Breaking the NCAA record for career punt return touchdowns, Dante Pettis lit up the night as the Huskies played their most complete game in a 38-3 route of Oregon.
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.
A fifth-year veteran, Bradley McDougald will start in place of Earl Thomas (hamstring) Sunday when the Seahawks host Washington, a team that knows about injuries.
The brilliance of Clint Dempsey at 34 may give the Sounders what they need to prevail in the arduous task of repeat championships.
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CB Jeremy Lane failed his physical exam in Texas Tuesday, according to the Houston Chronicle, but the Seahawks are keeping LT Duane Brown, at the cost of another draft pick. The trade Monday between the teams was maintained when the Seahawks replaced Lane primarily by improving the 2018 pick in the deal from the fifth
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Russell Wilson is a roll: Big win followed by the hire of a veteran left tackle, and now he re-does his contract to give him $6.26 million in a bonus right now.
While the Wilson-Watson duel thrilled America, the Seahawks’ boiler room was taking on water. Duane Brown can’t fix it all, but he can help bail.
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