The two Seahawks most outwardly dismayed at their contracts, Kam Chancellor and Michael Bennett, both said all the right things at mini-camp about putting the team first. For now.
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.
Former Huskies CB Nate Robinson returns to football Monday as the Seahawks give the 11-year NBA point guard at shot at playing in the NFL.
Mariners add to the club lore of never-seen-that-before when Robinson Cano stumbled over his own shin guard on the way to second base, where he made the last out of a 6-4 loss to the Rangers.
It appears that the takedown of the Bellevue High School football program could have the unintended consequence of leading to a teardown of the WIAA. One can only hope.
For the first time, Marshawn Lynch offers his own words directly into a TV camera that he’s done with football. No wordless tweets. No rumors. He’s all ’bout talk, now.
It’s way early, but assistant Tom Cable sees progress by first round pick Germain Ifedi, who needs to start and play well right away to help avoid another Arctic road trip in the playoffs.
Muhammad Ali was that rare successful athlete who was willing to sacrifice his pinnacle for principle. Doubtful we’ll ever that again.
Marshawn Lynch pops up from retirement for an interview with SI/60 Minutes to be aired Tuesday. The mystique continues to grow.
Rumors began last week that retired star Marshawn Lynch is pondering a comeback. Pete Carroll has been making it clear the high-maintenance Lynch won’t be back in Seattle.
For the third time this season, the Mariners were swept at home by a lesser team, this time the Twins. The way they did it was startling — beating up the starting pitching.