The U.S. national team fell up to the knockout round, continuing a high-wire run in a tourney that is offering many sensory delights.
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.
Another robust night of offense and more solid bullpen work made for an 8-2 win and an increasing sense that the Mariners have more answers than questions.
Sounder Clint Dempsey’s score for a 2-1 lead seemed enough, but Portugal struck in the 95th minute for a draw that made tougher the U.S. road to the World Cup knockout round.
Seahawks DT Jesse Williams lost his rookie season to knee problems. But treatment has repaired him to the point where finding skin for more tats is his biggest physical issue.
At a private ceremony in downtown Seattle, the Seahawks players, coaches, executives and staffers received Super Bowl rings and a concert by Usher.
Fresh out of enthusiasm for the Vikings’ QB carousel, DT Kevin Williams put a premium on Russell Wilson as a reason for signing with the Seahawks in free agency.
Despite rumors to the contrary, Marshawn Lynch showed up on schedule Tuesday for Seahawks practice. Kinda took all of the drama out of the off-season.
Vernon Davis, 49ers’ premier tight end, writes in MMQB why he plans to hold out, why NFC Championship game was best ever, and why Russell Wilson is best QB.
Hisashi Iwakuma almost didn’t make his start, and 1B Logan Morrison nearly lost his eye in a tantrum, but the Mariners survived all perils to end a 5-game losing streak.
Bolstering a strength, the Seahawks signed free agent defensive tackle Kevin Williams, a 311-pounder who started 15 games last season for the Vikings.