Luke Joeckel is the first in line to succeed injured George Fant at left tackle, but he’s coming off knee surgery a year ago, and looked better as a guard.
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 talking with his wife, Justin Britt decided to support Michael Bennett’s anthem protest because he wants to understand “what is going wrong” in America.
As DE Michael Bennett sat on the bench for the anthem, C Justin Britt stood by him with a hand on his shoulder. CB Jeremy Lane stood in front of both, back to the field.
Justin Britt became the first offensive lineman drafted by the Seahawks under Pete Carroll to earn a second contract. His $27 million, three-year deal was done Thursday.
The Lander Street Bridge project completed its funding with $10 million from Port of Seattle. But the port lost some of its freight mobility excuse for opposing Hansen’s arena.
The Seahawks signed veteran CB Tramaine Brock, who was cut by the 49ers in April after felony domestic violence charges were filed. The charges were dropped last week.
New Seahawks OL Oday Aboushi is a grad of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He can’t believe what happened. And Pete Carroll was surprised by Michael Bennett’s protest.
Yes, he’s using the the same gesture as Colin Kaepernick. But listen to Michael Bennett’s protest in light of the horror in Charlottesville. It’s worth sitting for.
Preseason games are for the irregulars, and two highly irregular players, QB Trevone Boykin and WR Kasen Williams, helped lead a 48-17 romp over the Chargers in Los Angeles.
On jersey retirement night, Edgar Martinez thanked many, none more important than Mario Salgado, the grandfather who taught him the value of doing a thing many times until it is right.