Down 3-0 before they had a shot on goal, the Sounders, who hadn’t lost at home since March, were helpless against the Galaxy in a stunner.
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.
A Fox Sports story, citing anonymous baseball executives, casts Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik as indecisive and a vacillator, reluctant to conclude deals that are causing delays around the Major League Baseball’s trade market, which closes at 1 p.m. PT Thursday for non-waiver deals.
Basketball junkie Steve Ballmer will fulfill his longtime yearning to be an NBA owner. His $2 billion purchase of the Los Angeles Clippers, delayed by a nasty legal squabble between Donald Sterling and his wife, Shelly, was green-lighted Monday when a probate judge in Los Angeles ruled that Shelly operated within the rules of the
Hunt is on for evidence of Super Bowl hangover, a natural reaction after ultimate success. But Richard Sherman and assistant coach Ken Norton explain why it won’t happen.
Pete Carroll said Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch is unique because he set the franchise standard for toughness. That might merit an exception to the rule.
Acquiring Kendry Morales was so inexpensive, and the prices in the trade mart are so high, that the Mariners need to throttle back on the idea of throwing prospects at a quick fix.
Two days before training camp opens, WR Sidney Rice, who played half the 2013 season before tearing his ACL but was re-signed in April, has retired, the Seahawks announced Wednesday. Citing an unidentified league source, ProFootballTalk.com, reported that the 27-year-old Rice’s decision “arises from his history of concussions. “
Starting Monday, fans will asked to contribute funds to a statute commemorating Richard Sherman’s decisive play that sent the Seahawks to the Super Bowl.
Manager said “nothing was more grueling” than the Anaheim series. But he won’t publicly ask for more hitting help. For a night, he didn’t need it — Mariners top Mets, 5-2.
22,000 showed up to Safeco Field Sunday, paying from $29 to $382 a ticket, to watch Sherman, Seahawks teammates and Kobe Bryant cavort for charity.