Coach Chris Petersen dialed up a dramatic stunt on the opening kickoff to energize a team susceptible to a hangover from the Arizona State loss. Judging by the 52-7 score, it worked.
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.
At 4-5, the Seahawks confront the issue of whether money and fame have cost them their championship edge, while the 49ers bench QB Colin Kaepernick for Blaine Gaebbert. How the mighty . . .
Lamenting the aftermath of another wrenching loss to a good team in a close game, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll sent the game plan was dismantled because of field position following penalties.
The offensive line is in over its collective head, which everyone knew in training camp. Harder to explain how Russell Wilson and Jimmy Graham can’t function on a basic level.
Somewhere in the second half, the Huskies coaching staff needed to come up with words or plays to break the momentum of a slide by players not yet adept at finishing. The galling loss is on the bosses.
Big news from the Sounders’ annual Alliance meeting Thursday night at the Paramount Theater: Adrian Hanauer is the new majority owner, supplanting Los Angeles movie mogul Joe Roth, and Sigi Schmid will be back as coach despite another disappointing end in the postseason.
The Seahawks and Sounders were listed as recipients in a U.S. Senate investigation of sports teams paid in taxpayer dollars for “hero tributes.” Pete Carroll promises to get back to us on that.
The threat of a football boycott helped get a university president fired. While he deserved it, what would have happened if the tactic were applied to injustice in sports programs? Never would happen..
The Seahawks thumped the Cardinals twice in 2014, but with QB Carson Palmer and new RB Chris Johnson, this isn’t the same team. Seattle DE Michael Bennett explains the scene, as only he can.
While the players are no thespian threats to Robert DeNiro or Denzel Washington, they do handle cornball well enough that a parody video of Japanese sci-fi of the 1960s is worth four minutes of your day.