Fox Sports TV is bringing to the golf world 38 hours of live action from Chambers Bay, and has more than 700 people on hand and much cool technology to show off the tourney and the region.
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.
Three-time U.S. Open winner Tiger Woods found many mysteries at Chambers Bay. He described them all at a press conference that sounded as if he were talking himself out of success.
The Northwest turns its eyes to Puyallup native Ryan Moore, who is playing in his home area and having perhaps his best season. Why not a U.S. Open win?
The story of the rise of Chambers Bay from industrial wasteland to premier golf destination is about to go global. Here’s an eyewitness report from one who watched it every step of the way.
More than four months after hurting his elbow against Green Bay and playing one-armed in the Super Bowl, the All-Pro CB declined surgery and is back at practice. But it’s a a new feeling.
Mark Rodgers has reportedly sent a 16-page letter to the Seahawks. No word on what it said, but why would Wilson commit beyond the two years that keeps Schneider and Carroll in Seattle?
A 3-1 loss Sunday to Tampa made for a 2-9 homestand, worst in club history. Trades, tirades, shakeups — nothing is working, including an epic blunder Sunday by Nelson Cruz on the basepaths.
Newcomer TE Jimmy Graham is something the Seahawks have never had — a 6-foot-7, 270-pound power forward to go get the ball, especially when the play breaks down to street ball.
Troubled by a mound muddied by a dubious decision on the retractable Safeco roof, Felix Hernandez put up two terrible innings after three brilliant ones. Yankees, 7-2.
Leading off for the Seattle Mariners Monday against the Yankees: 1B Logan Morrison. For the first time in his baseball life. Manager Lloyd McClendon, in an effort to “shake things up” with his moribund offense, moved up the beefy Morrison to the spot typically reserved for team’s fastest player. Asked if he had the green