Kelsey Plum had her first career double-double as Washington routed Oklahoma 108-82 Monday, moving on in the NCAA tourney and leaving an indelible memory of a great hoops time.
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.
The chance for a big-stage flop was real in the ceremony-filled opener, but the Sounders responded in the Sunday win over the New York Red Bulls like the champions they are.
After a slow start, Kelsey Plum still produced 29 points in Washington’s 91-63 win over Montana State. Next up in the NCAA tourney is Oklahoma, which beat the Huskies in each of the past two seasons.
The freakish run from nowhere to the MLS title is highly unlikely to be repeated by the Sounders in 2017. Which doesn’t preclude a younger, deeper team from repeating in a more conventional way.
The 107-66 loss to UCLA at a sold-out Hec Ed was the soul-crushing moment that revealed the breadth of despair in Washington men’s hoops. It was coming for a long time. Cohen did the right thing.
Pete Carroll calls newcomer RB Eddie Lacy “the hammer” Seahawks didn’t have last season. Along with $7 million to LT Luke Joeckel, it is the cost of doing business without Marshawn Lynch.
Normally the outcome of a spring training game is barely worth the pixels to explain. But when the Mariners, who know something about losing, are defeated 24-3 (box), attention is demanded. The Milwaukee Brewers were the perps Monday at their park in Maryvale, AZ, and the Seattle victims, as determined by bits of forensic evidence,
Gonzaga may have the tools to win the NCAA tourney this time, while Washington falls even further behind after losing Nigel Williams-Goss to the Zags. His Bulldogs love went national Monday.
T.J. Lang, the best remaining free agent offensive lineman, spurned the Seahawks Sunday for the Lions. And it turns out $7 million of Luke Joeckel’s $8 million deal is guaranteed. What?!
Nothing in the pro resume of Luke Joeckel suggests he is more than experienced insurance for the O-line. But another free agent, T.J. Lang of Green Bay, would be, if healthy, a difference-maker.