Washington’s women’s rowers bounced back from a clash with a legendary coach who was fired, to win a national title in the first season of Bob Ernst’s successor, Yasmin Farooq.
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.
Oak View Group backed off the 850-car garage in its arena proposal. But pressure came from the neighborhood, not the Murray administration, which wants a legacy at Seattle Center.
The Mariners salvaged a 2-4 start to their eight-game road trip when Christian Bergman came up big Sunday in Fenway Park and the offense delivered 16 hits in a 5-0 triumph.
An in-depth story by ESPN.com disclosed Richard Sherman’s lingering issues with the Super Bowl loss and the exceptionalism of Russell Wilson has but one solution — him.
After beating Garfield in March for the state 3A hoops title, Brandon Roy is leaving Nathan Hale to coach his alma mater, where he starred before joining the Washington Huskies.
In Seattle sports, there may have never been a more endearing character than Cortez Kennedy, although opposing quarterbacks may beg to differ. When he walked into a room, smiles were instant.
One of the greatest players in Seahawks history, Cortez Kennedy has died at 48 in Orlando, police said. He was NFL defensive player of the year in 1992 for a 2-14 Seahawks team.
The Mariners won a series against the A’s 2-1, then came the White Sox, who took three of four, including the final two by a score of 24-2. Mariners heading for dubious club records in pitchers, players used.
A sunny weekend brought more than 100,000 fans to Safeco, where they saw the Mariners lose three in a row, the last two by a combined 24-2. Yes, pitchers are hurt, but the healthy guys are doing little.
Eddie Lacy was too fat for Green Bay, which, for the cheese/brat/beer capital, is saying something. He has come to a Seahawks position that is way too thin. This will be a good story.