Behind Noah Dickerson’s best game, 21 points and 17 rebounds, Huskies prevailed easily over Seattle U, 94-72, giving coach Lorenzo Romar some evidence for his claim of progress.
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.
Arizona’s season has dampened the sizzle factor for the Seahawks’ game Saturday, but there’s lingering drama for CB Richard Sherman. Carroll says “We’ve already taken care of” any punishment.
Amid continuing chatter about CB Richard Sherman’s behavior, the Seahawks also made a noteworthy personnel move by putting Garry Gilliam back at right tackle. Again.
Seahawks CB Richard Sherman offered no apology for his sideline rant Thursday, although if he knew the facts about the Seahawks history from the one-yard line, he might not try so hard to win the argument.
Star RB Christian McCaffrey is skipping Stanford’s bowl game so he won’t get hurt in a pointless exercise ahead of the NFL draft. Coaches bail on bowl games all the time; why not players?
A 17-6 loss by Detroit (9-5) Sunday to the New York Giants (10-4) allowed the NFC West champion Seahawks (9-4-1), who beat the Los Angeles Rams Thursday, to move ahead of the Lions and back into into second place in the NFC playoff seedings with two games remaining.
CB Richard Sherman had a sideline confrontation with coaches over goal-line play-calling. If he hadn’t said the right things in a Friday meeting with Pete Carroll, he may have been punished for insubordination.
Rival ideas for a privately funded arena in Sodo or Seattle Center are stirring debate, including dubious remarks from Mayor Ed Murray, and a pained response from Chris Hansen.
The mysteries around Russell Wilson’s accuracy and the defense’s pass rush were addressed, and the Seahawks, decked out in Grinch green, spoiled the holidays for the Rams.
No matter how dreary their seasons, the Rams seem to enjoy battering Russell Wilson. If ever he needed a bounce-back game, it’s this game against these guys.