Rams DT Aaron Donald has been a two-year menace for the Seahawks and QB Russell Wilson. But St. Louis is a crippled franchise, and the Seahawks are in no mood to offer sympathy.
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.
A record 10 Pac-12 schools, including Washington and Washington State, are among 80 schools playing in bowl games, nearly all of which are meaningless except for the donor parties.
The Seahawks stunned the Browns by getting a field goal off a drive that began at the Seattle 27 with 16 seconds left in the half. The Browns knew they were stabbed, just not how.
The 30-13 win clinched a playoff berth, but the method Sunday was gratifying to coach Pete Carroll: Backups stepping into prominent roles as the postseason looms.
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll declined to pick a starter Friday from the three-man committee that will carry the ball Sunday against the Browns. Likely that all three will play some.
In a surprising move, the Mariners signed their free agent pitcher, Hisashi Iwakuma, after he failed his physical exam with the Dodgers, who offered $45 million over three years.
Microsoft’s Surface tablet survived a beating from Johnny Manziel. The question is whether Cleveland’s QB can survive continual beatings from his alter ego, Johnny Football.
Pete Carroll surprised all with the re-hire of RB Christine Michael, whose inconsistency made him expendable. But Michael is talking a better game. Sunday will show if he can walk his talk.
In the Pac-12 Conference’s release of its 2016 football schedule Tuesday, it was plain that the Huskies and Cougars are attempting to stay in-country in their attempts to fatten the record against non-conference opposition.
That didn’t take long. The Seahawks cut DuJuan Harris Tuesday, two days after his start in Baltimore, and officially signed Bryce Brown to start at running back Sunday when Seattle (8-5) hosts Cleveland (3-10). Thomas Rawls, who broke his ankle Sunday, was placed on injured reserve to make roster room for Brown.