Just in time for the 49ers rematch, the Seahawks are developing a certain remorselessness that we’ve seen somewhere before.
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.
Most miserable sports city in America? That was then, and the hires of Chris Petersen and Robinson Cano create a new now.
Seahawks WR Percy Harvin will miss the Seahawks game Sunday in San Francisco. It wasn’t a surprise, given the skepticism earlier in the week, but coach Pete Carroll confirmed Friday morning to KIRO-FM radio that Harvin, who had hip surgery Aug. 1, is a no-go.
Often forgotten is that five years ago, no sitting D-1 coach would touch the Huskies football job. Now, it’s embraceable — by a big-timer.
QB Russell Wilson’s smooth, decisive game on national TV is beginning to create some MVP talk. With a quarter of the season left, what if he’s just warming up?
The Mariners and Rangers are reported to be in pursuit of five-time All-Star second baseman Robinson Cano, whose demands may be too rich for the Yanks.
Starting with the Saints’ first play, the Seahawks applied a beatdown — supplemented by an audio riot — that was done early and thoroughly.
Wilson started admiring Saints’ Brees in his Purdue days, now gets a chance to spoil his season Monday night at thr Clink.
Saints don’t like to hear it, but since the arrival of Payton and Brees, New Orleans is 2-8 in road games where kickoff temp is 40 degrees or under. Advantage, Seahawks.
QB Keith Price was a “little off mentally” in the first half of Friday’s Apple Cup, but came back in the final two quarters and led Washington to a 27-17 victory over the Cougars.