The power of the National Football League manifested itself again this week in the proposed merger of AT&T and DirectTV, a potential $48 billion deal.
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 Mariners appear to have gotten lucky with rookie James Jones in center. Seattle fans aren’t asking too much of the baseball gods to let Nick Franklin fix shortstop too.
At 5-foot-8 and 247 pounds, Kiero Small is a fullback straight out of Ripley’s Believe It or Not. At Arkansas, he broke 26 face masks of those foolish enough to go low with him.
Steve Ballmer says if he has to own an NBA team outside Seattle, “so be it;” NHL commissioner and prospective Seattle team owners press mayor to change MOU to dump NBA.
The tradition of White House championship recognition began in 1969, and for the first time, it will include the Seattle Seahawks.
The major off-season drama for the Washington Huskies football program has been resolved — QB Cyler Miles has been reinstated while WR Damore’ea Stringfellow will transfer, coach Chris Petersen anncounced Tuesday, with no elaboration.
The Sounders have to recover from a their worst loss missing three of their best players, gone to the USMNT and World Cup training. They knew this would be hard, but still . . .
He’s been suspended for life, so now the NBA has lost any control it might have had over Clippers owner Donald Sterling. Wonder what he might say next?
A visit to SeaHogwarts, where Seahawks sorcerers work to perplex on draft day, showed they did it again: Apparently James Carpenter has been shape-shifted into a studhoss.
Sounders Clint Dempsey, Brad Evans and DeAndre Yedlin are headed to the U.S. national team camp. Among those not invited: Former Sounder Eddie Johnson.