Another cold day greeted a Seahawks playoff game, but they were warmed by the presence of RB Marshawn Lynch, ready for his first game action since Nov. 15.
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.
Marshawn Lynch dispenses his big news decisions in fresh ways. He was asked Thursday by Kent native Kenny Mayne, a big Seahawks fan who moonlights with ESPN, about whether he would play in Sunday’s divisional round playoff game in Charlotte against top-seeded Carolina.
The game Sunday in Charlotte matches the two best teams in the NFL’s playoff field of eight. So let’s just save all the glitter and hype and call this Seahawks-Panthers the Super Bowl.
RB Marshawn Lynch was at practice Wednesday, going full speed. Teammate Doug Baldwin dismisses any speculation about drama. And punter Jon Ryan explains his face-plant.
Pete Carroll says Vikings kicker Blair Walsh rushed his fateful field goal attempt Sunday. The miss allowed the Seahawks to win and the coaches to do a dive into the timing of placekicks.
On a day loaded with problems, QB Russell Wilson turned potentially the worst play into a game-breaker that sends the Seahawks on to Carolina Sunday.
MINNEAPOLIS — Tickets were going for as little as $50 for the Seahawks-Vikings game, indicating that there was at least some common sense in the marketplace Sunday for sitting in kickoff temps at minus-6 degrees, with a minus -25 wind chill — the coldest game in Vikings history, and of course, in Seahawks history, as
A walk around town revealed that the first day of a real Minnesota winter arrived Saturday, just in time or the Seahawks-Vikings playoff game here Sunday.
With a police escort from Sea-Tac, Ken Griffey Jr. made it to town Friday night. There were stories, jokes and memories, especially one about and a dad and his boy playing ball.
Because of their slow start (0-2, 4-5), the Seahawks failed to again populate the Associated Press All-Pro first team — except for rookie kick returner Tyler Lockett.