Houston Transfer, Former Five-Star Recruit Isiah Harwell Commits to Gonzaga
Before he committed to Houston out of high school in September 2024, Isiah Harwell had the Gonzaga Bulldogs as one of his four finalists, along with Texas and California.
About a year and a half later, the 6-6 guard turned back to that list, committing to transfer to the Zags after his freshman season with the Cougars. First reported by ESPN’s Jeff Borzello, Harwell made the decision official with an Instagram post, captioned “Go Zags!!!” He is the first portal addition for GU in what will surely be a busy offseason.
A five-star prospect and ranked in the consensus top 20 of his class, Harwell showcased elite ability on both sides of the ball coming out of Utah’s Wasatch Academy. He suffered an ACL tear prior to his senior season, which was eventually reaggravated and lingered into his first year with the Cougs. The nagging injury led to increased inefficiency and a decrease in playing time down the stretch, but Gonzaga now looks to bring out the best of Harwell.
Fateful Forward Pack Errors Accumulate for Seawolves in 34-25 Road Loss to Anthem
Things didn’t go according to Seattle’s plan in Charlotte. While the Seawolves’ ability to create threats on offense was clear, an uncharacteristically bad day for the forward pack and some mistakes by Rhyno Herbst set them back points, meters, and eventually led to the visitors dropping the whole game without a single extra point in the table.
The final score of 34-25 was just too great a gap for the Seawolves to earn that bonus point for being within seven, but not great enough for all the mistakes they made to not have been the difference. In truth, both sides looked like they had quite a bit to work on despite their evident talent.
Anthem Rugby Carolina entered the match having gone 1-33 in their entire history, having given up 1305 points while scoring just 663 points in those games per the North American Rugby Database (NARDb).
And yet they were not to be underestimated. With Agustín Cavalieri at the helm, the team brought on some MLR heavy-hitters and notched its first win in team history, 39-26 over the California Legion to begin the 2026 MLR season.
WNBA Draft Preview: Storm Head Into 2026 With Big Shoes to Fill, But Plenty of Flexibility
If you found yourself in the recesses of Climate Pledge Arena for some Seattle Storm basketball last summer, chances are you saw one of the following:
A passionate Skylar Diggins hyping up her bench after a 3-pointer or a timely assist.
WNBA president Nneka Ogwumike settling into the post to hit a turnaround jumper to get Seattle rolling.
First-time All-Star Gabby Williams notching one of her three steals per game to flip the momentum to the home team.
The chances of one of those three things happening were practically 100% every night.
Those odds stand at 0% after a wild start to free agency.
Seahawks’ Desire to Boost Backfield Worst Kept Secret Heading Into 2026 NFL Draft
With a microphone in front of them, Seattle Seahawks general manager John Schneider and Mike Macdonald haven’t been shy voicing their confidence in a running back room that has drawn plenty of questions from outside the Virginia Mason Athletic Center.
Even after letting Ken Walker III leave for a record-setting free agent contract with the Kansas City Chiefs and choosing not to make any external additions aside from taking a one-year flier on former Green Bay Packers backup Emmanuel Wilson, with the knowledge Zach Charbonnet likely will miss at least half of the 2026 season recovering from a torn ACL, both members of Seattle’s brain trust have suggested critics may be overlooking the talent still remaining on the roster.
But while Schneider and Macdonald may be higher on Holani, Wilson, and the Seahawks’ current stable of backs than those who aren’t in the building, reading deeper into their comments in recent weeks and reported pre-draft visits, they’re also clearly looking for upgrades to help offset the impact of Walker’s exit and Charbonnet’s injury.
Crawford Completes Comeback with Walk-Off Single, Mariners Best Astros 8-7
“J.P.! J.P.! J.P.!” rang out the chorus of 43,294 happy, exhausted spectators on Saturday night. Perhaps some of the Central Washington students among them (who had a special discount for the game and got some CWU-themed jerseys) were planning on continuing the night on Lower Queen Anne or Capitol Hill; the older and wiser CWU alums in the crowd were probably set to take their modes of transportation home so as to get some shuteye. All of them shared in the electricity of the evening’s end.
Mariners shortstop J.P. Crawford hadn’t been part of much of the first two weeks of the season for Seattle, nursing a shoulder injury sustained in Spring Training, and the first five games of his season saw him hit a paltry .118 over 26 plate appearances.
“I was going crazy not being able to play,” Crawford told Mariners TV’s Ryan Rowland-Smith after the game.
The Mariners shortstop had put together a 1-3 game with two walks during Seattle’s skid-breaking win on Friday, hitting leadoff with Brendan Donovan out of the lineup with an illness. But Saturday night saw him punch through a pair of massive bases-loaded singles to bookend the team’s biggest comeback of the young year.
Cougars Portal Tracker: Who’s Departing, Who’s Arriving in Pullman?
Dealing with the realities of modern college athletics, the Washington State Cougars have seen a mass exodus of players from their 2025-26 roster hitting the transfer portal this spring.
Who will be departing Pullman? And which players will come to town as replacements from the portal? Check out our tracker often, as all scholarship players that announce their intentions to leave Washington State or to join the Cougars will be added in real time.
Kraken Goalie Nikke Kokko ‘Comfortable’ in First NHL Start as Seattle Beats Flames Amid Elimination
The Seattle Kraken picked up a solid 4-1 win over the visiting Calgary Flames on Saturday night at Climate Pledge Arena, winning their second straight game after a rough stretch.
Before the game, the Kraken learned they were mathematically eliminated from Stanley Cup Playoff contention by virtue of the Kings’ win earlier Saturday.
Kokko’s Big Night
Both of Seattle’s main goalies, Joey Daccord and backup Philipp Grubauer, were out with lower-body injuries. Matt Murray is away from the team tending to a personal matter.
Randy Arozarena’s Mammoth Fifth Inning Homer Reverses Hitting Woes, M’s Beat Stros 9-6
The look on Andrés Muñoz’ face told it all as Leo Rivas stepped on third to complete the final out: exhaustion and catharsis.
It was a feeling that reverberated around Mariners country as the team won its first game and nearly a week, put more than two runs on the board for the first time in a few days, and had a solid defensive showing after scores of innings full of botched glovework.
The Astros’ struggling pitching and the Mariners’ struggling offense both showed early on Friday.
Ichiro’s statue unveiling outside T-Mobile Park on Friday night encountered an unusual mishap: the bat cracked and bent at the handle as the tarp was taken off to unveil it.
It was the proverbial picture that said a thousand words about the Mariners offense. Over the first 13 games, the Mariners had failed to score before extras in four of them. The whole batting crew had looked about as lost as three Roman legions in the Teutoberg Forest.
Analysis: What Does Underlying Data Say about Mariners’ Hitting Abyss?
There have been a lot of bad results with the bat in the first 13 games the Mariners have played in 2026, and for every bad result, there are 1,000 ways to quantify and describe it: worst in the league in average (.184), on-base percentage (.280), and slugging percentage (.301). The league’s second-lowest hard-hit rate (34.2%) and highest whiff rate (32.9%). Bat speed declines for Cal Raleigh, Julio Rodríguez, Josh Naylor, and others.
But with 149 games left to go, how much of this is actually meaningful and predictive? How much of it is pure noise?
The top lines are too early to tell right now; any answers will come from underlying data.
There isn’t much that can be told from the first 13 games as to which disappointing slash stats are because a good player is in a slump and which are because the player is plain overmatched. Both Aaron Judge and Willi Castro entered Friday with a .222 batting average, but it’s safe to say that their career OPSes of 1.025 and .696, respectively, are good indicators of who is more likely to get hot.
Jerone Morton Departs as Cougars Continue to Lose Talent to Transfer Portal
The transfer portal has struck again for Washington State, as the Cougars have now lost two of the four remaining players from the 2025-2026 season.
According to 247Sports, both Jerone Morton and Brunel Madzou have entered the transfer portal, leaving the Cougars with only one scholarship player - Dominik Robinson - still on the roster from last year’s team.
Seattle Storm Free Agency Tracker: Signings, Departures and Rumors
As expected, WNBA free agency began this week and quickly picked up steam once it started rolling. The Seattle Storm are already looking at making an entirely new team heading into the 2026 season.
Veterans are on their way out, and it remains to be seen how much interest the team will get from unrestricted free agents. More than two-thirds of the WNBA players are free agents, and a lot of money will be moving around under the new CBA.
Teams have to act fast ahead of the WNBA Draft on Monday, April 13, to see how their rosters will look before making rookie selections.
Official 30/Local Visits Tracker: Who Have Seahawks Met With Leading Up to 2026 NFL Draft?
With the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine in the rearview mirror and free agency well underway, the Seattle Seahawks and all 32 NFL teams are in the midst of scheduling and conducting their pre-draft top-30 visits.
In this process, each NFL team can bring in up to 30 players to their respective facilities for interviews and meetings with coaches as well as medical examinations and physicals. In addition, teams can also bring in local players for official visits, which do not count as one of the top-30 visits. While these on-site meetings are only part of the evaluation process leading up to the three-day event, they can play a critical role in determining where each player ends up on draft weekend.
Which players have already met with the Seahawks or are scheduled to come to town for top-30 visits and local visits before the 2026 NFL Draft?
Kraken Snap Skid with Shootout Win Against Vegas
It looked like the same story.
The Vegas Golden Knights executed a 4-on-2 rush, finished off by Brett Howden just 1:11 into the third period at Climate Pledge Arena on Thursday to put the Seattle Kraken down 3-1.
After losing 10 of their past 11 games, including five straight in regulation entering Thursday, the Kraken’s playoff hopes are only alive in a minute mathematical sense. Crumbling down the stretch, unable to find the urgency needed to string together positive results, Seattle could only be expected to pack it in once again.
However, after Berkly Catton benefited from a fortuitous bounce to cut it to 3-2, Bobby McMann tied the game midway through the third period. The Kraken played through an eventful overtime period before Matty Beniers and Catton scored in the shootout to lift Seattle to a 4-3 win.
Nneka Ogwumike Leaving Storm, Skylar Diggins May Follow
Veteran forward and unrestricted free agent Nneka Ogwumike will not be returning to the Seattle Storm for the 2026 season and is receiving strong interest from the Los Angeles Sparks in free agency, per ESPN’s Alexa Philippou.
Ogwumike confirmed her departure from the Storm with a farewell post to the franchise on social media. She has also met with the Minnesota Lynx, per Philippou.
The Storm may be losing multiple of their premier veterans, as point guard Skylar Diggins is also reportedly in talks with the Chicago Sky, per Beta Basket’s Roberta F. Rodrigues.
Huskies Rebuilt Defensive Line Taking Shape During Spring Ball
A lot of things have changed since Elinneus Davis boarded a plane for the first time in his life to visit a school 1,400 miles away from his hometown of Moorhead, Minnesota.
Since that June day in 2022, he’s seen coaches come and go, along with every defensive lineman he got to know when he started practicing in 2023. For the second straight year, the Washington Huskies football team will feature a defensive line with mostly new faces.
He’s used to the changes, just like when he learned to handle air travel. It’s not easy at first, but one gets used to it.
Redhawks Star Will Heimbrodt Focused on ‘Little Things’ to Take Next Step After Breakout Season
Remaining poised after taking a crash course as a key reserve during his redshirt freshman season, Will Heimbrodt understood a larger role would be in his grasp coming into his third season on campus with the Seattle Redhawks. He simply needed to capitalize on the opportunity.
Doing just that, Heimbrodt earned himself his first full-time starting gig rolling into his sophomore season, ready to take flight on a team with high aspirations entering the West Coast Conference. With several of his former teammates graduating, the Redhawks were counting on him to become a staple in their lineup, feeling like coach Chris Victor and the coaching staff had even more confidence in him than he did.
Heimbrodt played well in spring practices, staying consistent with his training throughout the summer and by Seattle’s first game against the University of Denver, Heimbrodt received the call as a starter for the first time. Helping lead his team to an 84-73 win, he finished the game with 24 points on 9-14 shooting, eight rebounds, and two blocks, putting the rest of the conference on notice early.
Seahawks Leaving No Stone Unturned Looking at Talented Cornerback Class in 2026 NFL Draft
Slated to pick last in the first round by virtue of winning Super Bowl LX, the Seattle Seahawks could go any number of directions on the opening night of the 2026 NFL Draft, including trading out of the round entirely to recoup additional selections in later rounds.
But while the Seahawks have other needs such as edge rusher and running back that could be addressed early with their first selection, regardless of whether they stick and pick or trade down, if the team’s reported official 30 visits serve as any indication, cornerback appears to be at the top of general manager John Schneider’s wish list. Out of 18 players reported so far to fly out to Seattle, seven of them played corner at some point during their collegiate careers.
This shouldn’t necessarily come as a surprise development, as the Seahawks lost four-year starter Riq Woolen to the Eagles in free agency and while they did retain Josh Jobe on a three-year contract, coach Mike Macdonald has limited experience to lean on behind All-Pro Devon Witherspoon and Jobe on the depth chart. Third-year defender Nehemiah Pritchett has started one game in his career, veteran Shemar Jean-Charles spent all of last year on the practice squad and has two career starts, and free agent signee Noah Igbinoghene has started 17 out of 69 games played, hardly living up to his first round billing after being drafted 30th overall by the Dolphins in 2020.
Mark Machtolf Makes History as Gonzaga Baseball Keeps Rolling
After another week of games, Gonzaga baseball (17-14, 6-3 WCC) continues to play a well-rounded brand of baseball. The Zags have now won four of their last five and 10 of their last 12 after taking two out of three from Pepperdine (10-22, 5-4 WCC) and sweeping a two-game midweek set with Washington (15-18, 6-6 Big Ten).
During this stretch, a historic milestone was reached while a portion of the pitching staff pieced together stellar efforts.
Vibes are high for the Bulldogs heading to a big weekend series against Portland, so what has driven even more success as of late?
Mark Machtolf Gets Career Win No. 638, Becomes All-Time Gonzaga Leader
Now, after GU finished off its second victory over UW, head coach Mark Machtolf sits at 640 career wins. But Saturday’s 4-3 win versus the Waves not only clinched the series, but Machtolf’s spot atop the mountain as he passed his predecessor, Steve Herz, who secured 637 wins during his 24-year tenure in Spokane and is honored in the current stadium’s name.
Major Domino Falls: Kraken and Ron Francis Part Ways as Franchise Seeks ‘New Direction’
Ron Francis will be stepping down as the Seattle Kraken’s president of hockey operations at the end of the 2025-26 regular season, which will conclude on April 16. The move was announced by the team on Wednesday, described as a mutual agreement between Francis and Kraken CEO Tod Leiweke.
It is not a firing, as both sides framed it as the right time for a “thoughtful transition” and a chance for the organization to “move in a new direction.”
Francis, 63, had been with the Kraken since July 2019 as the franchise’s very first general manager. He built the team from scratch, overseeing the expansion draft, hiring the first coach, setting up the AHL affiliate, and navigating the team launch amid the COVID era. He deserves credit for helping get this franchise off the ground.
Three Trade-Down Scenarios for Seahawks During 2026 NFL Draft
It’s well-documented that the Seahawks have just four draft picks in the upcoming 2026 draft. That could mean the Seahawks aren’t enthused about the depth of the talent pool in this class. Whatever it means, it’s because they shipped fourth and fifth round picks to New Orleans for Rashid Shaheed (worth it). Cleveland agreed to send their 2026 sixth rounder for Seattle to send them Nick Harris and a seventh rounder.
Roy Robertson-Harris went to the Seahawks from the Jaguars, to whom Seattle shipped a sixth round pick.
For that reason, Seattle has just four picks in the first, second, third, and sixth rounds.
As we know, John Schneider is one of the bigger wheeler-and-dealers on draft day. He’s as savvy as any general manager in the NFL when trading down in the draft. By virtue of the Seahawks winning the Super Bowl, they own the last pick of the first round.
Will Schneider opt to gain another pick or two and sacrifice his first-round pick in the process? It’s certainly possible.
Let’s explore three scenarios for the Seahawks trading down to recoup a pick or two later in the draft.
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