Cliff Avril, a prime-time, veteran free-agent pass rusher, is taking a pay cut to come to play for the Seahawks. That’s what’s known as a statement.
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 committed a lot ($25.5 million and three draft picks) to one guy for one season for one reason: Beating the 49ers. One word: Wow.
Seattle police report paints grim picture of Austin Seferian-Jenkins’ accident and behavior after arrest on suspicion of DUI. Sarkisian has some suspending to do.
While the companies of Chris Hansen and Steve Ballmer took hits, Stern put the squeeze on Sacramento AND Seattle with his cagey remarks Friday.
In town for women’s hoop tourney, Commissioner Larry Scott makes no apology for Pac-12 Network’s impact on schedules and players because it’s (nearly) all about the money.
The perverse history of pro sports in Seattle has another chapter looming with a competitive bid from Sacramento for the Kings. But if the history is studied, an answer emerges.
As spring practice begins, Huskies’ prime task is to get back the Keith Price of 2011. To help, they’ve hired the most productive QB Washington has had — Marques Tuiasosopo.
Suggs, Wilcox and Gaddy put together their best games together as Huskies handle Cougars, 72-68. The question remains whether it means anything for Pac-12 tourney.
Missing a boxcar’s worth of players, the Sounders had little energy and organization in a 1-0 loss to Montreal in the season opener at the Clink.
Defiantly denying Seattle and exhorting his flock in the manner of a Baptist minister, Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson turned his annual State of the City speech into a civic pep rally Thursday night by delivering on his promise to identify the people and the plan to keep the Kings in his hometown.