A crowd of 15,617 showed up for Monday night’s Mariners game. Pennant fever? Hardly. But the scar tissue runs thick and deep in Seattle.
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.
Benched for a penalty and sideline misbehavior against Eastern Washington, junior CB Marcus Peters, a second-team all-Pac-12 selection the past season, apparently will be suspended for the Washington Huskies home game against Illinois at 1 p.m. Saturday, although coach Chris Petersen would not acknowledge the suspension Monday, saying, “Our discipline will stay in-house.”
Broken tackles, blown coverages and foolish penalties by the defense made the home debut of Chris Petersen an awkward one, but not disastrous.
The Seahawks’ depth in the secondary took a hit Thursday when CB Jeremy Lane reinjured a groin muscle in the third quarter of the win over Green Bay, while fellow CB Tharold Simon underwent successful arthroscopic knee surgery to repair cartilage damage.
WRs Mickens, Williams among numerous Huskies teammates who figure to be helped by the return of Cyler Miles as starting QB Saturday.
A sparkling variety of offensive weapons were unleashed around two big defensive plays that led to another dominant performance against a good team.
Lynch was his usual taciturn self in his first interview since the Super Bowl, which Seahawks should appreciate: One more guy who hasn’t lost his edge.
No witness will forget the last visit by the Packers, the 2012 Monday night game decided by the infamous “Fail Mary” by Golden Tate. But do you remember the first half?
Sophomore Cyler Miles, penance done, will start at quarterback in the Huskies’ home football opener Saturday against Eastern Washington. Sophomore Jeff Lindquist, who threw a stellar touchdown pass but otherwise was often shaky at the season opener in Hawaii, will be the backup.
Two undrafted free agents, MLB Brock Coyle and OT Garry Gilliam, join the Seahawks, making the rest of the NFL ask: What did we miss?