Many in college-hoops PNW are having big fun with NCAA tourney results. Except for UW fans. Their coach, Mike Hopkins, has one chance for redemption: The transfer portal.
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.
The Seahawks’ strategy to bring back pass rusher Carlos Dunlap worked, but part of the cost includes the cut (or trade) of DT Jarran Reed. Cold business.
Sherman may want a return to the Seahawks, but is he any more accountable to the team now than he was before? For that matter, is Wilson accountable to Carroll’s standards?
Astonishing the sports world, the Pac-12 was 10-1 and advanced four teams into the Sweet 16 of the NCAA men’s hoops tourney. How is this possible?
RB Chris Carson was rescued from free agency: Two years, $14.6 million. It also salvages a little dignity from the 2017 draft class, part of why the Seahawks are in a fix.
The return of center Ethan Pocic Thursday figures to settle the Seahawks’ offensive-line questions. Whether it’s enough for the inscrutable Mr. Unlimited remains to be seen.
The Seahawks’ remodel per Russell Wilson’s blueprint had a decent day Wednesday, adding a quality tight end and a quality pass-blocker. Spring nears; is love in the air?
Bears’ signing of Andy Dalton solves the final QB problem for the four teams deigned by Russell Wilson as desirable. So are Seahawks safe yet? Well, he could demand a trade.
As usual in free agency, the Seahawks are shopping at Costco while other NFL teams go to Gucci. Meanwhile, the Wilson saga takes a turn toward a New York state of mind.
Entering free agency, Seahawks have needs but few options. Haven’t drafted well lately either. Then again, trading partners have to strip down to fit in Wilson. Hmmm . . .