The Seattle City Council has set three public hearings to discuss the proposal to vacate two blocks of Occidental Street, a key development in Chris Hansen’s plan to build an arena in Sodo.
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.
Remember all those strikeouts, and times caught stealing? If the new “mental” coach, Andy McKay, gets some buy-in, the Mariners this season will look as if they know what they’re doing.
Bellevue’s police chief sternly disputes claims of unprofessionalism by Coleman’s attorney, who says police are trying to make themselves look good while making Seahawks fullback look bad.
FB Derrick Coleman told police he smoked the synthetic drug “spice” before a car collision Oct. 14 in Bellevue. His attorney denied Coleman was guilty of two pending felony charges.
The holdout of Kam Chancellor was the most unexpected blow to another trip to the Super Bowl for the Seahawks. They need to resolve it quickly, or prepare to deal him.
Another in a series of Sports Salons at World Trade Center Seattle features Mariners GM Jerry Dipoto. Bring your questions and opinions to the happy hour event on the waterfront Feb. 11.
The 81st annual MTR Western Star of the Year, Seatte’s biggest sports party, is Feb.10 at a new venue, the Paramount Theatre. Public voting is open for three categories.
Pete Carroll signaled the parting of ways has begun with Marshawn Lynch. His awkward, “everything is normal” remark signals that it isn’t normal. Which is as it has always been.
The Seahawks have had a four-year run of high-intensity playoff games. It seemed Sunday that the emotional toll left them vulnerable to a Carolina team on the ascent.
The Panthers jumped on the Seahawks early, as did the Seahawks on the Broncos in the Super Bowl. The Panthers took big advantage of the bye week to be well-prepared.