The immortal run by Marshawn Lynch Jan. 8, 2011, skewered the Saints, legitimized the Seahawks and layers in some juicy drama for Monday night.
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.
Suspensions of Thurmond and Browner add to the pile of drug-bust distractions for Carroll, which can’t be erased by soaring rhetoric about second chances.
Antoine Winfield, the longtime veteran cut at the end of training camp because he was beaten out at cornerback by younger Walter Thurmond, “is a possibility” to fill at cornerback, coach Pete Carroll said Monday, while the Seahawks wait for Thurmond to return from a pending four-game suspension for violating the NFL’s substance-abuse program.
Thurmond was starting for an injured Brandon Browner, making his pending suspension by the NFL an even harder hit to the roster — and to the Seahawks’ national image.
A ground game of 530 yards led to a record Washington win over the Beavers in Corvallis and quieted both the OSU crowd and some of Sarkisian’s critics back in Seattle.
If the Seahawks hadn’t scrubbed the rug of the Georgia Dome with the Falcons two weeks earlier, perhaps the Saints’ 17-13 win over Atlanta would have been a tad more impressive. But the next opponent of the Seahawks did not instill shock and awe Thursday night, allowing the Falcons to create actual suspense, until their
I-91 supporters Sonics Without Subsidies claims deal between Chris Hansen and the city contains “gross shortfalls” in estimating the real public cost of the proposed arena.
His shortcomings in the UCLA loss were evident, but Steve Sarkisian deserves a chance to mature and to recruit to the new facilities. Football coaching churn is a killer UW habit.
The Seahawks have benefited from a friendly schedule of sub-par QBs and an apparently injured Adrian Peterson. The trick is to keep getting better faster than the remaining foes.
Harvin’s kickoff return electrified not only the Clink crowd but the Seahawks themselves, illuminating a future over the next couple of months that looks better by the week.