John Schneider wryly described it before any writer had a chance: “A love fest.” The Seahawks general manager Friday was announcing the club’s agreement to extend head coach Pete Carroll’s contract through the 2016 season, and was a little embarrassed at gushing up so many compliments. But when his team wins the Super Bowl 43-8,
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.
Entering his final contract year, Pete Carroll is getting a contract extension that most assumed was coming after his Super Bowl triumph.
DeSean Jackson didn’t take long to find a taker in his sudden free agency, signing with the Redskins for $24M. But Richard Sherman didn’t care much for the “gang-ties” connection.
Apparently conceding nothing will be happening for awhile on his proposed arena site, Chris Hansen told an audience at a fundraising breakfast Wednesday that he will dedicate some of the interior space he owns in SoDo to the A-Plus Youth Foundation.
A National Labor Relations Board ruling permitting college athletes to unionize will be an NCAA disaster only if colleges fail to reform their sports-business practices.
At the open house at Safeco Field Monday night, some of the 10,000 or so who showed enjoyed the giant-screen telecast of the Angels-Mariners game from their seats on a rainless (!!) March evening. Others were permitted onto the field’s warning track, where they walked in circles.
Shocking as was the hire of Cano, it is equally dismaying to Mariners fans that the club didn’t upgrade elsewhere before the start Monday of the 2014 season.
After a story broke alleging gang affiliations, DeSean Jackson was cut Friday by the Eagles. Pete Carroll goes back a decade with Jackson. Do Seahawks have the money, guts?
As with all Super Bowl champions, the Seahawks must stand still as others pick off their feathers in free agency. They are not yet naked.
The 49ers are readying mega-millions for QB Colin Kaepernick — despite his final half vs. the Seahawks. Russell Wilson should be thrilled. NFC West pressure builds anew.