• How to fake a sports conversation this holiday season

  A quick how-to for non-sportsball people to fake their way through sports conversations among family, friends, and more.

  • Dyer Oxley
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  Seattle baseball fans are feeling Humpy these days

  Humpy Fever has taken over Seattle. Baseball fans are rooting on the Mariners with their new favorite mascot: A life-vest and water-wings-clad salmon who has long been the underdog, er, underfish, of the Salmon Run during the seventh-inning stretch of home games.

  • Casey Martin
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  The pressure’s on for the Mariners. Can Seattle keep its playoff run alive?

  We'll find out Friday if the Seattle Mariners have what it takes to make it to the American League Championship Series for the fourth time in their 49-season history. That's what's at stake in game five of the team's division series against the Detroit Tigers at T-Mobile Park. To catch up on some M's history and get a look at what may be ahead, KUOW’s Kevin Kniestedt checked in with longtime Seattle sportswriter Art Thiel.

  • Kevin Kniestedt
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  Can the M's make a deep playoff run? Manager Dan Wilson encourages club to stay loose

  If you’ve been feeling a little lighter, noticing a spring in the step of your neighbors — it might be because of the Seattle Mariners.

  • Jason Burrows
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  Read in Japanese: Why Ichiro 'was everything' to Seattle Mariners fans

  シアトルT-モバイル・パークにマリナーズの歴史を彩った名選手を称える新たな記念プレートが登場した。さらに来年には、銅像建立の計画も発表された。 その選手は世界が誇る鈴木イチロー氏だ。

  • Natalie Akane Newcomb
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  Why Ichiro 'was everything' to Seattle Mariners fans

  T-Mobile Park is sporting some new bling: A freshly unveiled plaque celebrating one of the most beloved Seattle Mariners of all time. The team retired Ichiro Suzuki’s number on Saturday — and sent the Hall of Fame outfielder off with a great big love fest from Seattle.

  • Natalie Akane Newcomb
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  The Blue Jays are coming! Canadian fans, not so much

  Just how many royal blue Blue Jays baseball jerseys and hats will grace the streets around Seattle’s T-Mobile Park and SoDo this weekend? That’s the big question as the Seattle Mariners, local hotels, restaurants and hospitality businesses cross their fingers ahead of Blue Jays Weekend. KUOW’s Kim Malcolm looked for answers.

  • Kim Malcolm
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  Ichiro Suzuki elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

  Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for the Hall, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he was elected along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.

  • Associated Press