In the Players’ Tribune, Seahawks WR Ricardo Lockette comments on his role in the fateful pass in the Super Bowl. He says he can’t bring himself to watch the replay.
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.
Tod Leiweke, considered the best executive in Seattle’s modern era of sports when he ran the Seahawks/Sounders from 2003-2010, is the new chief operating officer of the NFL.
FS Earl Thomas was injured in the NFC Championship, but played in the Super Bowl with a torn labrum in his shoulder. The Feb. 24 surgery was successful, but he won’t be ready for training camp.
A developer of an arena proposed for Tukwila, Ray Bartoszek, declined to submit a bid for an NHL expansion franchise, the third of three area parties who said no to a $500 million expansion fee.
Seahawks cornerback’s third annual charity fundraiser was a fun day at the yard, where Kevin Durant showed no skill at softball and Russell Wilson did, undoubtedly improving his position in contract talks.
A report citing three unnamed sources said that Victor Coleman, eager to land an NHL expansion franchise for Chris Hansen’s Sodo arena project, will not submit an application by Monday’s deadline imposed by the league for interested cities. But another source told Sportspress Northwest that a rival plan for an arena in Tukwila will be
Hernandez is perfect, Cruz was 0-for-2 and the American League won 6-3, assuring the Mariners of home-field advantage in the World Series.
Mariners CEO Howard Lincoln said the death of Satoru Iwata has no present influence on the ballclub, of which Nintendo of America owns 55 percent.
The Mariners lost another close game, and close series. After news that Robinson Cano was dealing with a treatable illness since August, the question rises as what could have been done differently.
NHL expansion window opens for up to two candidate cities in 2017-18. But Hansen’s arena plan has yet to announce hockey partner, and Bartoszek’s Tukwila plan is in infancy.