A GRIP ON SPORTS • This is an area filled with pride due to its four seasons. Four? Heck, there are many more. There’s duck season (also known as rabbit season if you’re Daffy). There’s a lengthy and deep pothole season. And yesterday marked the official start of my bete noire, mud season. Luckily, it’s still basketball season as well. Read on.

The Seattle Mariners believe that a healthy Yovani Gallardo, one who resembles his 2015 form at Texas, can provide a major boost to their rotation.

A GRIP ON SPORTS • Being a walk-on in Division I isn’t easy. Even if you play. And that’s not a given for those who pay their way in college athletics these days. Read on.

Felix Hernandez arrived for Seattle Mariners spring training on Tuesday already ahead in his offseason preparation from previous years.

Bookmaker Bovada in Las Vegas set the line Nov. 3 for the Mariners to win the 2017 World Series at 25-1. Updated odds this week show Seattle slipped to 33-1, which is a four-way tie for 13th with Baltimore, Kansas City and Detroit. As you may recall, only 10 team make the postseason.

A GRIP ON SPORTS • Before we get into the day’s news, let’s get this out of the way: I’m sorry. I didn’t get you anything special for Valentine’s Day. No cake. No candy. No flowers. It’s not as if I forgot – how can you these days? – but it’s just I couldn’t find anything that truly was good enough for someone as special as you. Read on.

Free-agent first baseman Adam Lind and the Washington Nationals have agreed to a $1.5 million, one-year contract, pending a physical, accordin to a person familiar with the deal.

A GRIP ON SPORTS • There was not a drop of the NFL available yesterday. No football of any kind on television all weekend. Did you suffer from withdrawal symptoms? Here’s the surest sign you were: You bet the under on the Grammys’ telecast – and lost. Read on.

A GRIP ON SPORTS • Gonzaga basketball has been a big story in the Spokane area since 1999. The Spokane area. But I don’t recall as many national resources devoted to one non-NCAA game as there was last night. It was a festival. A carnival. A circus. Was it worth it? Read on.

A GRIP ON SPORTS • One of the nice things about college basketball is big games can happen at any time. There aren’t rivalry weekends or an ordained matchup late in the season. A great game may occur any day of the week and at anytime. That being said, tonight’s Gonzaga game at Saint Mary’s has been circled in red since the schedules were released. And it happens to be on a Saturday night, late in the season. Read on.

Another flurry of offseason moves have left the Mariners a significantly remodeled club headed to Arizona, but more in the manner of what Jerry Dipoto envisioned when he took over as Seattle’s general manager in September 2015.