In his third game as a starter, undrafted rookie LT George Rant made no errors vs. the Patriots. Now he looks like the permanent successor to Russell Okung. Only with the Seahawks . . .
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.
Rookie RB C.J. Prosise had his first start Sunday and was a big factor in helping upset the Patriots. He won over teammates at the end of a 38-yard pass play when he clobbered a tackler instead of going out of bounds.
Seahawks QB Russell Wilson wants the NBA to return to Seattle, so he’s joining forces with developer Chris Hansen on his five-year-old plan to build an arena in Sodo using all-private funding.
Back in the place where he was fired despite success, coach Pete Carroll and the Seahawks had a transcendent game against the NFL’s top team, the Patriots. “A nice little night,” he said. Heh-heh.
The howling, sold-out house at Montlake did not make a moment too big for USC’s freshman QB, Sam Darnold. The Huskies’ Jake Browning, on the other hand . . .
Seahawks leading rusher Christine Michael suddenly developed a hamstring problem, which may mean rookie C.J. Prosise will get a chance to revive the moribund running game.
Yes, the wound is still sore. But take a step back and read this argument that XLIX was the not just the best SB ever, it was the pinnacle moment in NFL history.
If you haven’t had your fill of upside-down this week, here’s another bit of dizziness courtesy of the NFL: The league fined Seahawks CB Richard Sherman $9,115 for his collision with Bills kicker Dan Carpenter Monday for a play that was a clean block after Sherman was flagged — but not whistled — for offsides.
The rhetoric around president-elect Trump evokes some old feelings for Seahawks WR Doug Baldwin, a child of the South. He laments that fear has prevailed over reason.
The story of Richard Sherman’s block of a field goal and knockdown of Dan Carpenter took a crazy spin when the wife of the the Bills kicker advocated castration for Sherman, and he analogized to the Ku Klux Klan.