Hannah Cunliffe, a nationally ranked sprinter from Federal Way, should be at the state high school track meet this weekend. But a judge, and the WIAA, said no Friday.
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 reportedly had a team fine for PED violations in 2012, greasing their move in the NFL cartoon from cutie to meanie.
An NFL suspension for one Seahawk, a DUI bust for another. It’s only the off-season, but it’s never too soon for a serial dope-slap for a title-caliber team.
As Sacramento celebrated Friday, Seattle’s relations with the NBA — mostly David Stern — need to get better before anything good happens.
The Kings aren’t coming to Seattle, but the transaction “is not over,” say Hansen and George Maloof as they search for leverage against the NBA hammer.
The Kings will stay in Sacramento, according the NBA Board of Governors, which met in Dallas Wednesday and voted 22-8 in favor of accepting the relocation committee’s earlier reported 7-0 recommendation. But Chris Hansen still says he wants to be the 20 percent partner of Maloof family that has not agreed to sell to anyone
Chris Hansen and his Sacramento rivals for the Kings will pitch Wednesday in front of the NBA Board of Governors, who may finally decide — or not.
Sacramento has done much to deserve the Kings, and Chris Hansen potentially will do much to inflate NBA values. Will the NBA miss the chance to exploit both?
When Kendrys Morales hit a three-run homer to left in the first inning Sunday, it was among the relative few Mariners dingers to have benefited from the new dimensions of Safeco Field. But the larger point was the benefit of Morales to the Mariners.
Chris Hansen was not grandstanding when he said he had numerous options to get the Kings from Sacramento. The latest maneuver Saturday in this unprecdented saga has the Maloof family refusing to sell to Sacramento bidders if relocation is denied, then operating the team after selling Hansen a 20 percent share for $125 million.