Seattle Sports: In the Morning

Jerome James wants...well, you figure it out. He tells the Times' Percy Allen about the 04-05 Sonics: "Everybody got paid after that season. A lot of those guys need to thank me for that. I did the dirty work for those guys. I kept them clean. Nobody messed with them and everybody knew not to mess with them because then you'd have to answer to me. I'm not saying Ray [Allen] and Rashard [Lewis] and those guys owe me any money or anything like that, but they should say thank you."

Jon Brockman's groin injury bothered him in both the Stanford and Cal games, writes the Times' Bob Condotta, but Brockman thinks he'll be 100% for must-win games against the L.A. schools this week.

The Times' executive editor, David Boardman, responds to some of the most common criticisms of his paper's series on the 2000 Huskies.

Dave Krieg isn't impressed by the gaudy numbers of today's QBs. He tells The Olympian's Gail Wood: "Today, receivers get 5 yards, and pass interference is called almost all the time. So guys are afraid to defend and use bump and run. Quarterbacks can't get hit, linemen can hold. And there's the spread offense. Everything is spread out. The old quarterbacks are kind of envious. They think, 'Wow this is almost like seven-on-seven.'"