Justin Britt will be tried at center, his third position in three seasons, as the Seahawks re-sort their offensive line after the draft produced some potential help for 2016.
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.
Two quarterbacks with big college resumes who went undrafted, Trevone Boykin and Vernon Adams, are at Seahawks rookie mini-camp this weekend, hoping to learn in the shadow of Russell Wilson.
After the City Council voted against Chris Hansen’s arena, some sports fans flooded the accounts of the female council members with disgusting comments that only made matters worse.
Chris Hansen said he has not foreclosed on his project yet. Meanwhile, King County Councilman Pete von Reichbauer cheered the decision, saying there are more options out there than the Hansen’s proposal.
Council president Bruce Harrell thinks the national conversation about income inequality played an unspoken part in five council members supporting hypothetical job losses instead of a hypothetical NBA team.
Spencer Haywood, the greatest Sonic, has an even greater story that changed pro basketball. A Seattle filmmaker has documented the saga, which will debut at the Seattle International Film Festival.
“The best run-stuffer in the draft,” says GM John Schneider of Jarran Reed, the second-round pick. And since he comes from Nick Saban’s factory, he should be plug and play.
The Seahawks finally used a first-round pick on a college player, taking a very large one, Germain Ifedi, to protect a little guy. “He can be a cornerstone,” says Tom Cable.
For the first time since 2012, the Seahawks used their first-round pick to draft a player, taking OT Germain Ifedi from Texas A&M. The Seahawks traded down to the 31st spot, giving up the 26th pick to Denver in exchange for 31 and 94th in the third round. Below is the scouting report from Pro Football
An agreement has been reached on scheduling among the three current pro teams in Sodo and Chris Hansen’s group trying to build an arena in the neighborhood, perhaps paving the way for the Seattle city council to approve Monday Hansen’s request for vacating a portion of Occidental Avenue.