Blue Friday in Seattle usually means you or your co-workers are wearing Seattle Seahawks jerseys or some such to work in preparation for the upcoming football action on Sunday. Now you can add a helmet to whatever spirited ensemble you’ve got going. Seahawks linebacker K.J. Wright has an official helmet as part of the team, but in a tweet he’s wearing a helmet filter over his head to promote a new Snapchat gimmick for the team’s fans on social media. The filter will be available throughout the weekend in the Seattle metro area for interested 12s. “Enjoy your Blue Friday.… Read More
The most dominant team of geeks in the second season of IT Sports League softball proved to be Whitepages as they took the title last week from defending champs SimplyMeasured. The Whitepages Wombats, captained by revenue accounting manager Erin Schindler, beat SimplyMeasured 15-8 at Seattle’s Queen Anne Field and finished the season with a 9-1 record. Whitepages reached the championship game by beating a team from Quantum, 24-12. SimplyMeasured, which took the title last summer, finished with two losses this year. They beat TINYPulse 21-8 to reach the final game. Quantum beat TINYPulse 11-8 to finish third this year. TINYPulse… Read More
Redfin is gearing up to go public on Friday, but the Seattle tech-powered residential real estate brokerage already has one big fan in its court. Diana Taurasi, the all-time leading scorer in WNBA history and three-time WNBA champion, likes to chill out with Redfin’s popular mobile app when she’s not draining three-pointers for the Phoenix Mercury. Taurasi says she can’t afford most of the houses she browses on Redfin, “but I really like to look.” And Taurasi, who was in Seattle for the WNBA All Star game this past weekend, was surprised to learn that Redfin is based in Seattle… Read More
After American Airlines threw Tacoma Rainiers infielder D.J. Peterson some sort of curveball, he and his teammates Daniel Vogelbach, Pat Light, and Mark Lowe were forced to take a very pricey Uber. Peterson tweeted out Lowe’s Instagram post, explaining that an issue with their flight led them to take a 7-hour Uber ride from Phoenix to Albuquerque, in the middle of the night, to make Monday’s game. The ride cost them $683.52. Thanks at @AmericanAir for making @DanielVogelbach and I do this last night. #bebetter #havebettercustomerservice #Unbelievable pic.twitter.com/QlWoPgL5pw — D.J. Peterson (@DJPeterson) July 17, 2017 The players were lucky to… Read More
Spoiler alert: This report doesn’t give away any major plot twists in “17776,” SB Nation’s online presentation, but if you want to stay totally in the dark, wait to read this item until after you’ve checked it out. What do space probes and football have in common? A weird and wonderful tale on the sports website SB Nation provides an answer, but you have to work for it. As readers scroll through conversations from the future, author and illustrator Jon Bois introduces readers to Nine, Ten and Juice — referring to NASA’s Pioneer 9 and Pioneer 10 probes plus the… Read More
