A second-game loss, sure — it’s a Zags tradition. But a crushing by Arizona was not foreseen. Still, little was predictable in a splendid first weekend of the NCAA hoops tourney.
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.
Dempsey’s suspension was deserved, but the retaliation came from the league’s most-fouled player. In a World Cup year, does MLS care enough to do something?
Former Seahawks receiver Golden Tate had a chance to leave the Super Bowl champs gracefully. Instead, he fell back on a bad habit: The taunt.
City Council president Tim Burgess tells Sportspress NW that allowing an NHL team ahead of an NBA team won’t happen, because the financial risk is much greater.
The final environmental impact statement for Chris Hansen’s SoDo arena was supposed to be done by March. Now it’s September at the earliest. The NHL waits . . .
Once again, the state is left with a single entry, Gonzaga, in the NCAA basketball tourney. So let’s embrace another team that has a couple of state connections.
Another game of 25 fouls was delivered upon the Sounders, but star-studded Toronto had the means to overcome. Dempsey’s retaliation did his reputation no good.
Three free agents the Seahawks are recruiting have things in common: They’re 27, proven and had a major surgery in 2013. That means the players have little leverage.
Unsurprisingly, the Super Bowl champs are proving popular in the NFL’s free agent bazaar. RT Breno Giacomini, who started nine regular-season games and the three playoff games, signed Wednesday evening with the New York Jets, where John Idzik is general manager after several years in the Seahawks front office. Giacomini is the second starter departing
It’s been a mediocre year for college hoops in the state — except, of course, for Gonzaga. That brings out its own problem — creeping knuckleheadism.