WR Doug Baldwin hits a big payday with a four-year contract extension from the Seahawks that includes $24.5 million in guaranteed money. Total value puts him seventh among NFL receivers.
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.
James Paxton and Nathan Karns are the healthy starters in the Mariners rotation. When they can’t get into the sixth inning, the slog to catch up in the AL West is steeper and slicker.
The Seahawks backup quarterback the past three seasons, Jackson was arrested in central Florida Friday after police said his wife claimed he threatened her with a gun.
The Mariners brought up three pitchers from AAA Tacoma Friday to deal with an injury crisis. Among those moved to make room was LF Nori Aoki, who had minor league options left.
Former Huskies and Blazers star Brandon Roy is taking his first coaching job at Seattle’s Nathan Hale High, where star UW recruiting target Michael Porter Jr. will transfer to and play his senior season.
With the Blazers’ hire of Kevin Calabro, a Portland columnist speculated that Blazers owner Paul Allen might have an agenda to move the team. More likely, it’s to get more fans to watch on TV.
After allowing the defense and Marshawn Lynch to lead, the Seahawks’ command now belongs to QB Russell Wilson, who has become to coach Pete Carroll, “a real true vet.”
A part of the Copa America Centenario was claimed by Seattle Thursday night as a raucous crowd celebrated a 2-1 win over Ecuador that included a goal and assist from the Sounders’ Clint Dempsey.
The life of Muhammad Ali opened a national discussion as to whether any athlete now would sacrifice for principle. Michael Bennett and Seahawks assistant coach Kris Rixhard think that is unlikely.
Washington’s women’s rowing program has a successor to Bob Ernst: Yazmin Farooq, for the past 10 years the head women’s coach at Stanford. She was coxswain for the U.S. at two Olympics.