For the fourth time in their history, the Seahawks sat out the first round, but the team that ousted them in the playoffs, Atlanta, jumped up to take UW’s Trufant.
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 have done it again — they stumped the band. Trading down to the last pick in the second round, the Seahawks selected a running back from Texas A&M, Christine (pronounced KRIS-tin) Michael, who in his senior year rushed for 417 yards and 12 carries (4.74 ypr) and amassed 3,331 all-purpose yards.
Filling personnel gaps with free agency and a passel of young returnees, GM John Schneider has upgraded the Seahawks to where he can sit out the first round, and smile.
College football Tuesday adopted a four-team playoff. Hooray. Now get busy on the inevitable — breaking away from the NCAA and ending the hypocrisy.
Mariners CEO Howard Lincoln has refuted denied my characterization that he lied to me in an October interview regarding the franchise’s plans for its telecasts, writing in an email that the club’s new deal with DirecTV announced last week is not an “operation” of a regional sports network, but a partnership with majority Mariners ownership
The Maloof family that owns the Kings wrote via letter Friday to the NBA that the Sacramento offer was a “significant distance” of the Seattle offer from Chris Hansen and Steve Ballmer, yet Commissioner David Stern reiterated that he would give more rope to the bidders from Sacramento.
The NBA Wednesday pushed back the vote on relocating the Kings, leaving time to speculate about David Stern’s waning influence as commissioner.
Absent any details or explanations about how the pivotal new deal works between the Mariners and ROOT, they are saying, in effect, trust us. Really?
David Stern was accurate — the NBA will not be voting Friday on whether to keep the Kings in Sacramento or move them to Seattle. The NBA commissioner said after presentations April 3 in New York by both cities that the choice was so “weighty” that the league might need more time. Mayor Mike McGinn
Rather than waiting to re-open their contract with ROOT Sports in 2015, the Mariners are buying the regional sports net, eliminating the middle man.