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Volume 5, Issue 19, Seattle University, March 3rd, 2009

By Nate Taggart and Aaron Bean

We did it! Our Washington Huskies are the Pac-10 regular season champions and we helped them do it but there is still some work to be done. Seattle University will be looking to renew a rivalry that has been on hold for 30 years and this game will be the game of the Redhawks’ season.

The game is being reported as being sold out and I’m sure there will be plenty of Seattle U students and fans there to support their brand new Division-I team. That means that we have to be as loud as ever and make this rivalry one that can be just as bitter as any in future years.

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If you carouse the Husky message board circuit, as I do, you are fully aware that there are a handful of University of Washington basketball fans that do not like head coach Lorenzo Romar.  A year ago, those misguided souls were an increasingly loud minority, rising from the depths to proclaim their dislike for the Dawgs’ head man.  They argued that Romar was a bad playcaller, an inept manipulator of the depth chart, and cited recent player transfers (Phil Nelson, Adrian Oliver) and back-to-back down years as reasons to ditch the coach in favor of a new leader.

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ESPN is reporting that wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh is coming to Seattle.  The free agent has been weighing offers from the Seahawks, Vikings, and his former club, the Cincinnati Bengals, over the weekend.

If these reports are true, it will signify a major upgrade at the wideout position for the Seahawks, who, at one point during the 2008 season, were without their four top receivers.

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I mean, who doesn't want to get with this?

Jon Kitna has been traded to the Dallas Cowboys, and we all know why.  You think Tony Romo would ever have scored with Jessica Simpson were he not the Cowboys QB?  I don’t think so.  Which means a guy like Kitna should be nothing short of pleased that he’s headed to the Big D, where he’ll have his chance to rub elbows with the elite and try and bag a Jessica of his own.  Sure, he may be married with a family, but come on.  This is the NFL.  We all know what goes in those five-star hotel rooms.  Especially as a Dallas Cowboy.  Good luck to Kitna on his quest.

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I love Nate Robinson, but I don’t know if he can take James White.  For those of you who haven’t heard of White, he’s a former University of Cincinnati swingman who gained notoriety while still in college for his prolific dunking abilities.

Since leaving Cincinnati in 2006, White has come to personify the “journeyman” tag, heading from Portland, to Indiana, to San Antonio, to Austin, to Turkey, and now Anaheim.  He’s played in three leagues over that span: the NBA, NBDL, and Turkish Basketball League.  Along with pretty much everyone on the And 1 Mix-Tape Tour, and guys like Harold Miner, Dee Brown, and Henry Bekkering, White is one of those guys who is typecast as a great dunker with little basketball skill, hence his omnipresence on YouTube, rather than on TNT and ESPN.

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Ex-Husky Marquis Cooper missing at sea. It sounds like something out of a movie, but it’s not.  Former University of Washington linebacker Marquis Cooper has been missing off the coast of Florida for over 24 hours now and the situation is looking increasingly bleak.

Cooper, who has spent the past six seasons in the NFL, left on a fishing excursion Saturday with three other men in a 21-foot vessel owned by the ex-Dawg.   The group was expected to return by nightfall, but never made it back to shore.  According to other fisherman who had returned to port, the water had become surprisingly rough over the course of the day.

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