Some paragraphs about Chuck Armstrong, Chris Hansen, Brandon Browner, and Walter Thurmond
Sometimes things happen in such rapid succession it is completely impossible to keep up with them from a making-snarky-tweets perspective, let alone writing about each in real time.
Introducing the North and South of Royal Brougham Movember team — Join or Pledge
There aren’t many of this world that haven’t been touched by cancer in some way. One of the leading cancers for men is prostate cancer, and prostate cancer is an ailment that has touched my family. This is also a fun chance to grow a mustache from scratch. I’ve never had a mustache at all,...
Introducing “The Fringe”
If there’s anything that a Seattle sports blog needs, it’s a catch all for a bunch of other stuff that our writers care about. Previously unrepresented in these pages were our views on life, love, entertainment, and a bunch of immature shit that needs no mention on this post. While “The Fringe” may conjure images...
Sonics to stay in Sacramento
The city of Seattle didn’t lose today — the city of Sacramento won. There’s nothing that the fantastic ownership group of Chris Hansen and Steve Ballmer could have done differently in their quest to bring the NBA back to the Emerald City today. The goal of getting the Sonics back in town was defeated a...
Bad news for future Sonics could be great news for future Sonics
Update 6:15 — This tweet from Tony Bizjak, a writer for the Sacramento Bee. The bid to move Kings to Seattle – for this year – was rejected today, but no vote on sale. It seems the Hansen group is still in play. — Tony Bizjak (@TonyBizjak) April 30, 2013 6:03 PM — A good...
About the Seattle Mariners buying controlling interest in ROOT Sports Northwest
For the past several years the Mariners and their fans have been forced to sit back as their competitors and relative contemporaries signed enormous television contracts with cable sports networks. Mariners fans set 2015 as a marker for when the team would be able to cash in themselves, they had an opt-out clause in their...
Royal Brougham Cast Episode 1: Comedian Kris Brannon, also known as Sonics Guy
In this week’s episode, the inaugural re-branded episode, Mark and Casey talk to Kris about his comedy, and talk about shopping carts at Costco, and how the people pushing them are ruining the image of Tacoma. Follow Kris at @Sonicsguy and follow Mark at @MarkinPerson
Robert Swift’s Former House in Sammamish is Icky
I remember the day that Robert Swift got drafted. He was a dorky looking, red-headed, lanky seven-footer out of Bakersfield, California. I’ve never been to Bakersfield, but as an avid Loveline listener growing up, Adam Carolla had poisoned the well in terms of my opinion of Swift’s hometown. As Swift began to add dozens of...
How should we cover the Kings while they are still the Kings and not the Sonics?
I can’t speak for everyone, but for the first time in a long time I returned to one of my favorite websites when I was in high school today, www.hoopshype.com. Some things have changed since I left, but they still have ultra-concise scouting reports on basically every player in the NBA and salary data for...
Landmark Day in Seattle Sports as Seattle Supersonics Return Seems Imminent
As fans of Seattle sports, if there’s one thing we’ve grown used to it is disappointment. We’ve seen our teams reach some very high heights, and we’ve seen our athletes leave in the midst of those heights. We’ve seen three separate ownership groups step in as the savior of our three major sports teams, and...
Some Guy Known as McDreamy Buys Tully’s, So You Can Keep Boycotting Starbucks
When I started this blog I never thought in a million years that I’d use the word McDreamy. I never thought it would be in a headline, and I never thought I’d be writing about coffee. Patrick Dempsey, who plays Dr. McDreamy on Grey’s Anatomy has snatched Tully’s from the jaws of another local coffee...
Potential Sacramento Kings Sale to Seattle Sonics Ownership Group Recap for January 9
If you’ve turned on a TV or radio today you know that there is a story permeating all genres of media that the Sacramento Kings have been to Chris Hansen’s group of future NBA owners. It seems like at this point those reports were premature, but that in some way, shape, or form the Maloofs—who...
