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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 bad Seahawks news Sunday officially became the worst news Tuesday: DT Brandon Mebane is done for the season and on the injured reserve list after apparently tearing his right hamstring in the 38-17 win over the New York Giants.
After a 0-0 tie with FC Dallas, the Sounders advanced on a road-goals tiebreaker to meet nemesis Los Angeles in the MLS Western Conference finals.
Desperate for big plays somewhere, UW coach Chris Petersen will start Shaq Thompson and John Ross III on defense Saturday at Arizona, a nine-point favorite.
Over the past three weeks — since the Harvin trade — the Seahawks have returned to what they do best, delivering a ground beating the likes of which the Giants had not known.
The firing of CB Peters was distracting, the injury loss of LB Kikaha was distressing, and having almost no downfield passing game was disabling for the Huskies Saturday.
It’s not the Huskies he hates. The UCLA coach quietly rages at how he left his hometown — fired after a single season as Seahawks head coach. This is not a simple business trip.
As Seahawks coach Pete Carroll did with Percy Harvin, Huskies coach Chris Petersen saw star CB Marcus Peters’ insubordination as a threat to his control of the team.
Against Oakland Sunday, the Seahawks’ offensive line had for a time four newbies and old man Sweezy. Said Cable to Garry Gilliam: “How many plays do you know at guard?”
After waiving him Saturday, the Seahawks brought back WR/KR Bryan Walters Tuesday — his 27th birthday — to the 53-man roster as the club continues to shuffle players to fill holes on the roster created by injuries. Walters was cut to make room for backups in the decimated secondary for Sunday’s game against Oakland. Walters