Kyle Seager banged a solo homer in the seventh and a three-run shot in the eight as the Mariners defeated the division-leading Rangers two out of three at Safeco.
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.
Four goals in 30 minutes, two by Clint Dempsey and one by Obafemi Martins, offered up an eloquent case that the Sounders’ tandem is the best in MLS.
Make another entry into Major League Baseball’s Hall of Infamy: Former Mariners All-Star pitcher Michael Pineda was ejected Sunday for using pine tar — placed in a highly visible spot on his neck. His 2012 trade to the Yankees for Jesus Montero will be forever cursed as the swap of banned substances. Montero, caught up
On the verge of being swept at home by the Lastros, the Mariners staved off humiliation when Kyle Seager hit a walk-off, 3-run homer to end an eight-game losing streak.
Some will suggest posting this video in Seattle amounts to sports torture. I prefer to think of it as a way to share admiration of a stupendous athlete in Kevin Durant — and speaking of torture, in case any of us has an opportunity to waterboard ex-Sonics owner Howard Schultz, we now have the video
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Poor Mark Emmert. He could be admiring cherry blossoms on the University of Washington campus. Instead, he is decriminalizing cream cheese and calling it NCAA reform.
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