More alike than they are different, Belichick and Carroll both were hired by Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who gave Belichick the trust he never gave Carroll.
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.
Ex-Seahawk pulled back from his harsh words toward Sherman and Thomas. But the Seahawks are happy to see him — in only nine games, he tied for the NFL lead in penalties.
The mockery Marshawn Lynch makes of NFL media policy is sufficiently foolish to seek an amendment to the collective bargaining agreement: An exemption called designated mute.
Patriots owner Robert Kraft surprised the football world Monday by calling out the handling of Deflate-gate by the NFL and media, demanding an apology if no wrongdoing is found.
New DE Landon Cohen was running a valet service in Spartanburg, SC., a month ago, now he’s in the Super Bowl. The Seahawks always work the margins for talent.
The Seahawks arrived Sunday in Phoenix after a memorable sendoff, and Richard Sherman further inflamed Deflate-gate by questioning the commissioner’s objectivity.
Seahawks GM John Schneider, in a rare interview, says nice things about the Beast, explains (a tiny bit) about the Harvin trade and wants to keep CB Byron Maxwell.
Middle-school boys bathroom humor aside, the Patriots are getting smacked hard with criticism. It’s fair to presume they will use it as Seahawks use external criticism: For fuel.
Marshawn Lynch’s latest post-TD crotch grab went undetected by game officials. But imagine what would have happened had refs called a 15-yard penalty on PAT attempt.
While nothing went the way anyone predicted Sunday at the Clink, Russell Wilson knew he had one play that would go right. He even predicted it.