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CHS Pics | ‘ROUND AND ROUND THEY GO’ — Tilted Thunder Roller Derby battles on 15th Ave E

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There was a taped-out oval on the floor of the Quality Flea Center on 15th Ave E this weekend and it didn’t get there by accident.

Taylor Sloan, who runs the bar at The Hopvine across the street, spent part of her week free-handing a flat track onto the flea market’s concrete floor, no measuring tape required.

“I’ve taped out a million tracks at this point,” Sloan said. “I use upholstery foam and gaffer tape for the pole covers, because it’s supposed to be like a fun, DIY, punk rock sort of thing.”

Sloan has been skating with Tilted Thunder Roller Derby for 17 years. Normally, that means suiting up on the league’s regular turf: a 6,000-square-foot wooden track the team builds from scratch at the fairgrounds in Monroe, home to a growing in popularity event –polished, bleacher-seated, and fiercely competitive. But this weekend at the Quality Flea Center was something else entirely with a stripped-down expo bout, played bank track rules on the flat surface with skaters squaring off against each other for the fun of it. Continue reading →

Garfield High School: Coach Roy to return after cleared in recruiting violation investigation

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Coach Roy, middle (Image: @garfieldmbb)

Garfield High says former coach and NBA star Brandon Roy has been cleared in a recruiting violation investigation and will return to lead the school’s boys basketball team.

“Coach Roy is deeply connected to Garfield as a former student, parent, coach, and member of this community. He understands the pride, history, and responsibility that comes with leading this program,” the announcement from Principal Tarance Hart reads. “Coach Roy and I share a clear belief that Garfield basketball must be about more than winning. It must be about academics, accountability, discipline, pride, and helping young people grow as students, athletes, and leaders.” Continue reading →

World Cup: Office of Emergency Management provides update on Seattle’s ‘Event Operations Plan’

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After city officials found Seattle was spending less on its Office of Emergency Management than peer cities like Denver and Portland, a 44% boost to the department’s budget should help make the city safer as it hosts six matches of the FIFA Men’s World Cup this summer.

The Seattle City Council’s public safety committee heard an update on OEM preparations Tuesday morning. Continue reading →

‘THE NIGHT THE FENCES FELL’ — Seattle Parks says the Cal Anderson skate park does not need saving

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Thanks to a CHS reader for the picture

Cal Anderson’s mix of play areas includes the skate park, the remaining tennis court that is also used for dodgeball, and the busy basketball court (Source: Google Maps)

Across the diverse communities that arise to defend it, what Seattle Parks has to say about Cal Anderson Park seems to barely matter.

Honor the name of civil rights hero Calvin Anderson!

The movement to “Save Cal Anderson skate park” has begun!

The thing is, the popular skateboard area probably doesn’t need saving.

A parks department spokesperson tells CHS there has been some “confusion out in the community about Cal Anderson Park.”

Last week, “standard maintenance and repair work” included a parks and rec crew removing the fence around the one-time tennis court that was officially transitioned to alternatives uses like skateboarding, dodgeball, and bike polo more than a decade ago.

Four weeks ago, CHS reported on the Seattle Parks process to overhaul its Racquet Sport Strategy that includes the possible conversion of several tennis courts across the city to full-time pickleball use. One of those courts would be in Cal Anderson.

“Cal Anderson’s special skate and dodgeball uses would remain intact, the parks department says,” CHS reported at the time. Continue reading →

$284: Prices at Garage Capitol Hill bowling alley at center of antitrust lawsuit against national chain that acquired it

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(Image: The Garage)

The high price of bowling on Capitol Hill is at the center of a new federal lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court.

If you bowled at the Garage bowling lanes on Capitol Hill, you might have a case, too.

The possible class action lawsuit seeks to prove national chain Lucky Strike Entertainment has violated antitrust and consumer protection laws by scooping up independent bowling lanes like the Garage and twisting the profit margin wider than a 7-10 split.

One key piece of evidence? A $284.36 bill for a two-hour lane reservation for three people at Broadway’s Garage Billiards & Bowl including mandatory food and beverage credits. Continue reading →

With hopes of completion this fall, $11M Super Block adds plan for new Garfield softball field

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Work underway around the old softball field setup (Image: Seattle Parks)

It has been a rough year for athletics at Garfield High School but the now $11 million Garfield Super Block construction project currently underway around the 23rd Ave campus is getting a sporting addition that will create a bright new home for one of the Bulldogs’ teams and provide an improved space to play for the area’s youth softballers.

Permits filed in recent weeks will set construction in motion for a $1.5 million overhaul of the team’s softball field set to join the swirl of Super Block development currently underway on the Garfield block. Continue reading →

City Council resolution declares Seattle ‘a basketball city’

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Whereas Seattle never got over the loss of the Sonics, Tuesday its city council approved a resolution declaring the 13th largest media market in the country “ready for an NBA team” and “affirming Seattle is a basketball city.”

“The City of Seattle is committed to ensuring that the return of the Seattle SuperSonics aligns with broader community priorities, including equitable access to play, community development opportunity, workforce development, youth engagement, and impacts in underserved communities,” the resolution reads.

The off-court move comes as NBA’s board of governors has authorized expansion talks with ownership groups in Las Vegas and Seattle. Continue reading →

Capitol Hill ‘sports bar for everybody’ Pitch the Baby will expand on 19th Ave E

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“I must tell you, we’re going to have to bring the women’s team, you do know that.” Trump joked in the video call with the U.S. men’s medal-winning team that set off the current controversy. “I do believe I probably would be impeached.” (Image: Pitch the Baby)

The U.S. women’s gold medal–winning hockey team declined an invitation from President Donald Trump to attend his State of the Union address Tuesday night. The players probably won’t be tuning in to the broadcast, either.

The screens at Capitol Hill sports-bar-for-everybody Pitch the Baby also seem unlikely to feature the speech. There are more important things like a recorded Seattle Mariners spring training game to show.

But soon, Pitch the Baby will have a few more screens for Storm tip-offs, Reign kick-offs, Torrent faceoffs, and LPGA tee-offs.

The 19th Ave E sports bar says it is now at work stretching into the full space of the one-time Kingfish Cafe with a bit of construction underway for the expansion. The change means the end of Pitch the Baby’s sibling sandwich shop Condesa next door: Continue reading →

CHS Pics | Seahawks Super Bowl LX victory celebrations on Capitol Hill

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A lot has changed in Seattle since 2014. 150,000 more people live here. Median rent was less than $1,400. And Donald Trump hadn’t even announced his run for president.

Twelve years later, the city still knows how to back a champion as sportsball fans spilled into the streets Sunday night and filled intersections from Pioneer Square to Pike/Pine with revelry. Continue reading →

Global cycling brand Rapha is closing its Capitol Hill ‘clubhouse’

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London-based global cycling sportswear brand Rapha is closing its Seattle “clubhouse,” a mixed retail and cafe concept it introduced nearly ten years ago on this E Pine block of Capitol Hill after its redevelopment

The company said the Seattle shutdown will be joined by clubhouse closures in Boulder, Chicago, Miami, and Manchester, United Kingdom  “before the end of March 2026.”

The closures come as Rapha is suffering global revenue loss of a reported $23 million annually. It will continue to operate 20 or so clubhouses in cities including New York, Los Angeles, and Portland as well as opening new sites including Shanghai.

The company says the closures will begin as early as this month. Continue reading →