One-time Sonic Kevin Durant has a new endorsement contract with Sparkling Ice, a Seattle-area company whose zero-calorie drink is, well, the Durant of sparkling water.
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.
No doubt: Felix Hernandez was named to start for the American League in the All-Star Game Tuesday in Minneapolis, a first-time honor for the Mariners’ star.
A crowd of 64,207 helped soccer transition from its World Cup fix as the Sounders topped Portland 2-0, the second win over the Timbers in five days.
Mariners close first half with a 4-1 loss to A’s Sunday, but take the series and further the idea that with another veteran hitter, they are playoff quality.
Down 2-0, Mariners steadily crawl back for 3-2 win to help give Hernandez another milestone and A’s manager an ejection after the game’s final pitch.
Serie A club Roma is in hot pursuit of Sounders’ young star. But a transfer likely won’t happen until after the end of MLS play. Meanwhile, the kid is back home from Brazil.
The Mariners saw the limits of their lineup over the weekend in Chicago. But team president Kevin Mather spoke cautiously about adding talent. It’s too late for that.
On the national day of independence, Seattle sports fan shall seize the moment of universal contention to declare independence from the tyranny of sports mediocrity.
It went to the 120th minute before it was determined the U.S. had to leave the World Cup. Sounders Dempsey and Yedlin played well, but now it’s time for melancholy.
Felix Hernandez delivers an eight-inning one-hitter, and Robinson Cano delivers the game-breaking homer. Now the club bosses need to deliver some roster support.