Note: Taking advantage of the sun and a slightly sleepier sports-news portion of the calendar, I am taking a break until Tuesday. But I will respond to the literary hooligans, miscreants and ne'er-do-wells in the comments section.

For an assistant coach getting his first NFL coordinator's job, Shane Waldron abruptly has become nearly mythic, before he's even had a chance to butcher his first third-down call.

Waldron's gauzy appearance as a fixer/healer/protector for the Seahawks has somehow morphed him into some sort of superhero fit  the next episode in the Star Wars cinematic saga.

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Seahawks FS Quandre Diggs wasn't particularly happy to be asked whether he had his COVID-19 vaccination.

"That's my business," he said this week after mini-camp practice at team headquarters. "I don't go around asking people do they get the vaccine or do they not get the vaccine. That's not for the world to know.

"The world knows all my contracts, and stuff like that. So hopefully, I keep some secret about my life. I mean, that's that."

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Besides wet Junes, parched Augusts, Seafair, and every major road and freeway under repair, one of the great traditions of summer in Seattle is a major Seahawks player holding out of practice, seeking more dollars.

Hall of Famer Walter Jones was so consistently excellent at malingering, he was nearly nicknamed for an unlimited hydroplane: Slo-Mo-Shun.

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The most impactful matter in college sports has nothing to do with expanding the College Football Playoffs from four to 12 teams. The most impactful matter is keeping the industry from imploding from the weight of its historic greed and intransigence.

Starting July 1.

That's when schools in five states, without violating rules this time, can help direct a waterfall of outside money upon their athletes, most likely to football and men's basketball players, for use of their names, images and likenesses (NIL).

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Backing away so fast from the trade talk that he generated last winter, Russell Wilson left virtual skid marks.

But after a half-hour video conference Thursday otherwise filled with the schmaltzy platitudes we have come to expect -- conveying affection for all things Seahawks and Seattle -- Wilson, in his first interview since The Disturbance, finally let slip something that genuinely explained his dour mood.

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Wow. Who knew that Jarred Kelenic would be washed up after just 23 games in the major leagues?

We jest, of course. Still, the reaction of some Mariners fans to Kelenic’s failure to immediately light up the baseball world at 21 seems a bit overboard.

Granted, Kelenic’s .096 batting average was pitiful. Hitless in his final 39 at bats, he returned to AAA Tacoma this week in desperate need of a boost in his stats and confidence.

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Listening to DK Metcalf Tuesday, I heard a faint echo of Muhammad Ali.

"I am the greatest," the champ once said. "I said that even before I knew I was."

After impressing the sports world with his aspiration to qualify for the U.S. Olympic track trials as a 100-meter sprinter, and backing it with a 10.36-second time at a meet in California, the Seahawks' just-turned-23 golden child answered a question about his goal to do many things well.

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The Mariners' only off day in a stretch of 31 games is Monday. It happens to be not at home but on the road in Detroit, not high on the list of resort destinations. But the development is fairly representative of the baseball experience of the past three months, which has had all the rhythm of hiking boots in a clothes dryer.

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The long shot became a no shot for the Seahawks when the Tennessee Titans sent the Atlanta Falcons a second-round draft pick in 2022 and a fourth-rounder in 2023 for star WR Julio Jones, 32, and a 2023 sixth-round pick, the clubs announced Sunday.

Whether Seattle made a firm offer isn't known, but reports suggested the Seahawks inquired.

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In trying to work up a justification for attempting the hire of a very good but very expensive and 32-year-old player for the Seahawks' third receiver spot -- more than a hood ornament, but closer to heated leather seats -- I recalled a response by Pete Carroll last week that seemed to escape attention.

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