Seahawks DE Michael Bennett, saying he wants to be a “voice for the voiceless” a la Muhammad Ali, pulled out of a players’ trip to Israel once he understood the Israeli government’s agenda.
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.
Two fans heckling the Huskies in Boulder Thursday night got under the skin of Washington center Malik Dime, who followed up a threat by slapping both. Friday, he was suspended indefinitely.
The conference TV deals scored by the SEC and the Big Ten continue to get better. Not so much for the Pac-12, where operating deficits are as common as complaints about the Pac-12 Networks.
At the 82nd Seattle Star of the Year awards, the Sounders were the story of the year, and the Huskies’ Kelsey Plum and the Seahawks’ Bobby Wagner were honored as 2016’s top stars.
As expected, Chris Hansen submitted a revised plan to the Seattle Department of Transportation for his Sodo arena. But first, the city will consider the option to renovate KeyArena.
Firing Lorenzo Romar sounds easy, except he would get a $3.2 million buyout from a program swimming in red ink, and the Huskies would likely lose the program’s best recruiting class. Still,107-66 at a home sellout?
After falling 34-28 in overtime, Falcons coach Dan Quinn had the distinct displeasure of losing Super Bowls twice to the remorseless of Patriots QB Tom Brady, who led insufferable New England to another title.
The Seahawks were good enough to beat both Super Bowl entrants, but imploded physically and emotionally over the season’s second half. Richard Sherman was in the middle of all of it. Is it time for a big change?
The Huskies’ football recruiting class drew a composite ranking of 23rd, a number meaningless to Chris Petersen, whose track record without five-star players shouts for itself.
Why is it that journalists vote on awards for another industry? It’s a sports custom whose time has come and gone. Baseball in particular can’t even explain its standards for admission, so don’t look to us.