Pete Carroll has a strong chin, and a will to match. He knows the Seahawks will be the most compelling team in the NFL next season. For a team so high to go so low so suddenly, and be so open about the trauma, well, the climb back up is reality-TV without the scripted outcome.
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.
Jerome Kersey, one of the NBA’s most well-liked players in the 1980s and 199os, and an 11-season fixture in Portland with the Trail Blazers, died Wednesday in Portland at 52. The Oregonian website said Kersey joined former Blazers Terry Porter and Brian Grant Wednesday as team ambassadors speaking to high school audiences celebrating Black History
While other positions have needs, after watching Tharold Simon flail in the playoffs and assuming free agent Byron Maxwell moves on, cornerback should be priority No. 1.
For the first time since the Super Bowl, Seahawks WR Doug Baldwin publicly apologized Monday night for the vulgar gesture that drew a 15-yard personal foul penalty and criticism from some fans and media.
Marshawn Lynch has had eight remarkable years in the NFL. But the Seahawks are all ’bout that future. Don’t be surprised if the Beast moves on.
Harbaugh tells his side of the story about departing the 49ers, denying it was mutual. But it is permanent, which is a shame for those of use who enjoyed his cartoon villainy.
In front of a national TV audience, the Huskies were predictably pantsed by the No. 7-ranked Wildcats 86-62, the only hope being next year’s recruiting class.
At 35, Kris Richard is young for a coordinator, but his time under Pete Carroll with the Trojans and Seahawks has taught him much about the highest of highs and lowest of lows.
Kris Richard, who played for Pete Carroll at USC, was named Seahawks defensive coordinator; Lofa Tatupu and Carroll’s eldest son, Brennan, were also named assistants.
While Pete Carroll is out there enduring the firestorm of criticism, Doug Baldwin is “having fun” with crude gestures and profane remarks conveying contempt for outsiders. Huh?