New book by former Post-Intelligencer sportswriter Dan Raley has revealing stories from the most compelling figures who shaped Seattle’s history as a sports town.
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.
After four turnovers and a muffed punt, the Huskies gave Utah so many chances that it finally broke Washington’s splendid defense in a 34-23 defeat that puts a bowl bid in serious jeopardy.
The Mariners’ starting pitching was in such tatters that new GM Jerry Dipoto’s first major trade brought RHP Nathan Karns, a rookie last year who was immediately given a rotation spot.
The Seahawks knew that in order to pay Wilson, the offensive line would pay the consequences. But at 4-4, the Seahawks are set up for a second-half run — at least until the Rams game.
Figuring out pass protection was perhaps the biggest virtue to emerge from the one-point win in Dallas. The season’s second half goal is simple: More offensive TDs. Only the 49ers have fewer.
Clint Dempsey and Andreas Ivanschitz were upon the decisive moment of the game — a free kick in the 86th minute. Who takes it? Dempsey said, “I want it.” The big-money guy did what big-money guys do.
Bailed out steadily by the defense, offense finally pulls together late for game-winning drive that gets Seahawks back to .500 — in a most harrowing manner.
With seven touchdowns in 14 possessions, the Huskies finally pulled together an offense that was worthy of their defense in a 49-3 rout of Arizona Saturday night at Husky Stadium.
Cowboys DE Greg Hardy is as good a player as he a pain as a teammate. But the owner/GM of the Dallas Cowboys, whom the Seahawks play Sunday, cares purely about winning. He’s not winning.
Three times in six years, the Galaxy had ousted the Sounders from the playoffs. Not this time, as Seattle seized Los Angeles’s defensive misplays to lift a burden.