Husky football is Seattle's fourth major-league franchise.
I've often thought the justification for such excess, the operation of a para-professional team on a university campus, is money for participation in sports by other students. The announcement this week by Athletic Director Barbara Hedges that the university is dropping swimming as an intercollegiate sport is deplorable on a number of counts. She justified her decision to end both men's and women's competitive swimming because neither program is competitive nationally, and can't be unless a new pool is constructed. In fact, Hedges acted as if she was doing the swimmers a favor, ending their frustrations of trying to compete against Stanford and USC when they had no chance. With our current facilities, that isn't possible.