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Now or Never for Sounders
As April comes to a close with only a single victory tallied in league play thus far, the Sounders face a tough test. Their next five games come against Philadelphia, Kansas City, San Jose,
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How’s Your Bracket Doing?
Let’s check how you did last weekend: 11 Minnesota over 6 UCLA 12 Oregon over 5 Oklahoma State 12 Ole Miss over 5 Wisconsin 12 California over 5 UNLV 13 La Salle over 4
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Seattle NHL Hockey Team Names
One of the more popular posts on SSC has been our question to our visitors asking, “What Should The New Seattle NHL Team be Named?” The poll logged over 1,300 votes and from the
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The Sound Off for March 3
News, giveaways, and items that didn’t call for their own post this past week and ended up here. SSC’s Google + page is up and you can expect to see unique content and giveaways
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SeattleSportsCentral is the largest independent Seattle sports blog and message board on the internet. SSC was started in 2010 by Paul Novak and has grown to feature its own stable of great writers that
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MLB The Show 13 Team Rankings
All team rankings have now been released for the highly anticipated MLB The Show 13 for the Playstation 3. MLB The Show 13 will be in stores on March 5th. MLB The Show 13
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Velocity and Location Data Part 3: Tommy Burns
In my last two posts, I looked at how pitchers’ threw when it came to location in the strike zone, and where they had success, especially when it came to velocity. I watched Howard
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Velocity and Location Data Part 2: NPB Pitchers
Yesterday, I looked at MLB starters and the locations they usually threw to and had success in according to velocity. I also wanted to get another look, this time in the NPB (Japan), using
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Velocity and Location Data Part 1: MLB Starters
I’ve always thought that we need to be more specific when we scout pitchers. I am guilty of it as well, as we have seen that just a 1 MPH difference in velocity is
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Reports Felix Hernandez Agrees to new Deal with Mariners
The USA Today’s Bob Nightengale just reported on Twitter that the Mariners and their ace, Felix Hernandez have come to an agreement on a 7-year contract that will be worth $175 million. The Mariners
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Seattle SuperSonics Saga Continues
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… there was a team called the Seattle SuperSonics. Well it wasn’t that long ago and unless you live light-years from Seattle it wasn’t in
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Rams and Panthers and Hawks…. Oh My!
I have to make an admission right at the onset here: this is the third version of this article. The first two were not, shall we say, family friendly. I was very frustrated watching
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2012 Seahawks Schedule Predictions: Part 2
Here is a quick recap of my predictions on the first 4 games: 9-9-12 @ Arizona: Final Score: Seattle 23 Arizona 16 9-16-12 H Cowboys: “Century Link Field is Tony Romo’s personal house of
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Madden 13 Top 10 QB Ratings
EA Sports has released the Top 10 rankings for the QB position in Madden 13. Each week they’ll release their top 10 in each position, this being the first. No Seahawks, obviously, have made
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Husky Football: One Day, Eight New Commitments
This was announced yesterday but it’s pretty big news for the Washington Huskies football team so I’m going to add it despite the tardiness. Eight high school athletes commited to play for the Huskies
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2012 Top 250 Fantasy Football Payer Rankings
Football is just around the corner and with the NFL gearing up soon, it’s time to get out your draft boards and get ready for the 2012 fantasy football season as well. Athlon Sports
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10 Funny and Awesome Fantasy Football Team Names for 2012
Seattle Sports Central has come up with our list of 10 funny and awesome fantasy football team names to use in your leagues this coming season. Last year our funny name list was a huge
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Most of Seattle Will be Cheering on the Heat
As soon as the Thunder won the Western Conference from the Spurs and advanced to the NBA Finals, most former Sonics supporters became Miami Heat fans. The Thunder wouldn’t be in the position they
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Peyton Manning and Tim Tebow
All of the reports as of late are making it pretty clear that “Gods gift to football,” Peyton Manning won’t be playing for the 12th Man next season. The Denver Post was the first
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Guti out at least four weeks
Mariners centerfielder Franklin Gutierrez has suffered a torn pectoral injury and is likely out at least four weeks. Jack Z reported the latest on the injury earlier today. Guti was one of, if not the highlight
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Seattle Mariners 2012 Projected Starting Line-up
Update: Added career batting stats from the line-up spot projected. Spring Training for the Mariners has been underway for a little over a week now. Four days ago we caught wind of manager Eric
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