<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d003f55d-694c-4022-a06a-e5a92d125327/60F56A05-C069-4C6B-B493-DD1CB982A4E7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/sports/21washington.html" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/sports/21washington.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/sports/21washington.html"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0"> At a Time of Loss, Seattle Fans Hold On to Hope </NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/sports/21washington.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/0C3E56E7-3F8A-4444-B16B-B8AC26568ECB" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/sports/21washington.html"><P class="caption"> Lorin "Big Lo" Sandretzky, watching the Seahawks lose to the Cardinals, 26-20, on Sunday. "I will stay positive," he said. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/sports/21washington.html"><P>SEATTLE — Long before Sir Mix-A-Lot made six hip-hop albums and won a Grammy for the international hit “Baby Got Back,” he was Anthony Ray, just another Seattle sports fan at the <A title="Recent news and scores about the Seattle SuperSonics." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/sports/probasketball/nationalbasketballassociation/seattlesupersonics/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Sonics</A>’ 1979 <A title="More articles about the National Basketball Association." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/national_basketball_association/index.html?inline=nyt-org">N.B.A.</A> championship parade.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/sports/21washington.html"><P>While hanging from a lamppost, he watched Coach <A title="More articles about Lenny Wilkens." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/lenny_wilkens/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Lenny Wilkens</A> ride by in a convertible. This, he thought to himself, is as good as it gets.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/sports/21washington.html"><P>As bad as it gets is happening right now. Seattle sports are so bad, in fact, that if Sir Mix-A-Lot were to write a song about the scene, he said he would name it Purgatory. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/sports/21washington.html"><P>“Sports in this city are just terrible,” he said. “Has another city ever done this bad?”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/sports/21washington.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/97159189-0450-454C-9C49-47274A2C2F87" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/sports/21washington.html"><P>“This is the worst sports scene in the history of sports scenes,” said Brian Robinson, a real-estate investor who co-founded the group Save our Sonics. “There’s no way to sugarcoat it.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/60F56A05-C069-4C6B-B493-DD1CB982A4E7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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