Sonics video of the week: Presidents + Key + 2012

Hopefully we'll be able to see this again REAL soon.

Seattle on the verge of being a five-sport city

There have been rumblings concerning prospective arena builders in the Seattle area for months now. Today, The Seattle Times featured an article in prime position of their Sunday edition, detailing the efforts of a group "possessed" in building a new Sodo arena and bringing NBA and NHL to the Emerald City.

Led by Seattle native hedge-fund manager Christopher Hansen, the group has bought a tract of land just south of the Safeco Field parking garage, and says that there will be no need to worry about "eminent domain" seizures from the city. That suggests that earlier worries about possible business holdouts at the proposed Sodo arena site are no longer a concern.

It also appears that this arena option is much farther along than the rumored Don Levin arena on the eastside. That doesn't proclude Levin from being an NHL owner in Hansen's building, nor from contributing to the Sodo arena financially.

More after the break:

Seahawks Video of the Week: Marshawn + Skittles + Beastquake

I was kind of surprised when the Skittles thing took off after Seattle's Thursday night performance this year. Not because it isn't awesome (I can't get enough of the Skittles shower video, embedded after the break). But because Marshawn had made his love of multi-colored candies before the season started. Talking with ESPN Films, discussed his mother-son bonding tradition along with how he beat dem Saints.
Also, bonus video after the break. As someone currently suffering from a debilitating obsession with Skyrim right now, I found the following clip muy hilarioso. Those are foreign words, right?

Could these be the Hawk's new uniforms?

This is one of the supposedly leaked Nike redesigns of the Hawk's uniforms for 2012. It was shown off with 31 other redesigns sometime early last year or late 2010. I think with a silver helmet and some fancier pants (some blue or green on those silver pants) I could really REALLY come to like these. Note the faint feather stencil on the shoulder pads.

Cortez Kennedy: Hall of Famer

It's a testament to both the ineptitude of 90's hawks and east-coast bias that Cortez took five tries to become a hall-of-famer. Congratulations, best defensive tackle of your generation. You earned it.

Why I love Seattle, Part 2

Even in the offseason, there's a lot to love about the Emerald City.

Rumor is though, that the "offseason" may be a thing of the past around here, if the NHL has its way...

Why I love Seattle, Part 1

Fantastic.