Johnny Hekker of Bothell High School and Oregon State signed a six-year, $19 million contract extension because he is a wily weapon for St. Louis Rams coach Jeff Fisher.
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.
He has said it many times, but after yet another prime-time blowout on national TV, it’s worth hearing Pete Carroll explain how the moment never gets too big for the Seahawks.
Take a bow, maligned offensive line, for a splendid job in launching Marshawn Lynch and Russell Wilson to season-best feats in teardown of the Cardinals.
Cliff Avril took a chance coming to Seattle from Detroit on a two-year contract. His faith was rewarded with a four-year, $28.5 million deal.
Seahawks say K.J. Wright is a core player, and rewarded him with $27 million contract ahead of the heavy lift of a new deal for QB Russell Wilson.
A third-string QB leaves Arizona’s offense vulnerable, but Seahawks have their own offensive worries. Or did you forget the Cardinals’ seven sack of Wilson last month?
Seattle’s biggest annual sports party, the Sports Star of the Year Awards, is Jan. 21 at Benaroya Hall in downtown Seattle. Voting is underway for three categories.
6th round draft choice Ryan Lindley was on San Diego’s practice squad as recently as last month. Now he starts Sunday against the Seahawks No. 1-rated defense. Yeesh.
With another domination by the defense, Seahawks usher Harbaugh out of the division and set up themselves well as playoffs loom.
Protests around the deaths of unarmed black men by police have drawn pro sports athletes into the storm. Should they speak, or keep opinions to themselves?