DE Michael Bennett is out of Sunday’s game in New Orleans, and may require surgery to fix cartilage damage. QB Russell Wilson, however, made it through practice and will start despite a sore pec.
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.
Nelson Valdez, the designated player benched and derided, came in as a sub and delivered the match winner. He and his teammates couldn’t have been more thrilled.
No braces or tape can help Wilson through a pectoral muscle injury. For a game against the weak defense of the Saints, it’s time to rest him and turn things over to backup Trevone Boykin and the defense.
CB Richard Sherman was in for 99 snaps Sunday, needed two IV bags of fluids and was almost stretchered on to the team plane. But by Wednesday, he was on his feet, cracking wise in his Halloween get-up.
In a letter to the city and county, Chris Hansen offered to fund privately his proposed Sodo arena. All he seeks from the City Council is the street vacation, and he’ll kick in for the Lander Street bridge.
The Seahawks offense looked desperate before LT Bradley Sowell went out with a knee sprain Sunday in Arizona. Now they may have to break in George Fant, who never played the position until spring.
Maddening as was the tie for fans of both sides, the 6-6 tie between the Seahawks and Cardinals was a compelling episode of sports theater that is worthy of serious appreciation.
With 115 receiving yards for John Ross in the first quarter, the Huskies flummoxed the Oregon State defense, which never recovered. The deep bombs sent a message to Utah. the foe Saturday.
Defensive coordinator Kris Richard fell on his sword Thursday, saying the confrontation with CB Richard Sherman was his responsibility: “Maybe I need to calm down.”
The sideline rant by CB Richard Sherman wasn’t the Seahawks’ only dubious deed Sunday. RB Christine Michael went out of bounds when he should have sought more yards, Carroll: “We coached him up.”