In re-signing for less than market value, DE Michael Bennett took a hometown discount and sent a message to free agents across the NFL: Play here.
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 94th-minute goal Saturday by newcomer Chad Barrett gave a clue — for a game anyway — that the 2014 Sounders are moving away from the 2013 disaster.
To little surprise, DE Michael Bennett, the Seahawks’ top free agent, will enter the NFL market starting Saturday rather than accept the team’s pre-market offer. He played on a one-year deal worth $5 million last season, when he led Seattle with 8.5 sacks.
On a trip to Minneapolis Wednesday to scout for a future outdoor game, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman threw in the direction of Seattle another tease about expansion. “There’s a lot of interest,” he told the Star-Tribune. “We’re hearing from multiple groups in Seattle . . . in Vegas, in Kansas City, in Quebec City. We
After a threat from his agent to sue, the NFL dropped its one-year suspension of Brandon Browner, allowing him to enter free agency March 11. His return to the Seahawks is unknown.
Suspended indefinitely for a violation of team rules, UW QB Cyler Miles and WR Damore’ea won’t participate in Huskies’ spring practice.
Silver apparently thinks Stern’s grudge against Seattle was funny. Seinfeld, he’s not. But he is much like Stern and the NHL commissioner, Gary Bettman.
Cano tells CBSSports.com that he wants Kendrys Morales and Ervin Santana as teammates. Nothing irks CEO Howard Lincoln more than being told what to do.
A “trade mission” of Seattle business people saw a hockey game and heard from Canucks officials how welcome Seattle would be as Vancouver’s rival in the NHL.
In Seattle, much hilarity attends the news of 49ers dysfunction around coach Jim Harbaugh. But those with a good sense of smell may recall numerous similar Seahawks tire fires.