The two popular hosts who had separated shows and then also teamed up for Groz with Gas on Sports Radio 95, helped keep Seattle's professional sports team on the front burner through good times and bad.
White also played for John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band and also George Harrison's iconic "All Things Must Pass" album.
White had lived in this area for many years and was active in the community. He was in the news last month when his drum kits, which he played on for the Lennon and Harrison albums, were reported to have been stolen from a Newcastle storage unit.
Now, I have to wonder how many people who are contestants have even heard of the town, however, you would only really need a W, an L and an A to really get the answer.
I got to watch such golfing greats as Gary Player and Hale Irwin. It was really a lot of fun and I was always thankful for his generosity.
I remember watching him on TV when he played college ball for St Bonaventure, As I remember, it was a night game and on one of those independent networks that carried college basketball back then. Either HSN or TVS. I thought St Bonaventure was a cool name for a college and Bob Lanier was the dominant player.
His NBA career took him to the Detroit Pistons and later to the Milwaukee Bucks. He was a Hall Of Famer.
Lanier died on May 10th.
I'm sure Tracy will enjoy the new hours and still be able use her superb communications skills to bolster some great organizations.
Taylor also confirms that she is working on some other projects, which will probably be revealed in the future.
This past week we saw Paul McCartney again at Seattle's newest venue, Climate Pledge Arena. McCartney has launched his tour in our state. He performed last weekend in Spokane.
Paul comes across on stage as genuine and likable. The picture above, which I found on Twitter, is of his arrival at Climate Pledge. His window is down and he is acknowledging his fans, many who are probably not going to his show. Paul did a delightful mix of songs from the Beatles and Wings, as well as his solo work.
There are some "talking heads" online that talk of his voice giving out. Indeed there are notes that he cannot hit like he used to but hey, the man is nearly 80 years old. I don't believe that he has to tour, he has enough money to last a lifetime and more, but he is still at it. When he performs, he always entertains.
Paul was one of four individuals who came together (no pun intended) to create a cultural shift in the World. It can be argued that he may be the greatest entertainer of all time. He is a singer, bass player, composer, and even occasionally, a comedian.
To watch this man perform live is truly a privilege.
When started watching baseball on TV, he was pretty much in the twilight of his career, but there was always a certain excitement when he was up to bat.
According to my source, Mays is the oldest living player in the Baseball Hall Of Fame.
Happy Birthday, Willie!
The Judds had 14 hits together and had won 5 Grammy Awards before Naomi's premature retirement from hepatitis in 1991. Naomi was also the mother of actress Ashley Judd, who went to high school with my wife in Tennessee.
Naomi and Wynona had announced last month a farewell tour.
Stagecoach, as I understand it, is the Country version of Coachella. Like Coachella, it convenes at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio.
Daryle Lamonica was the quarterback of the Oakland Raiders, my favorite AFL team. At the time, I first became interested in Pro Sports, the AFL was emerging as a major professional league. It's games of the week were featured on NBC, where as the NFL games were on CBS.
The LA Rams were my favorite NFL team. They had a quarterback named Roman Gabriel. That was fitting since they played in the LA Coliseum.
There were no Seattle teams at the time, well, except for the Super Sonics which was a first year NBA expansion team.
I was a Raider fan because Oakland was in California, which to me stood for everything cool and because my cousins, the Goldbergs lived in Oakland.
I learned today that Lamonica died on April 20th of natural causes. He was 80 years old. Known as "The Mad Bomber", he was an alumni of Notre Dame. He also took Oakland to its first Super Bowl, a loss to the Green Bay Packers.
Taylor, originally became known in the area when worked on the morning show with host Mitch Levy on Sports Radio KJR 950. After starting there, she would leave the area, returning in 2006, once again, working with Levy and the KJR crew.
Taylor left KJR for good in 2010, appearing on KING 5 TV. Her departure from the station at the end of 2016, resulted in a post on this blog getting well over 30 thousand hits.
Taylor had been working since 2017 on a split shift between KIRO 7 TV and its former broadcasting partner KIRO 97.3 radio.
Taylor announced earlier this year that she would leave the evening radio gig. Her latest announcement is that will soon be leaving the Seattle airwaves completely.
We will let you know if Taylor announces further career plans.
Sunday was nice and sunny after days of rainy and cold Spring weather.
I was told by someone in the Maple Valley Facebook group that this was a working plane. My understanding is that it was doing LIDAR scans of the Cedar River Basin.
Both started on New York teams that moved to California in the late 50s. Koufax had just retired when I started following baseball, but was a commentator on the NBC game of the week. I learned of Mays through an article in the Scout magazine Boys Life. Since Seattle did not have a team at the time, I adopted the San Francisco Giants as my favorite baseball club.
This picture was posted in the Sandy Koufax fan group on Facebook.
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Wilson, arguably the greatest player and most definitely the greatest quarterback in Seahawk history, was traded last month to the Denver Broncos.
That means that Smith, winner of the Best Actor Award for his role in King Richard, would have been the presenter for Best Actress at the 2023 ceremony. That will now be impossible unless there is an appeal.
Of course, Smith slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscar Ceremony, after the comedian made a joke about wife Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head.
Seattle sports fans like me have been eagerly waiting for two things, the Mariners to end the longest streak of not going to the playoffs of any team in any professional sport and the return of the Seattle Super Sonics.
In the latest of a series of podcasts known as "Iconic Sonics", Gastineau conducts a particularly interesting and moving interview with former Sonic 7-footer James Donaldson. Donaldson, who was the center of the Washington State Cougars when I attended in the mid to late 70s, has been an outspoken mental health advocate.
In this podcast, maybe one of Gastineau's best, Donaldson takes listeners along on his basketball journey. You can hear it by clicking here.
Jackson becomes the first African-American female justice to sit on the court.
She replaces retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
This event took place in the same summer of Woodstock (1969) and yet, while Woodstock became emblematic of the era, this gathering is relatively unknown. The event was filmed, but no one, it seems, wanted to release it to the public at the time. Perhaps it may have been because there seemed, at least from the film, no sign of violence, drug ODs or naked people running around.
We watched the film on Disney Plus, after a strong recommendation by Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr and found it incredible with all the great acts. Many who are still performing today.
The film won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature and a Grammy for Best Music Film.
What does that have to do with us? Well, Seattle and Las Vegas are considered front runners to be awarded with expansion franchises. Since the plan would be to add two teams at once (as most major sports leagues usually do), it shows that plans for Seattle to obtain a team are not too far off.
The Sonics, at the time, the only major professional sports team in Seattle to have won a championship, left town in 2008 after a group lead by local owner Howard Schultz sold the franchise to Oklahoma City based Clay Bennett.
Area basketball fans were teased cruelly when San Francisco based hedge fund manager Chris Hansen tried to buy and move the Sacramento Kings, however, the NBA, which helped facilitate the Sonics move out of Seattle, staged a major effort to keep the Kings from relocating.
