The Seahawks plan to lift the team’s suspension of FB Derrick Coleman and, pending a physical exam, may return him to play Thursday against the 49ers in Santa Clara, CA., according to coach Pete Carroll Monday.
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.
Since colleges aren’t supplying honest injury reports as the better-paid pro league, we likely won’t know Jake Browning’s status before Washington’s game at Stanford at 7:30 p.m. Saturday (ESPN). But the freshman quarterback had a sufficiently sore shoulder to come out late in the 26-20 loss to Oregon after being slammed to the turf.
Carolina’s final TD pass to TE Greg Olsen captured the disarray in the Seahawks’ defense, which again blew a fourth-quarter lead, and must recover in four days at San Francisco.
FB Derrick Coleman was released without charges pending an investigation of a two-car accident, called “complex” by the Bellevue Police Dept. Pete Carroll has yet to talk with a player he calls “significant.”
A big home weekend for Seattle’s pro football teams — the Seahawks are desperate to get their swagger back vs. Carolina, and the Huskies owe the Ducks for an 11-year cringe.
A string of fourth-quarter flops, including Sunday, has at least one Seahawk thinking that life at the top has created some expectation that things will come easily.
Big underdogs Washington and Washington State upended the Pac-12 world with wins at USC and Oregon. Huskies primed to end the long nightmare with the Ducks.
Mistakes were everywhere, according to Pete Carroll, Sunday in Cincinnati; correction for any one of which would probably have produced a triumph.
24 hours after he was suspended indefinitely for reportedly drinking before a Sunday practice, USC football coach Steve Sarkisian was fired Monday.
USC coach Steve Sarkisian apparently showed up drunk on campus Sunday, and was given an indefinite leave of absence by athletics director Pat Haden.