Seattle Storm win WNBA championship. Glad somebody in town can chant, "We're #1"

Congratulations to the Seattle Storm, who captured the Women's National Basketball Association (WBNA) title by defeating the Atlanta Dream 87-84 last night in Georgia. The Storm went 7-0 during this year's playoffs.

Dog Denizens of Genesee Park (DDGP) Special Correspondence Damager (an alias) will be on hand for the Storm's victory parade at 7 pm at Seattle Center. The parade route begins at the base of the Space Needle and concludes at Key Arena, which will host championship celebration:

http://www.wnba.com/storm/playoffs2010/hype.html

Like many Storm loyalists, season ticket holder Damager caught the game last night on ESPN2. And like many Ranier Valley dogs, Damager's canine Clarence the Retriever AK9 slept during the WNBA contest.

The Jet City hasn't enjoyed a world title since 2004... when the Storm won the WNBA championship. Seattle Mariner fans have long since abandoned the dream of a World Series trophy in the future. Maybe it's our destiny to be the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB).

Enjoy yourselves tonight, Storm fans. Lest anybody get crazy ideas of car tipping or looting, remember the added presence of Seattle Police officers in Belltown.

Is a Storm championship dollars to doughnuts?

Admittedly, few things in life are guaranteed: death, taxes and another Seattle Mariners 100-loss season. However, Seattle Storm fans anticipate their home team capturing the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) championship this evening in Atlanta. The Storm is ahead 2-0 in the series and looking for a sweep in the Peach State.

Somebody in this town needs to win a title.

Storm fan Damager (an alias) has ordered his season tickets for the 2011 season. Damager attended the Storm game Tuesday night reports that several referee calls against Seattle were "questionably bad. When the alleged foul was replayed on StormVision (the Jumbotron screen hanging above the court), the true badness of these calls was replayed multiple times life-size for the crowd of 15,000-plus to jeer at." An angry crowd switched from choruses of "DE-FENSE!" to "NEW-REFS!"

A fan created "the best fan-made sign I've ever seen" that read 'Even Chuck Norris is afraid of Lauren Jackson.' The fan won a box of doughnuts."

According to Damager, if presented with a box of doughnuts, his pooch Clarence the Retriever AK9 (another alias) would "eat the frosting off the top of all of them and then get to work on whatever's left until: 1) It gets too boring, 2) He runs out of water, or 3) He gets tired to chew any longer." Clarence once ate around the crust of a freshly baked loaf of challah -- a braided Jewish egg bread that requires three different rising periods -- and left only the chewy middle as evidence of his feat.

If you want to satisfy your canine's craving for doughnuts, local Top Pot has created a commemorative confection in honor of the WNBA team... which is all good unless the doughnuts are frosted with chocolate. In which case, it's an old-fashioned for Fido. Boring, yes... but that's a given in life and preferable to caffeine poisoning.

Go, Storm.

ESPN2 airs Game 3 of the NBA Championship at 5 pm.

Every time you hear a bell an Angel gets his wings (cover your dog's ears)

Seeking a "second opinion," the Dog Denizens of Genesee Park (DDGP) solicited the comments of another Rainier Valley canine: Clarence the Retriever, AK9, of Columbia City. While Clarence (an alias) does not reside in the vicinity of the hydroplane races, the golden retriever mix lives under the flight path of the United States Navy Blue Angels -- as do many dogs in Southeast Seattle.

Clarence The Retriever, AK9, issued this statement about Seafair: "The planes are cool. The pilots are really talented. Man, they're loud... Hey, look, a CAT!!!!!!!"

According to Damager (another alias), Clarence's spokesman, the retriever mix's plans for Seafair "include lying in the basement with his paws over his ears, and having a cool drink. Maybe chewing on a cat if he can find one nearby. He will bark at the planes every time they fly over the house, near the house, in the neighborhood, and even occasionally after they've left the state of Washington and are no longer in hearing range."

When asked if Clarence will spend Seafair listening to the dulcet tones of Kenny G tunes, Damager responded: "No one is so inhumane as to subject a dog to that."