willingham's top choice to replace Kent Baer.

The LA Daily News reports that UCLA interviewed Rick Neuheisel on Friday. I could not be more excited about Neuheisel returning to the Pac-10 with his unique brand of recruiting nothing but wide receivers and defensive backs, and the Huskies pounding the Bruins into the ground every year. John Sleeper of the Herald remembers Neuheisel as an enigma: "As intelligent as Neuheisel is, his biggest downfall was his absolute conviction that he was smarter than anyone else and can talk his way out of anything."

Author Derek Johnson interviews former Husky defensive lineman Tyrone Rodgers, who has some criticisms of the Dawgs' '07 D-Line: "First thing, they stand up at the snap of the ball. If Steve Emtman and I stood up like that, Coach Hart would go crazy. He was very anal about that first step. If we didn’t make the first step correctly, it wouldn’t matter if we made a sack or what—it was considered a terrible play and he would go crazy on us. The current guys don’t use their hands. Also, the second effort usually isn’t there."

If the Seahawks beat the Ravens Sunday, this guy will have to keep living on his roof.

Art Thiel has a sensible suggestion to stop the college head-coaching bidding wars: "Upon a head coaching change, grant scholarship players free agency. Release them from their letters of intent and let them pursue transfers without the one-year sit-out rule." Wait, but wouldn't that help out the players? This is the NCAA we're talking about...

Percy Allen of the Times shows that Oklahoma City pols voted $250K to study what they'd have to do the Ford Center to make it a viable home for an NBA team.

No FSN customer will have a Beaver-less summer--the network's showing 20 games of the Portland AAA franchise.

It may bore the shit out of you, but I love the "Where Are They Now" series that Dan Raley writes for the P-I. He always supplies at least one interesting tidbit from the Seattle's sports past, and today's profile of former UW and NBA player George Irvine is no different. On Irvine's performance in a 1969 game against #12 USC: "[Irvine] piled up 41 points, still the fourth-highest total in UW history, trailing only three 40-plus games by Bob Houbregs. He dropped in his final point in a 90-86 victory over the Trojans on a free throw following the buzzer after getting knocked to the floor by USC's 7-foot-1, 265-pound Ron Taylor on a breakaway lay-in and momentarily losing consciousness."

Sam Presti knows his 90s music. Writes Jayda Evans: "Before my interview with him in a Minnesota hotel lobby on Friday, he asked what I was just listening to on my iPod. I said, 'A Tribe Called Quest,' but when he asked what song, I looked at the thing and said 'Longview' because the next track had just started.

'That's not the Tribe, that's Green Day,' he quickly said."