After being ousted from the 2012 playoffs by the Galaxy, the Sounders’ bosses, Joe Roth and Adrian Hanauer, promised big changes for the fans’ big loyalty. They delivered.
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.
In a stunning move, the Sounders are reported near the acquisition of Clint Dempsey, considered America’s best player, in a transfer from his Tottenham EPL team.
The NCAA football arms race reached a new high (low?) with the unveiling of the University of Oregon’s Football Performance Center in Eugene. Fire the the photon torpedoes, Spock.
GM Jack Zduriencik, who is nearly 0-for-the-trade-deadline, was wise to try to win a little with what he has. Mid-season is a lousy time to build a team that isn’t a contender.
The sound of NCAA revolution was in the air last week as football commissioners cranked up their dismay with the NCAA. The change has begun toward a pro sport.
The bad news about Percy Harvin’s hip overshadowed lots of more pleasant developments from the Seahawks first day at training camp.
Booted from the Brewers for the rest of the season, Braun, the NL MVP in 2011, becomes first of at least 20 players to be suspended in an investigation other players wanted.
Best thing about the Mariners’ uptick is that it takes the pressure off GM Zduriencik and manager Eric Wedge to do something foolish at the trade deadlne.
Washington star tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins pleaded guilty Monday to felony DUI and will serve a day in jail. Now it’s Steve Sarkisian’s turn to make a statement.
The Mariners were once the most formidable offense in baseball. In recent years, they’ve been the worst. Lately, the power has come back. False positive, or real deal?