Not that there was any real prospect of a move to Seattle, but the Milwaukee Bucks will no longer be a straw for Sonics fans to clutch. Longtime owner Herb Kohl announced Wednesday, pending NBA approval, a sale of to the team to hedge-fund billionaires Marc Lasry and Wesley Edens for a league-record $550 million.
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.
A compilation of salaries around the globe shows the Seahawks’ average player’s salary of $2.3 million was relatively modest. It’s not as if the Super Bowl was, say, cricket in India.
The off-season for the San Francisco 49ers has been just about as much fun as their final game of the 2013 season. Oft-troubled LB Aldon Smith, the first player drafted by Jim Harbaugh as Niners coach, apparently did something of breathtaking foolishness — telling Los Angeles International airport employees he had a bomb, while being
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Seattle’s experience with a failing stadium should inform Oakland’s thinking on a replacement for the Coliseum, an idea that has drawn the interest of a wealthy Arab prince.
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Cano sounded happy with his new team before the home opener Tuesday, which was watched in person by at least 30 of his relatives and friends in the sellout.
Seattle finally gets a look Tuesday at the Mariners’ $240 million investment, Robinson Cano. His hire puts all of GM Jack Zduriencik’s chips on the table to win now.
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