Sounders begin season shorthanded, without Montero, Park, Alonso and probably Tiffert. But it’s the potential signing of flashy Euro star Martins that is creating buzz for 2013.
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.
Gonzaga may be the nation’s No. 1 team by Monday, and has a good shot at the national championship. Meanwhile, the Huskies play the Cougars Sunday for . . . a couple of hours.
Judge dismisses longshore workers’ suit, saying no judicial action can happen on an environmental review that hasn’t been done; Hansen’s plan for NBA return one step closer.
The Mariners have nine outfielders in spring training, and one needs to be better than Mike Carp, who is destined to be an All-Star in Boston after getting the “Mariners Bump.”
Saying fans have been wrong before about his players, Lorenzo Romar defended his senior captain, who needs to prove him right in the desert Wednesday against Arizona.
For all the theatrics and histrionics, Lakers owner Jerry Buss changed the NBA like no other owner. And his teams were always there to thwart the Sonics.
At the All-Star Game in Houston, Stern says Sacramento’s bid “plausible” and Seattle bid “strong,” and offers a snarky reminder of the dubious political support for the Sonics in ’06.
Felix Hernandez is a longtime Mariner because he enjoys being here as much as the franchise enjoys having him. Corny, sentimental and true as a perfect game.
The pending deal to make Felix Hernandez’s baseball’s highest paid pitcher is a break from Mariners’ inertia. Then again, given their predicament, did they really have a choice?
Washington seems to have a nice football recruiting class, but no one really knows. What is factual is that they finally have a stadium that can play with the Eugenes.