The sordid anniversary of the No. 8 seeded Nuggets’ upset of No. 1 seeded Sonics (63 regular-season wins!) helps explain part of why we did, what we did, three months ago.
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.
Seahawks SS Kam Chancellor had hip-labrum surgery earlier this year, but it was not considered a major repair. The story was reported last week by ESPN.com. GM John Schneider was reluctant last week to verify the story, but the Seahawks confirmed the news to media outlets Tuesday.
In his new autobiography, former Yankees closer Mariano Rivera casts doubt upon his former teammate, saying Robinson Cano may not have the passion to be great.
John Schneider and Pete Carroll have had great success in working the margins of the NFL talent pool. With only six picks in the draft, they have no choice.
The Seahawks Friday re-signed LB O’Brien Schofield and added free agent CB A.J. Jefferson, while declining to exercise LG James Carpenter’s fifth-year contract option, meaning 2014 is a make-or-break year for the the Seahawks’ top pick in the 2011 draft (25th overall). And an NFL deadline for restricted free agents to move has passed, meaning WR Doug Baldwin will be back.
John Schneider said the trade for Terrelle Pryor was a good value for a seventh-round pick, but wouldn’t go any further about plans to use Pryor elsewhere on the field.
NBA commissioner bans, fines Clippers owner Donald Sterling, promises to force him to sell. But what has Sterling to lose by fighting a league that has abandoned him?
Earl Thomas became the NFL’s highest paid safety with a four-year contract extension after this season, worth $40 million, $27.775 million guaranteed.
Free agent Michael Robinson thinks his NFL career is near expiration and is planning to move to a career in broadcasting or acting.
Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s punishment shouldn’t include hiding him. As President Obama said, the best thing to do is let the racially ignorant talk.