As the Sounders’ seventh season commences, a front office change, along with investments in the future, signal an intensified ambition to a global empire.
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.
It’s fair to wonder what possesses someone to squander a glorious early spring afternoon in Seattle to attend the final game of a Huskies regular basketball season that was the equivalent of an upright piano falling down five flights of stairs. Just hadda see history.
Seahawks radio analyst Warren Moon said Marshawn Lynch is distrustful of many, which was why he hinted he believed Seahawks wanted Russell Wilson to be Super Bowl hero.
Preparing for some losses in free agency, the Seahawks signed free agent LB Mister Alexander, who has not played in NFL the past two seasons after going undrafted in 2011 out of Florida State, then joining the Houston Texans.
A bad guy made off with my laptop. A good guy brought it back — a newcomer to town who risked a lot for a stranger. Stranger still, he has fondness for journalists. I still can’t believe it.
Michael Yormark, president of Jay Z’s Roc Nation that reps Robinson Cano, is ready to take the wraps off the Mariners’ All-Star second baseman in his second year in Seattle.
Injured in the NFC Championship, Earl Thomas will be out six to eighth months rehabbing his left shoulder after the torn labrum was surgically repaired Tuesday.
The Washington Huskies’ 2015 football opener in Boise finally has a fixed date, Sept. 4, but the starting time remains a secret, part of the consumer harassment program that must be in the agreement between the Pac-12 Conference and its masters, ESPN and Fox Sports.
The Seahawks are paying for a 1,000-seat expansion in the Clink’s south-end upper concourse, which will feature a partly covered party deck.
The Raiders and Chargers are exploring building a $1.7 billion stadium in Los Angeles to house both teams. Leverage play? At least. But the key is no public funding, Listening, Seattle?