The hoops scene in the state has been largely bleak. Yet Lorenzo Romar seems to have earned another season, thanks to money, a good recruiting class — and an imminent Title IX scandal.
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 Seahawks may want back Russell Okung, but he will find himself with multiple suitors in the NFL’s free-agent marketplace. When they can’t afford him, the secondary becomes the first priority.
At the scouting combine in Indianapolis, GM John Schneider admitted the Seahawks offensive line “got too young,” and they probably should have kept veteran guard Jahri Evans, who started 16 games for the Saints.
Seahawks CB Richard Sherman confounded fans and media Monday in an interview in which he said no one cares about the truth anymore, then made up stuff to make his point. What?
The Mariners have adopted an in-house slogan, “Whatever It Takes.” How would they know? It’s been 15 years since the playoffs. But it’s OK as long they’re not using PEDs, and Jerry Dipoto avoids it.
Both offensive tackles from the Seahawks’ Super Bowl champion team, Russell Okung and Breno Giacomini, will be available in free agency. Time to go back to the future? Sure. Or do you want a repeat of ’16?
Developer Chris Hansen says he’s not been blacklisted by the NBA, nor will he be short of partners to complete his Sodo arena plan. But he would like the Port of Seattle to see his project as part of the solution.
In a one-on-one interview, Sodo arena developer Chris Hansen lays out his skepticism regarding KeyArena as a future home for the NBA, although he would bring a team there if he believed it would work.
One of the hallmarks of sports, from kids to pros, is inclusivity. Which is why the Trump administration’s efforts at exclusion hits sports hard. Sports never was isolated from politics; it sure won’t be now.
Mariners spring training is underway with multiple storylines, some to like, some not so much. But was it really necessary to mess with Poseidon, the Greek god of bad baseball teams?