Marshawn Lynch, who has yet to play during the preseason, will get a chance to stiff-arm some Chicago Bears Friday night at CenturyLink Field.
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.
Ballmer’s purchase of the Clippers puts him in the NBA with Blazers owner Paul Allen, two of Seattle’s three richest citizens who couldn’t make the NBA happen again here. Huh?
The rookie linebacker from Montana started two preseason games in place of injured Bobby Wagner. Pete Carroll said he wouldn’t be worried if Coyle opened the regular season.
As a rookie manager in Seattle, where baseball careers regularly cul-de-sac, Lloyd McClendon asked everyone to give him 50 games before demanding an evaluation as to whether there was any way out for the Mariners besides backing up. So he was asked, on May 26 when the Mariners beat the Angels to go 25-25, what he thought.
An upgraded O-line performance helped the Seahawks gain 243 yards on the ground, including 4 TDs by quarterbacks, in routing the Chargers.
The Bellevue Police Dept. agrees with the Seahawks: The charges against RB Marshawn Lynch were bogus. The two-day investigation of a woman’s claim that Lynch was responsible for an assault and property damage at a Bellevue apartment ended late Wednesday night when the department issued a statement that said, “He was not involved in this
Seahawks had the highest QB sack percentage in the NFL in 2013, but Carroll says he doesn’t see the need to change the passing game to better protect Russell Wilson.
The NFL keeps records of many things, but it’s not clear whether the use of the word “bogus” has been offered by a team in dismissing a police investigation of a player is unique. So at least let’s call it rare.
A sluggish match finally turned the Sounders way in the 69th minute on a goal by Marco Pappa, ending a streak of more than 250 scoreless minutes.
Lost in the lightning delay, blizzard of penalty flags and tornado-like shuffles in the offensive line Thursday night in the 21-16 loss to the Broncos in Denver, was the calm appearance of Stephen Schilling, one of the best in Bellevue High School’s football history, as a backup center.