Longtime 950 KJR radio personality John Clayton is moving his Sports Saturday show to Seattle’s newest sports talk station.
At 3:10 PM today, the new 710 ESPN KIRO radio announced that Clayton would be making the move from KJR to ESPN, a “big announcement” that had been teased all afternoon.
In addition to Clayton’s duties at KJR, he is perhaps better known to most sports fans as ESPN’s NFL insider, dubbed “The Professor” for his vast knowledge of pro football.
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Here at Seattle Sportsnet, we pride ourselves on bringing readers news and analysis they want to hear about.
That’s why we dedicate this very brief and very gracious post to FSN analyst Nicole Zaloumis.
Why, you ask? Allow me to explain.
You see, on your average day, we receive about three or four search terms that link directly to our site. For instance, let’s say you Google “Dave Libbey.” Chances are, if you dig through the search pages long enough, you’ll find your way to an article on this site that includes the term “Dave Libbey.” You click on our article, and that brings you to this site.
Like I alluded to before, that kind of thing happens about three times or less per day, where someone will directly find their way to SeattleSportsnet.com using a unique search term.
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University of Connecticut men’s basketball player Stanley Robinson looks like a grandfather. And yet his birthdate is listed as July 14, 1988.
For those of you adept at adding and subtracting in your head, that makes Robinson 20 years old, going on 21.
Perhaps my eyes deceive me, but if Robinson were a Dominican baseball player, it’s all but certain that we would have to check and recheck his birth certificate to confirm the man’s age.
Robinson has the physique and athleticism of a 20-year-old, but the mug of an aging Tim Meadows. You remember Tim Meadows, right? Former Saturday Night Live cast member who was mauled by both a tiger and a bear after filming Mean Girls in 2004…ring a bell?
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Regardless of who you are, or who you root for, this week is sports heaven.
The Seattle Mariners are tied for first place and hopes are high at least for at least the next seven days with the start of the season tonight against the Twins of Minneapolis. Felix Hernandez is the leading Cy Young candidate in our eyes and we are all making cases for how the Mariners can pull the impossible and be this season’s Tampa Bay Rays.
The NCAA Basketball National Championship game is also tonight. While we are switching back and forth between the Mariners game and the basketball game, we can all become Michigan State Spartan fans as we will a state that is down on its luck to victory.
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Okay, so the 2009 Major League Baseball season technically got under way last night, but we’re not counting that. A 4-1 borefest between Atlanta and Philadelphia? Outside of the overzealous fantasy baseball fanatic here and there, few people found much to be excited about with yesterday’s opening contest. So we’ll just pretend that the Sunday night ESPN money game never happened and move on to the real thing today.
Your Seattle Mariners are in Minnesota this evening to take on the Twins. First pitch is at 5:10 PM, PDT, and there are plenty of new faces on the M’s 25-man roster.
Nine of the 25 didn’t even play a game with the team last season, and of today’s ten starters, only five were members of the 2008 Opening Day roster (SP Felix Hernandez, C Kenji Johjima, 2B Jose Lopez, SS Yuniesky Betancourt, and 3B Adrian Beltre). The rest of this evening’s lineup, in its expected batting order, is as follows:
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