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‘He’s why we have football here’: Seattle Seahawks salute Paul Allen, add late owner to ‘Ring of Honor’

A tribute video plays on the big screen at CenturyLink Field as the Seahawks franchise honored Paul Allen and inducted him into the team’s Ring of Honor on Thursday. (GeekWire Photos / Kevin Lisota) Patti Hammond — better known around these parts as “Mama Blue” — knows how much Paul Allen meant to the Seattle […]

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Paul Allen to become 12th member of Seattle Seahawks’ ‘Ring of Honor’ in tribute to late owner

Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen is honored by the team at CenturyLink Field in December 2017, 20 years after he kept the NFL franchise from leaving. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Paul Allen has been credited with keeping the Seattle Seahawks from leaving the city, and now the late owner and Microsoft co-founder will be […]

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Seattle-based Atavus, leaders in football tackling analytics, acquired by sports tech fund

(Atavus Image) Atavus, the Seattle startup using analytics to help football players develop better tackling skills, has been acquired by Phoenix Sports Partners, a sports technology and data investment fund. The deal was finalized earlier this month according to a news release this week. Atavus started as a rugby skills platform in 2011 and transitioned […]

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Q&A: Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer get ready for second season calling Amazon’s NFL games

Andrea Kremer and Hannah Storm enter their second season calling games for Amazon’s Thursday Night Football streams. They became the first all-female duo to call an entire NFL game last year. (Amazon Photo) There was limited time to interview Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer last week, so I made sure to ask the veteran sports […]

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Photos: GeekWire community celebrates summer and soccer with big rooftop Sounders Day party

The Seattle community came together on the rooftop of Qualtrics before heading to the Sounders FC match on Thursday evening. (GeekWire Photos / Kurt Schlosser and Taylor Soper) Summer wasn’t quite done putting on a show in Seattle on Wednesday evening, turning the rooftop deck at Qualtrics in Pioneer Square into the perfect place to […]

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Russell Wilson’s startup Tally powers new real-time predictions game for L.A. Rams, Seahawks’ big rival

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, right, with Jason LeeKeenan, CEO of Tally, in Seattle in 2018. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) When the Seattle Seahawks take on the Los Angeles Rams on Oct. 3 this season, fans might want to predict how many touchdowns quarterback Russell Wilson will throw against his division rival on that […]

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