The Seattle Seahawks play in their fourth Super Bowl on Sunday against the New England Patriots, after beating the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams in the playoffs.

The Patriots will seek their NFL-record seventh Super Bowl victory when they face the Seahawks on Feb. 8 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.

A cohort from Oregon and Washington will compete in events including freestyle skiing, speed skating and curling in Italy this February.

Portland’s Samuel Mindra delivered a crowd-pleasing short program on Thursday night. This season, Mindra has been commuting three hours each way to Snoqualmie, Wash., for training.

The Seattle Torrent professional women’s hockey team begins play on Friday. The team is one of two expansion franchises in the now-eight-team Professional Women’s Hockey League.

The name honors the Northwest’s geography and frequent rainfall. "Torrent" also hints at how the women’s hockey team will approach play on the ice.

Twelve teams will enter October, but only one team will leave (with a ring). You can root for the three franchises that have never won a title before … or you can pull for the Yankees or Dodgers.

A fan caught Cal Raleigh's history-making 60th home run ball. He promptly turned the valuable memento over to 12-year-old Marcus Ruelos.

Over 60 years after Leo Lassen called his last baseball game in Seattle, fans still vividly remember his home run call, and his detailed re-creation of road games from inside a studio.

Seattle sportswriter Bud Withers thinks Washington's biggest college football tradition, the Apple Cup, should continue, even though the two participants no longer play in the same conference.