Culprits were many and varied, but the Seahawks’ failures in the final minutes by the offensive line, which couldn’t sustain early success, blew the chance for an important road win.
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.
New GM Jerry Dipoto fired Lloyd McClendon Friday, a predictable event once it was clear McClendon was no more adaptable to new information than was Dipoto’s manager in Anaheim.
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Huskies coach Chris Petersen is still looking for a signature win in his early tenure at Washington. Could there be a better one than beating Sark in his park?
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Coaches and players, along with ESPN, drew a blank on the controversial batted ball by K.J. Wright following the late-game fumble that saved the Seahawks’ victory. Refs too.
A preposterous defensive play saved the game for a Seahawks offense semi-helpless against a mediocre Detroit defense. An the Hogwarts end zone still had some Monday magic.
Mariners’ 3-2 win over Oakland does little to ease fans’ aggravation over the bigger story — the Rangers and Astros, after terrible seasons in 2014, leaped over Seattle into the playoffs.
The Seahawks plan for succession at each position. Looks as if Jordan Hill, who likely will start Monday against Detroit, is in good shape to succeed defensive line anchor Brandon Mebane.