Attempting to unstir the pot, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said LB Bruce Irvin’s remarks about wanting to play in Atlanta, his hometown, for the Falcons after the 2015 season were misunderstood.
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.
Joe Buck and Greg Norman will broadcast the U.S. Open for Fox from Chambers Bay for 32 hours over four days — almost as hard as the course will be for the players.
For Deflategate, the NFL came down hard on the Super Bowl champs: A four-game suspension for Tom Brady, loss of a first- and fourth-round draft pick, and a $1 million fine.
Felix Hernandez joined historic company when he recorded his 2,000th career strikeout Sunday at Safeco Field during Seattle’s victory over the Oakland Athletics.
Seattle mayor Ed Murray’s demand for more private money for the Sodo arena is just one sign that the project may end up losing out to a new arena plan in Tukwila.
Frank Clark made a favorable first impression Friday. But it’s all about deeds, not words, for the Seahawks’ top pick as he tries to dig out from a controversial past at Michigan.
QB Tom Brady and two Patriots employees “more likely than not” deflated footballs to gain an unfair advantage, according to a long-awaited investigative report.
As with Ryan Leaf, Aaron Hernandez, Percy Harvin, and maybe with Jameis Winston, football teams are sometimes incapable of altering player behavior. Why risk so much?
Unsurprisingly, the Seahawks did not pick up the option on OLB Bruce Irvin’s fifth contract year, which was $7.8 million. Also not surprisingly, Irvin vented on Twitter.
Seahawks drafted a bunch of intriguing players, but top choice Frank Clark had a host of problems at Michigan. Pro sports teams aren’t necessarily equipped to find out everything.