Admitting “sometimes you fall in love with guys,” GM John Schneider signed an ex-Green Beret who had three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, as an undrafted free agent.
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.
DE Frank Clark has big upside, but his downside puts the Seahawks in the heart of the NFL storm concerning domestic violence. Carroll and Schneider have rolled the dice again.
With a heavy lift of Commissioner Roger Goodell, All-America DT Danny Shelton celebrated his first-round selection, and was joined by two Huskies teammates.
After playing Chambers Bay Sunday, Greg Norman said it best: “There’s nothing like it in the world.” Golfers who prefer predictability have no chance at the U.S. Open in June.
Understanding the conventional soccer wisdom that there is no such thing as an ugly goal, this was an ugly goal. But not quite as ugly as the game. Like in-laws who don’t care for each other but don’t hate enough to punch grills, the Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers languished and lollygagged for 76 minutes
Jeff Lindquist is returning from the margins of Huskies football, flashing some accuracy and smart decisions Saturday to take the lead in the 3-way contest for the starting QB job.
To give the Seahawks the best chance to mitigate the travail in Glandaie, it makes sense to play out the final year of Russell Wilson’s contract. Risks abound, but NFL parity is pulling hard.
GM John Schneider said replacing traded C Max Unger with a rookie was viable, and was thrilled get a player of Jimmy Graham’s caliber for the Seahawks’ top pick in the draft.
Former Mariners pitching coach Bryan Price, usually an amiable chap, made sports-culture history by profanely complaining about information that goes public. He’ll spend the rest of his career living it down.
Overcoming deficits of 7-2 and 10-5, the Mariners worked six walks from the Rangers in the final two innings, setting up Nelson Cruz for a walk-off single to take the series with an improbable 11-10 win.