After some major personnel moves in 2013, it’s possible to imagine that 2014 in Seattle sports could have aspirations to success throughout. Even the Mariners.
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.
After indicating Monday morning Harvin was headed to the injured reserve list, Carroll later said Harvin would have a full practice Thursday. The mystery deepens . . .
Lowering the club record for points against to 14.4 per game was an achievement that Pete Carroll perhaps was proudest of in the wake of a 13-3 regular season.
For 11 months, the Seahawks made winning the NFC West title the one and only goal. Thanks in part to a petulant bunch of Rams, the deed is done.
The bowl game itself mattered less than usual. It was the statement the Huskies players made about perseverance that will linger from the Fight Hunger Bowl.
QB Wilson puts the burden of Seahawks’ offensive falloff on himself, but it’s also true that defenses, led by the Rams, have figured out how to limit him.
Sarkisian’s departure, the Tosh Lupoi investigation and uncertainties about the coaching staff leave the Huskies players only one choice — play for themselves Friday.
The regular-season finale Sunday will crown a winner of the NFC West, whose collective record of 40-20 underscores the magnitude of the feat.
Arizona’s defense Sunday joined those of NFC West mates San Francisco and St. Louis in finding ways to stop Russell Wilson and the Seattle offense.
Credit Arizona coach Bruce Arians for a brilliant plan, and the defense for executing it. The Seahawks were exposed, and have one more game to cover up.