The NBA Friday approved the agreement between Steve Ballmer and the Sterling family trust, meaning the $2 billion sale of the Clippers precluded the need for the league’s owners to vote Tuesday to strip him of the team. That didn’t stop Donald Sterling from filing a$1 billion suit Friday, seeking damages.
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 doesn’t have all the silly money in Seattle, and Hansen wrote Friday he’s not quitting on the arena. Here’s some things to know after the latest turn, including NHL’s role.
This is what happens when a guy has no job and $20 billion. He does silly things. Like pay three times more than the previous top price for an NBA team. Oh, yeah — bye, Seattle.
Bidding for Clippers turns from outrageous to ridiculous, with Ballmer in the thick of it. Eventual purchase price could trigger a run on NBA franchises, perhaps induce expansion.
Seahawks WR Doug Baldwin will get $13 million, including $11 million in new money, in a two-year extension that will allow him to be a free agent at 28.
The champs are back in town 90 strong. It’s player development time for Coach Pete Carroll, who gushed about returning OG James Carpenter as if he found a new player.
Houston Astros are 12-7 at Safeco Field, adding one more Sunday in a 4-1 triumph that had Mariners manager McClendon grousing about making average pitchers look great.
Ex-Microsoft owner said he wants to be NBA owner, and if it’s outside Seattle, “so be it.” TMZ reported Sunday he is meeting with Shelly Sterling to talk about buying the LA Clippers.
Instead of the traditional jersey with his name, President Obama Wednesday was given a symbol of the bigger picture in Seattle: A “12” flag.
More than a dozen have moved on, but all the players who helped win the Super Bowl Feb. 2 will gather in the Rose Garden Wednesday as the Seahawks are hailed by the chief, President Obama. The team is scheduled to arrive around 11 a.m. PT. The traditional White House ceremony that honors American sports