usatoday.com - 10/21/2008
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Nickels said Seattle has already presented the outline of a new plan to Washington state lawmakers, seeking to authorize the use of local tax revenues currently going to the Washington state convention center in Seattle. The city wants that money to be used instead to remodel the building the ...
nbarumors.info - 10/14/2008
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nbarumors.info —
For the first time in 41 years, the
city of Seattle is without a NBA franchise. However,...
former SuperSonics star Gary Payton, recently revealed in an interview that this will not be the case three years from now.
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Payton Supports Seattle
deadspin.com - 10/27/2008
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deadspin.com —
On the weekend before the NBA finally returns
to action after its six-week sabbatical after the NBA...
Finals, we must take one more moment to remember one city that will not be joining the rest of us in our journey this season as Oklahoma City tries to ...
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David Stern Invites Seattle to Watch Their Ex-Girlfriend ...
seattlepi.nwsource.com - 10/24/2008
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seattlepi.nwsource.com —
A new tax-diversion plan could give the city
the $75 million it needs to get the ball...
rolling on a KeyArena renovation and, eventually, the return of the NBA to Seattle.
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A new NBA team here?
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Holmgren: Seahawks Are Like A High School Team
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... :“It reminds me of when I first started coaching at Sacred Heart High School, you know? We were kind of overmatched all the time, playing against better players for a while.” “They gave you everything they had. And you loved them for it. But it was going to be tough each week,” Holmgren said of those days when he was a coach and high school history teacher So that should just about do it for the city of Seattle and sports. The Mariners lost 100 games with a $100 million+ payroll, the Sonics decided that Oklahoma was a better place for a basketball team , and the city’s major ...
USAToday.com : Seattle mayor still eyeing NBA’s return
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... with these 147 individually elected members of the state Legislature, to threaten them and bully them,” House Majority Leader Lynn Kessler, D-Hoquiam, said in July. “God love the fans, but we have a state to run. And I think the city of Seattle, they have to go out and make their case to the state.”
The city, as I have been saying forever, has to educate and communicate with people like Kessler that are existing in a low information world.
The Seattle mayor feels “the door is open” to the league returning to what would be a ...
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The symbolism of his tragic death is really amazing. People loved him for no particular reason ...
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