If you find ritual soccer bashing as boring as the claims of American ignorance about the game, here’s a fresh debate: What does Klinsmann mean when he says the U.S. has no chance?
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.
The game was supposed to feature a showdown between two great Japanese pitchers, Hisashi Iwakuma and Masahiro Tanaka. But a rainout in Kansas City pushed Tanaka back a day in the Yankees rotation. So the Yankees trotted out another rookie, someone named Vidal Nuno. Who was Vidal Nada to the Mariners.
Seahawks FB Derrick Coleman, known worldwide for a compelling TV commercial and his work with the hearing-impaired, had an appreciation of his own to offer Sunday night.
Marshawn Lynch figures to be good to go for 2014, although physical proof is scarce lately. But that means more time for mysterious Christine Michael to test out his beast modes.
If the Mariners were in the sweepstakes for Kendrys Morales, they lost. The veteran free agent designated hitter, who hit .277 with 23 home runs and 80 RBIs last season in Seattle, signed Saturday with the Minnesota Twins, a team that was not in the speculation for his services.
NHL commissioner said expansion isn’t being considered, partly because Seattle doesn’t have a suitable arena underway, Maybe it’s time for Chris Hansen to change his plan.
After becoming one of the most eminent celebrities in the sports world, the Seahawks QB is back to business: “After tasting the Super Bowl, we want it that much more.”
In separate interviews Monday, arena developer Chris Hansen sought to tamp down fears that his arena project was seriously damaged by Steve Ballmer’s departure to buy the LA Clippers.
LB Bruce Irvin had hip surgery Monday, according to the Seahawks, who did not disclose details after the day’s organized team activity. Irvin offered offered via Twitter his own prognosis, saying he will be back for the starting of training camp in late July.
Roenis Elias was dazzling — the first Mariners rookie since Freddy Garcia in 1999 to pitch a complete game shutout — in taking two of three from the formidable Tigers.