The newest challenger to ESPN took a hit just to get in the ring — instead of the 80 cents per subscriber it demanded from carriers, it took 23 cents. The reward — 90 million homes.
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 increased in value four percent from a year ago to $1.081 billion, according to Forbes annual estimate of NFL team values. That ranks 15th among the 32 teams, and slightly below the $1.17 billion average for franchises in the world’s most valuable sports league. The magazine estimated Seahawks’ profits at $28.2 million for
Chris Hansen admits he gave $100,000 to help an anti-arena group attempting to stop public funding of Sacramento’s proposed arena AFTER he lost his bid to buy Kings.
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As Huskies fall camp opened,, coach Steve Sarkisian remained mum on suspending Austin Seferian-Jenkins for DUI. So the chance remains to do something a cut above.