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The Sounders tied 2-2 at Real Salt Lake on Saturday. A good result, but they’ll feel like they should’ve came away with three points.

Real Salt lake looks dangerous throughout the game, creating several chances and controlling the ball well. Fortunately, Keller was there to make several solid saves. Credit the Sounders defenders as well.

It was Zakuani, however, that opened the scoring the 13th minute, which was set up well by Fredy Montero. In the second half, RSL equalized in the 52nd minute off a diving header by Will Johnson. Poor defending the culprit. Later, Tyrone Marshall put the Sounders up 2-1 on a header off a free kick from Llungberg. All looked good for three points, when in the 90th minute +4 RSL’s Alvoro Saborio placed a header off a corner kick into the back of the net. Final score: 2-2.

Here are some random thoughts I had about players throughout the game:

Pat Noonan: Not gelling well with the team yet. Made a few hospital passes, had several bad touches and clumsy challenges.

Freddie Llungberg: Did not play well in the first half. Similar to Noonan, he had trouble controlling the ball.

Beckerman: RSL Captain. Take a shower and cut those dreadlocks. Have some dignity.

Zakuani: Probably our best offensive weapon along with Montero. He has pace and continues to create excellent plays. Once again, he was subbed out for Roger “Prefontaine” Levesque. I do not like this, but I have to assume the coaches know more than I.

Former Sounder Sebastien Le Toux had a hat trick against DC United in a 3-2 win for the Union.

Also note that the Kitsap Pumas defeated the Portland Timbers in a scrimmage last week, as featured in this Kitsap Sun slide show.

The Mariners are off to an atrocious 2-5 start to the 2010 season. Both wins came off King Felix’s starts (Cliff Lee is out until early May). The problem: Offense. We’ve had some excellent/decent efforts by our starting pitchers, only to have no run support to back it up.

Quite honestly, it hurts to watch. Especially after all of the off season moves the M’s made to be a competitive ball club.

The good news is, those were all road games and our home opener is today. We’ll see if we can muster a solid home stand at the Safe…

Speculation continues as to which hole in the ship the Seahawks are going to plug in the upcoming draft. Personally, I feel the Hawks are in full rebuild mode with the loss of Walter Jones and the performances over the past three years. They have major deficiencies on the O line, D line, safety and defensive ends.

Here’s a look at some potential draft prospects via the pundits:

RotoWorld says we want LT Trent Williams

Seahawks Draft Blog says we want Safety Eric Berry of Tennessee

The San Francisco Chronicle says we want USC Safety Taylor Mays

The BMore Sun says we want Derrick Morgan, DE from Georgia Tech

In all honesty, nobody really knows what the Hawks are going to do. There are so many holes to fill, they could go in any direction. If it were me, I’d use our two first round picks to get an O and D lineman. All for now.

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Both the Dawgs and the Sounders (probably the best thing to root for in Seattle at this time) have huge games tomorrow. The games will overlap, so hopefully you have two TVs right next to each other or your local pub will put on both. Honestly, I ran out of time when posting this, because I have to leave early Thursday to get to the Sounders game and need some shut eye. Here is a quick profile of the games:

Huskies vs West Virginia (Sweet 16): Tip off at 4:30pm on CBS

West Virginia is good. Even without their starting point guard, Truck Bryant, they are going to be a handful. They’re a big, fast and physical team who can shoot the three. I’m cautiously optimistic because of how well the Dawgs have been playing, but we’ll need everything we have to pull this one out.

Key point: the three ball. The Huskies are shooting 55% from three point range in the tournament. In the regular season, it was 35%. We need to keep this up.

Sounders vs. Philadelphia Union (Season Opener): Kick off at 6:30pm on ESPN2

Former Sounder Sebastien Le Toux makes his return to Seattle (He was drafted/stolen by Philly in the expansion) and is scheduled to start. I don’t know much about their team, but I know Seattle needs to get over their goal drought (Tying the White Caps 0-0 and losing to P*rtland 1-0) in order to pull out a victory.

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