As Harbaugh evades and harrumphs through the fallout of the Seahawks loss, Carroll is sunshine, lollipops and rainbows. How sad for Harbaugh.
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.
Another postseason meeting with Galaxy, another postseason exit for Sounders. “They have our number,” said Brad Evans.
More speculation on the endless mystery of Marshawn Lynch: NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport, via anonymous sources, wrote Sunday that the Seahawks’ star may retire after the 2014 season, at least partly due to health. That would mean walking away from a $5 million base salary due him in 2015, but his increasingly public efforts to play
NT Danny Shelton, complete with a stunt maneuver, led Washington to a near-shutdown of the nation’s top-rated passing attack in a 31-13 Apple up triumph in Pullman.
Again, the Apple Cup is ceremonial, as opposed to relevant. As college football continues to pull apart as it goes pro, it’s only going to get tougher for WSU.
In a post-gamer tweet, 49ers owner Jed York apologized for poor play. When that happens, it’s plain that the Seahawks ae deep into the 49ers’ psyches.
Three non-football episodes in the short week leading to the 49ers game prompts a question: Isn’t the season tough enough without making trouble in high places?
Huskies coach Chris Petersen is new to the Apple Cup, so perhaps he’ll get a snowy, freezing night in Pullman to really understand the high standards of the rivalry.
A meeting organized by Carroll during the week was a catalyst to create “the best feeling we’ve had all year” on defense in the Seahawks’ win over division-leading Arizona.
Washington QB Cyler Miles had his most complete game in a 37-13 win over Oregon State that made the Huskies bowl-eligible.