After being on the radar all season, the Washington quarterback had a late fade and will not be among the five finalists Saturday at the event that honors the nation’s best college football player.
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.
Earl Thomas’s season-ending injury, and his halftime tweet, left many unsettled. But with both lines operating near maximum efficiency against Carolina, any sense of crisis was undetectable.
A play of pure athletic improvisation highlighted Washington’s 41-10 romp over Colorado Friday night, a win in which the Huskies did everything required to make the CFP playoffs.
Michael Bennett, Earl Thomas, Deshawn Shead and Mike Morgan will return Sunday against Carolina. But return of C Justin Britt is an even bigger deal. Also: Panthers LB Luke Keuchly out.
Washington’s football coaches Don James and Rick Neuheisel reached heights Chris Petersen aspires to Friday night. But can he avoid the pitfalls after success that ushered them out?
Teams with a vivid rivalry are more concerned this week with their own vulnerabilities than the caliber of the opponent. Seahawks shook up the O-line by making Bradley Sowell the starting right tackle.
The Sounders are a win away from a national championship, the Huskies are a win away from a Pac-12 title and a bid for a national crown. Will we be overdosing on sports success?
Pete Carroll grew sufficiently weary of question about the offensive line that he asked to move on. But when the line gave up 20 pressures and produced 3 points, it’s hard avoid to the room’s elephant.
If his Huskies defeat Colorado for the Pac-12 title Friday in Santa Clara, CA., Washington coach Chris Petersen trusts that his team will be included in the college football playoffs.
As Pete Carroll admitted, Seahawks were out-coached as well as out-played in Tampa. Getting away with three rookies on the offensive line went from dream to nightmare fast in the 14-5 defeat.