In another interview that was nothing like his session with TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel, Wilson tells a San Diego pastor that he and Ciara are abstaining from sex for reasons of faith.
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.
Sounders are 0-3 in MLS since Clint Dempsey’s act of foolishness in U.S. Open Cup loss June 16. The losses aren’t all his fault, but his failure to see consequences beyond himself is.
The Mariners’ one enduring tradition to baseball lore is the Mendoza Line. And it is the Mariners who are threatening to rewrite that standard of futility with Mike Zunino. Your move, Edgar Martinez.
The NHL formally opened the door to expansion. Commissioner Gary Bettman said at league meetings in Las Vegas Wednesday that applications from interested owners and cities will be taken from July 6 through Aug. 10, although teams likely would not begin play until the 2017-18 season.
USGA executive director Mike Davis pushed back at golfers who criticized the greens at Chambers Bay, but admitted they had some problems. Part of the problems included tightly wrapped golfers.
Jordan Spieth and Michael Greller have developed a bond rare between golfer and caddy. Might have been worth at least one stroke over four days at Greller’ hometown course.
A four-way tie for the lead entering Sunday’s final round promises drama, but the criticisms of the course come largely from golf’s stodgy culture of stubbornness when it comes to change.
In an interview-turned-rant, legendary golfer Gary Player Saturday basically ripped Chambers bay for its length and its slick greens that are a detriment to amateur as well as pro golfers.
The 21-year-old Texan rose to the top of the U.S. Open at the halfway point, perhaps inspiring him to join in the growing critical commentary on the Chambers Bay course beneath his feet.
Tiger Woods’ disastrous 80, including a farcical trip to “Chambers Basement,” cast a shadow over an otherwise mostly splendid day of golf as the Northwest’s first U.S. Open was well-celebrated.