According to Peter Abraham, Hideki Matsui would be willing to move to first base next season."I’m pretty sure I could play the infield as well, at first base," he said. "I’m going to make sure I prepare myself to play

One night after recording only two hits in the opener in Safeco Field, the Yankees' lineup broke out for 7 runs and 12 hits as they defeated the Mariners by a score of 7-4. The Red Sox lost in Texas,

I've shaved and cut my hair," said Sanderson, who plays Sheriff Bud Dearborn in the Alan Ball vampire drama, premiering tonight. "I've played a lot of renegade misfits in my career. I saw this as a chance to play a

As coach Butch Goncharoff awaits his first child, his Bellevue High School football team rolled past Central Catholic of Portland 41-13 at PGE Park in the Les Schwab Best of the West.

Zaun hit a game-ending grand slam in the 13th inning, and Toronto beat the Rays 7-4 on Saturday to extend their season-high winning streak to seven games.

Clinton brushed aside questions about Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin during appearances at New York City's annual Labor Day parade and later during a stop on Staten Island.

Boeing workers look toward a long strike

Frantic residents in the sprawling Manshiyet Nasr slum were digging by hand and trying to lift huge rocks to reach any survivors, shouting out the names of relatives and family members trapped below. Haidar Baghdadi, the parliamentarian for the region,

by Craig Welch THE MUSCLE-BOUND beasts sprawling across the wet wood were males, all of them, big-whiskered, furry fellows in their prime...

With its quarterback struggling and its defense making a small lead hold, Skyline put the ball in Gino Simone's hands. And he did the rest...

Injuries forced No. 18 Oregon to play untested quarterbacks last week against Washington. In an easy victory against Utah State, the Ducks...

Picketers marked the first day of the Machinists strike against Boeing, while the union's national president talked strategy.

The Bellevue teachers strike enters its second week, with salary the last sticking point on both sides.

Bill Melendez, an Emmy-winning animator who brought Charlie Brown and the "Peanuts" gang to blithe, blockheaded life on television and in films — and who helped keep them alive after the death of their creator, Charles Schulz — died Tuesday

Last year's final ranking in parentheses Team Comment 1 New England (1) Years of playing footsie with supermodels and actresses apparently...

Alan Ball, creator of "Six Feet Under" and "American Beauty," is the force behind two more controversy-courting projects this month. His vampire miniseries, "True Blood," makes its debut Sept. 7 on HBO, while his feature-film directing debut, "Towelhead," moves into

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Last week's ranking in parentheses Team 1 Tampa Bay (2) First instant replay upholds A-Rod homer, but Cadillac Williams charged with fumble...

On the opposite side of the country, hard up against the Canadian border, the Seahawks start their season with a stiff eye-opener, waking up to just the kind of road game that caught up to Seattle last season.

What happened seven years ago colors American life today. There are the two wars, of course. But in smaller ways, too: We sing "God Bless America" at the ballpark. We weigh "evil" as a campaign issue. We slip off our