Chris Petersen’s debut as Washington coach barely averted an embarrassment, with two big plays salvaging a harrowing 17-16 win at Hawaii Saturday night.
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.
According to a story by MiLB.com, a Mariners scout heckled Jesus Montero at a game in Boise Thursday, then sent him an ice-cream sandwich. Montero threw it back at him.
It’s not necessary to observe long new UW football coach Chris Petersen to detect echoes of Pete Carroll and Lloyd McCl;endon in how he wants to run his shop.
The Seahawks had a brilliant drive to open the game, then the Raiders ran off 28 consecutive points. But Carroll was thrilled with the preseason look of his offense.
Coach Pete Carroll said he was “really disappointed” in the NFL’s punishment, but the rules changes in 2014 were a result of his team pushing the edges.
A tweet by a sports business reporter Tuesday said Seattle, Las Vegas, Quebec City and Toronto would be granted expansion franchises by 2017, for expansion fees that could raise $1.4 billion to be shared by the existing 30 franchises and not with the players.
One of the few Seahawks misfires from a formidable offensive show against the Chicago Bears Friday was the fourth-quarter moment when Terrelle Pryor, the No. 3 quarterback, floated up an awkward duck that was intercepted — a reminder of exactly the kind of pass Russell Wilson never throws.
The Mariners have been in managerial dither since Lou Piniella. In Lloyd McClendon, they seemed to have found a guy who manages up as well as he manages down.
Party! Come to F.X. McRory’s in Pioneer Square Thursday to celebrate the publication of “Russell Wilson: Standing Tall” from the staff of Sportspress Northwest.
Explosive plays and a more stout line inspires the thought that the Seahawks offense can carry the team. Should the defense want a Sunday off, which seems unlikely.