Washington draws, 1-1, with British Columbia at Lower Woodland, completing a seven-game season (3-2-2) exclusively versus collegiate opposition from Canada (UBC, Victoria and Royal Roads) and Oregon (Portland State).

Seattle's KING 5 preempts network programming to air a documentary featuring three-time women's national champion FC Lowenbrau-Zurich. The film, narrated by Jean Enersen and entitled "Going for Four," profiles coach Mike Ryan and 14 players as they prepare to win a fourth national title in 1983.

Seattle Hungarians are awarded a forfeit over San Francisco Vikings after the Californians refuse to travel north for the Jan. 10 second round National Challenge Cup match.

PDL play returns to Everett with the birth of the North Sound SeaWolves, who will take up residency at Everett Memorial Stadium. Not since the Everett BigFoot (1995-96) has Snohomish County had a PDL club. Alex Silva, formerly owner and coach of the Yakima Reds, will operate the franchise.

King County Domed Stadium, known more commonly as the Kingdome, turns to rubble during a televised implosion. Scene of many a sports memory over 24 years, the Kingdome is gone in a virtual flash and bang. In 16.8 seconds some 4,500 pounds of dynamite brings down the 25,000-ton concrete roof. Most of the rubble from the Kingdome will be used in projects around the country, but 35 percent will stay as base for the new soccer/football stadium and its parking lots.

A Pacific Northwest record crowd is treated to a spectacle on a warm summer night at Seahawks Stadium, with star-studded Manchester United winning a friendly with Celtic, 4-0, on a freshly-laid carpet of grass. United, coming off their eighth Premier League title in 11 years, get goals from Ruud van Nistlerooy, Ryan Giggs and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to go up 3-nil by halftime before 66,722. Celtic, second to Rangers on goal-difference, miss a penalty kick that would have tied the score in the 18th minute. Intermittently during the second half, red-clad fans generate choruses of 'Glory, Glory, Man United,' and after the final whistle the team takes a lap of honor. United are without David Beckham, sold to Real Madrid in June. New Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo, 18, joins the team three weeks later.