After missing five games recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery, Luke Joeckel appears ready to resume his left guard position that figures to help a little in restoring the ground game when the 6-4 Seahawks play the 1-9 49ers at 1 p.m. Sunday in Santa Clara. But CB Shaquill Griffin will miss the game after a
Author: Art Thiel
Art Thiel
Never having met a metaphor he could not twist beyond recognition, Art has been illuminating, agitating, amusing and annoying Puget Sound sports readers for a long time. Along with Steve Rudman, he co-founded Sports Press Northwest because it didnt seem right that the Google monster should aggregate daily journalism into oblivion without at least a flesh wound from somebody. Thiel and Rudman labored under the Seattle Post-Intelligencer globe until the print edition died an undeserved death in March, 2009. Art continued on at its online successor seattlepi.com while working on SPNWs creation. His radio commentaries can be heard Friday and Saturday mornings and Friday afternoon on KPLU-FM 88.9. In 2003 he wrote the definitive book about the Seattle Mariners, Out of Left Field, which became a regional bestseller. In 2009, along with Rudman and KJR 950 afternoon host Mike Gastineau, Thiel authored The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists, a cross between historylink.org and Mad Magazine that has become mandatory reading for any sports fan who has an indoor bathroom. A graduate of Pacific Lutheran University as well as two dead papers and a live one, the News Tribune of Tacoma, he has become a fan of entrepreneurial online journalism because it allows him to continue a lifelong passion to take the English language to places it rarely visits willingly, and does not involve the cleaning of kennels or stables.
After another running back, Mike Davis, was injured, Thomas Rawls gets another chance to to try to do what Tom Cable wants: “Don’t try so damn hard.”
Offering no apologies, coach Pete Carroll defended his fake field goal call as part of his overall belief in aggressive plays and playcalling that has served the Seahawks well.
Stout throughout, and behind throughout, the bedragged Seahawks had a good shot against the Falcons, but Pete Carroll’s decisions were obstacles too big to surmount.
Jake Browning hit seven passes in a row over the final two possessions to rally the Huskies to a 33-30 win when beleaguered Tristan Vizcaino hit the game-winning FG at 00:00.
Kam Chancellor is out for Monday’s game; media reports say he will be placed on injured reserve. But coach Pete Carroll wouldn’t confirm that Chancellor’s season is over.
The Seahawks QB was reduced to a liquid diet for a few days after the game at Arizona, where doctors say a blow nearly required his jaw to be wired shut.
Carroll says Seahawks are “not going to not run it,” a double negative that may have ironic meaning. Or something. Anyway, LT Tobin, 4th man up at LT, has never played the spot.
After a committee advanced Oak View’s proposed $660 million remodel of Key Arena to the city council, member Debora Juarez slammed Sodo arena as “yesterday’s news.”
Lucky Falcons: If ever there were a good time to play the Carroll/Wilson-era Seahawks (6-3), it is now. The injuries pile up, and the guys on the couch dwindle.