Sporting Events
Seattle has been host to number of important sporting events, the NFL Pro Bowl in 1977, the MLB All-Star Game in 1979 and 2001, the 1974 NBA All-Star Game and 1987 NBA All-Star Game, The Goodwill Games in 1990 and the NCAA Final Four in 1984, 1989 and 1995.
In 1998, the Seattle City council failed to pass a resolution that would have allowed Seattle to be considered for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
The Seattle Marathon has taken place annually since 1970.
In football (soccer), the "All Nations Cup" is held every year.
Read more about this topic: Sports In Seattle
Famous quotes containing the words sporting and/or events:
“I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)