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All these years after Mexico City Olympics, John Carlos still taking a stand

Last updated Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 5:45pm

SEATTLE -- Here was John Carlos, an unapologetic crusader, feeling vulnerable. He looked at his mother, Violis, and tiptoed toward the one question he had spent four decades trying to ask.

This was 2008, 40 years after Carlos had lifted his black-gloved fist into the air at the Mexico City Olympics, teaming with Tommie Smith to make perhaps the most shocking political statement in sports history. Carlos summoned his courage again as he peered into Mom's eyes.

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New Seahawks, without Mike Holmgren, firmly entrenched in new regime

Jerry Brewer The Seattle Times

Last updated Monday, October 24, 2011 - 5:07pm

RENTON, Wash. -- Leroy Hill, the new old head on the Seahawks' active roster, understands how to handle Mike Holmgren Week perfectly.

The linebacker just turned 29 last month, but his seven-year Seahawks run means that he has been in Seattle long enough to see this franchise transform from a Holmgren-centric perennial winner to a Holmgren-less dysfunctional disaster to a Holmgren-unnecessary ambitious reinvention. Hill, who has more seniority than other player on the 53-man roster now that Marcus Trufant is on injured reserve, knows exactly how he'll react when the Seahawks visit Cleveland, Holmgren's new team, on Sunday in a collision of past and present.

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Soccer passion fuels Adrian Hanauer's drive with MLS' Sounders FC

Jerry Brewer, The Seattle Times McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Monday, July 4, 2011 - 5:14pm

SEATTLE -- A little boy, 2 years old, kicks a soccer ball around the backyard. He's barely big enough to handle his round obsession, but he keeps running and kicking, running and kicking, running and kicking. He asks his mother to stand and clap while he plays.

Nostalgic and embarrassed at once, Adrian Hanauer's face turns a pinkish color. Maybe he would turn completely red if he hadn't heard his mother, Lenore, tell that story for years. Now, though, he accepts the tale as part of his idyllic love for a game that still fascinates him.

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Melvin Jones beat the odds in a rare way

Jerry Brewer, Seattle Times McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 4:19pm

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Melvin Jones celebrated like a basketball player, of course. Hoops got him here, as did his motley family, and now came the moment he always figured would turn him into "one of the happiest people walking the streets."

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Lawrie plans to continue her softball work in Canada and United States, possibly Japan

Jerry Brewer, The Seattle Times

Last updated Wednesday, January 5, 2011 - 5:30pm

SEATTLE -- Danielle Lawrie is calm, at least for her. She still floats between feisty and fearsome, but she's doing her best to hide her trademark competitiveness right now. She smothers it with reflection, introspection and pride, extreme pride.

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Brewer: 3-D is future of TV sports

Jerry Brewer, The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, July 19, 2010 - 5:34pm

Consider Chris Long an evangelist for the future of sports on television.

As the senior vice president for entertainment at DirecTV, he has preached 3D broadcasts as a game-changer for years. And then he has ducked because pessimistic reactions often get hurled high and tight. But he always manages to rise and maintain the same bold proclamation.

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(The Associated Press) Former Indianapolis Colts head football coach Tony Dungy (left) hands a book he wrote to a P.E. teacher.

Warren Moon writes about the challenges of being a 40-year-old quarterback, like Brett Favre

Jerry Brewer The Seattle Times

Last updated Sunday, August 23, 2009 - 9:39pm

SEATTLE -- Warren Moon has been Brett Favre before, sans the wishy-washy wackiness. He's been a prodigious quarterback tilting toward 40 who left the NFL team that nourished his legend and wound up in Minnesota.
Their stories aren't a perfect match, of course. Moon went directly from the old Houston Oilers to Minny. After Green Bay, Favre had a stopover with the New York Jets, and he's also on his second un-retirement. And Moon was two years younger when he joined the Vikings in 1994 for a three-season stint. But if you're looking for a Hall of Fame quarterback who can give the best insight on Favre's situation, it's Moon.
So we chatted last week about Favre, the openly gray gunslinger who talks like a grandpa but still plays and occasionally acts like a rebel. Moon also has a new book out, "Never Give Up On Your Dreams," which is an honest, sometimes gut-wrenching, account of his journey from childhood to football immortality.

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