Seattle, WA
Seattle Seahawks to cut Diggs, Adams and Dissly, per reports
The Seattle Seahawks are making three massive moves to kick off the offseason as NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reports the Hawks are releasing Pro Bowl safeties Jamal Adams and Quandre Diggs as well as tight end Will Dissly.
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Diggs joined the Seahawks via trade partway through the 2019 season and has been a key defender on the back end of Seattle’s defense. In five years, Diggs has made three Pro Bowls while recording 18 interceptions. He was also a team captain for each of the past two seasons.
As for Adams, he came to Seattle in one of the biggest trades in franchise history.
A perennial All-Pro with the New York Jets, the Seahawks traded two first-round picks and a third-round pick for Adams ahead of 2020. After he set an NFL record for sacks in a single season by a defensive back with 9.5 in his firsts year with Seattle, Adams earned a five-year contract extension that made him the highest-paid safety in football at the time. Adams has missed considerable time due to injury since then, however, including all but one game in 2022. He has no sacks and just two takeaways since 2021.
By cutting those two veteran safeties, the Seahawks save $27.5 million in cash, per Pelissero.
The remaining safety options for the Seahawks are led by Julian Love, who played all 17 games in his first year in Seattle in 2023 and was a Pro Bowler. Jerrick Reed II, a sixth-round pick last April, played safety in college and is also on the roster, as is 2021 fourth-rounder Coby Bryant, who played nickel as a rookie in 2022 and safety last offseason and in training camp.
Dissly, a UW alum, has been with the Seahawks since he was drafted in the fourth round in 2018. He signed a three-year deal in free agency after the 2021 season to stay in Seattle and has 13 career touchdown receptions.
Per Pelissero, the Seahawks save $7 million against the cap by releasing Dissly. With Dissly cut, the Seahawks’ top three tight ends from the last two seasons – Dissly, Noah Fant and Colby Parkinson – are all unrestricted free agents.
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Seattle, WA
Melinda French Gates, ex-wife of Bill Gates, to join Seattle Kraken as minority investor
SEATTLE (AP) — Melinda French Gates, a billionaire philanthropist and businesswoman, will join the Seattle Kraken as a minority investor, pending NHL approval.
French Gates, 61, is the ex-wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. She and her $30 billion net worth, according to Forbes, join an ownership group headlined by majority owner and managing partner Samantha Holloway, as well as investors David Wright, Andy Jassy and longtime Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
“As a longtime Seattle resident, it means a lot to me to have the chance to make this investment in our city and its future,” French Gates said in a statement. “I’m a big believer in the power of sports, and after many years of cheering on Seattle from the sidelines, I’m excited to have an even deeper connection to the Seattle sports community.”
French Gates has never previously had an ownership stake in a major professional sports franchise. She will do so at a time when the Kraken ownership group is positioning itself to own an NBA franchise should the NBA return to the Emerald City for the first time since the SuperSonics were relocated to Oklahoma City nearly 20 years ago.
In March, the Kraken ownership group announced the creation of One Roof Sports and Entertainment, which serves as the umbrella brand of the organization to “oversee a growing portfolio of properties and fuel new opportunities.” At the time, Holloway announced that One Roof would pursue an NBA team in Seattle, should the league move forward with expansion.
Holloway also announced in March that the group had entered an agreement to purchase additional equity in Climate Pledge Arena from Oak View Group, and would make the organization the majority owner of the building. OVG has retained a minority stake.
French Gates, who grew up in Dallas and received a bachelor’s degree in computer science and economics, as well as an MBA from Duke, currently heads Pivotal, a group of organizations she founded to accelerate the pace of social progress for women and young people in the United States and around the world.
French Gates previously founded and co-chaired the Gates Foundation, the world’s largest philanthropy.
“I am excited to welcome Melinda to our ownership group,” Holloway said in a statement. “Melinda is an impressive business leader, philanthropist and importantly, a Seattle sports fan. We share many of the same values, including a deep commitment to Seattle and a belief in building organizations that create lasting impact.”
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SEATTLE — Seattle police arrested a 40-year-old man after a stabbing in the University District on Monday morning that left another man wounded.
Officers were sent to the 5000 block of Brooklyn Avenue North just before 8 a.m. for a reported stabbing. Police arrived and found a 21-year-old man with stab wounds.
Officers provided aid until the Seattle Fire Department arrived and took over. The victim’s injuries were stated to be non-life-threatening
Police searched the area and located a suspect near Northeast 47th Street and University Way Northeast. The 40-year-old man was arrested and booked into the King County Jail.
(WSB file photo. No outdoor cap tosses this year!)
Tomorrow (Monday, June 1) brings not only a new month but also the first graduation ceremony of the season for West Seattle’s three biggest high schools. And all are graduating at new venues this year. Summit Atlas, which after nine years remains West Seattle’s only charter school, will graduate 55 seniors in a ceremony at Highline Performing Arts Center in Burien at 6 pm Monday. West Seattle’s two major public high schools, Chief Sealth International HS and West Seattle HS, both have graduation ceremonies on Wednesday, June 17, at McCaw Hall (hosting graduations while Memorial Stadium is being rebuilt) – CSIHS at 5 pm, WSHS at 8 pm. The Seattle Public Schools webpage for graduation info also lists where and when ceremonies are planned for its alternative programs, some of which hold classes in West Seattle.
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