Perhaps the latest punishable version of wardrobe malfunction in the NFL came Friday when Seahawks CB Richard Sherman was fined $12,145 for an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty in Sunday’s game at Tennessee — removal of his helmet while on the field.
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.
Richard Sherman, Michael Bennett and Russell Wilson have a game Sunday. They also made time this week to explain their aspirations to improve their lives and the lives of others.
Seahawks’ Sherman laments Trump’s “we/them” effort to divide fans and NFL, while a Republican senator testifies in Congress Russian trolls are amping the anthem-protest issue.
All the Seahawks stayed inside for the anthem Sunday in Tennessee, but not all wanted to be considered a protester. Here’s how Carroll dealt with the roster’s Trump supporters.
The already fragile Seahawks were out of sorts Sunday in Tennessee, with 11 penalties and assorted errors. The Saturday meeting to discuss a response to Trump’s insults didn’t help.
Responding to President Trump’s disparaging remarks Friday about player protests, the Seahawks and host Tennessee Titans sat out the national anthem Sunday in Nashville’s Nissan Stadium. The Seahawks entered the field arm in arm.
Myles Gaskin ran all over Colorado, as he did in the Pac-12 Championship, and the Huskies pulled away steadily behind a ruthless defense for a 37-10 win to open the Pac-12 season.
President Trump’s attack on the NFL was as pointless and irrelevant as it was inane, serving nothing but disrupting a popular industry for his self-aggrandizement.
Seahawks WR Doug Baldwin said Donald Trump is like “a child craving attention,” but also saw opportunity to bring the sports world together after the president’s incendiary remarks.
Jimmy Graham looks as if he’ll get a chance to add to his season total of four catches and nine yards Sunday in Tennessee when the Seahawks play the Titans (1 p.m., FOX). An ankle sprained Sunday against the 49ers has healed sufficiently to allow him to play, according to Pete Carroll.