Seahawk Doug Baldwin is defending fiercely his friend, Jonathan Martin, who walked away from bullying. Miami players are defending Richie Incognito. It’s complicated.
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 hire of Lloyd McClendon as Mariners manager is as meaningless as wings on a cinder block. No knock on him; he’s just the latest in a long line of victims in a dither festival.
DE Red Bryant is being treated for concussion symptoms. And two NFL coaches, Denver’s Fox and Houston”s Kubiak, went down this weekend, prompting questions for Carroll.
Tampa Bay executed a trap play so well that the Seahawks coach called it “embarrassing,” but was not something beyond repair for a defense that again gave up 200 yards rushing.
After recovering from a sick stomach, Marshawn Lynch was the man on six of the Seahawks’ final eight plays in a harrowing triumph over the winless Bucs. Lesson learned?
Defensive breakdowns cost the Sounders the home-field edge as the Timbers take 2-1 game and the advantage in the Western Conference playoff series.
Pete Carroll and John Schneider’s decision to take converted linebacker Bruce Irvin with a first round pick is paying dividends.
Sounders survive the knockout game with 2-0 win over Colorado but lose Yedlin to a sprained ankle and Gspurning to an ejection for a jaw-dropping handball error.
Hard to take seriously a team that manages 135 yards of offense and 83 lost to penalties. Harder still is that as Seahawks await a return the health, Wilson gets beaten to a pulp.
A 1-1 draw with the L.A. Galaxy Sunday forced the Sounders into a knockout game at 7:30 Wednesday at the Clink against the Colorado Rapids, who beat them 5-1 Oct. 5.