Hansen’s two-week pledge drive for season ticket buyers topped 44,000, one last gesture before he meets with NBA committees Wednesday to relocate the Kings to Seattle.
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.
Only after an off-season of acquisitions and a spring full of home runs is it possible to see how important was the trade of ichiro, from the lineup to the clubhouse to the payroll.
A 23rd-round draft choice landing in the Mariners’ starting rotation evokes some comparisons to the epic feat of the Seahawks QB. Maurer may be just as important as the new hitters.
After modest debate and four hours of public testimony, the Sacramento City Council voted 7-2 Tuesday night to give non-binding approval to a term sheet that outlines the financing and construction of a $448 million entertainment and sports center downtown. The vote allows the city to proceed with its counteroffer to the sale agreement signed
Washington coach hasn’t heard from UCLA or USC about their coaching vacancies, nor will he call. So the fire-the-coach crowd in Montlake has to park it for another year.
Hard endings for Seattle U, Washington and Gonzaga, but the NCAA tourney’s excitement ratchets up pressure to get a piece of the action in a one-and-done world dictated by NBA.
The December demolition of a good Kansas State outfit in Seattle offered a look at the best aspect of the Zags that will take them to the Final Four — defense.
NIT-bound Huskies play BYU in Provo two days before Gonzaga plays in NCAA’s first round in Salt Lake City. It’s a short drive to at least hang around outside the Big Dance.
A big week in Sounders history ended a little lamely with a late-goal draw with the Timbers. But Obafemi Martins made his Seattle debut from Europe — and now he’s off to Africa.
Ticket wait-list campaign crashes servers Thursday, but once restored, surpassed “our most optimistic assumptions,” said arena builder Chris Hansen.