Peter Bagge on the Sonics

My good friend (and fellow Ballardite) Peter Bagge has a great new cartoon about Sports Stadium Fever over at Reason. Check it out, then go buy some of his books.

Nuss gets props from Times, call from KIRO

Peter J. Nussbaum, the hardest working man in blog-ness, is featured in not one, but TWO major Seattle media markets today. First, in this morning's Seattle Times, and later (possibly) on KIRO (he was asked to be on tonight, but we're having a hard time tracking him down in the wilds of Canada).

Anyway, imaginary high-fives all around!

UPDATE: Pete also got name-dropped on AOL Sports today!

Lewis Files for FA

Shocking, I know. But just to make it official, Rashard Lewis filed for free agency on Friday (first report goes to KRIV in Houston, Texas). The Times and PI also checked in with stories as well (quick note to Percy Allen at the Times: the 6.6 rebounds per game is Rashard's 3rd-best effort of his career, not his career-high; it's not a big thing, but it does defuse the "contract-year" hype we're going to be hearing in the next couple of months). Not much interesting news, but according to the espn.com story, Lewis' agent, Tony Dutt, commented:

"We've been in contact [with Lenny Wilkens]. We'll probably stay in contact on and off until July 1."

The bidding is expected to reach $15 million per season.