Russell Wilson will start his 54th game in a row Saturday, remarkable for a little guy who runs a lot, and better than Carolina studhoss QB Cam Newton, who is playing with injuries.
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.
The Panthers and Seahawks have played the same kind of game the past three meetings, all Seahawks win. But this one’s at the Clink. Another wreck for Newton?
Saying he was “disappointed in himself,” coach Chris Petersen took responsibility for the Huskies’ 24-0 halftime deficit that led to a 30-22 Cactus bowl loss to Oklahoma State.
The two biggest play’s in Sunday’s victory in came from a tactic the Seahawks practice regularly — the six-inch punch. They learned it watching kangaroo videos.
We in sports spend a lot of time attempting forecasts. But as Seattle sports in 2014 established, the unknown unknowns are just . . . well, unknowable.
Despite the first-half shutout Sunday, Seahawks are the NFL’s ninth-ranked offense. And that’s with 4th-stringers at TE and C. Bouquets to the backups.
If getting a bye and home field weren’t enough, coach Pete Carroll said Monday some other injured players are likely to be ready to return by Jan. 10.
Three big defensive plays completed the return from the precipice of a Super Bowl hangover to the same postseason spot from which they nailed the Super Bowl a year ago.
The NFL sent Marshawn Lynch a Christmas greeting — a fine of $11,050 for grabbing his crotch as dove into the end zone Sunday in Arizona.
Brash Michael Bennett declared the Seahawks defense the greatest ever. Premature, yes, but fun. And he has a decent point.