Pre-game protests have become part of the Seahawks routine, but it’s new territory for the Houston Texans, who have avoided the controversy — until Sunday at the Clink. Provoked by owner Bob McNair’s comments at a meeting that “wecan’t have inmates running the prison,” the Texans staged their first protest over social injustice, and it
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.
Back-to-back sacks of star QB Josh Rosen, including a corner blitz from Austin Joyner, did much to discourage the Bruins in Washington’s bounce-back rout of UCLA.
A warm evening in temperatures and friendships was wrapped around the unveiling of a statue of Huskies football icon Don James, all eight-foot-six of him.
Richard Sherman thinks new teammate Dwight Freeney is a classic athletic example of the mind supplanting the body in extending a career.
Two exceptional quarterbacks, UCLA’s Josh Rosen and Houston’s Deshaun Watson, are in town this weekend. Jake Browning and Russell Wilson can enjoy the back seat.
With injuries to Cliff Avril and Michael Bennett, the Seahawks signed free agent DE Dwight Freeney, whose most game was with Atlanta in the Super Bowl.
The Seahawks swapped out left guards almost every series against the Giants, and swapped running backs every play on the first series. And they got away with it.
Sometimes even players get impatient with the Seahawks offense. But Sunday’s game in New York played out the way Pete Carroll has proven works, time and again.
Cliff Avril told a reporter that he wants to return to the Seahawks this season. The plan seems to be to put the defensive end on injured reserve for eight weeks.
Despite the commissioner’s wishes, Michael Bennett will sit for the national anthem Sunday and, despite a painful foot injury, play against the Giants.