Hard to know how insufferable Jim Harbaugh would be if his 49ers won the Super Bowl. But they didn’t, so now he’s even crazier. Which makes 2013 season all the more anticipated.
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 NHL’s most woebegone franchise, the Phoenix Coyotes, remains a ward of the league after prospective buyer prospective buyer Greg Jamison missed a deadline Thursday for purchase set by the city of Glendale, AZ. For nearly four years, the NHL has owned the team as it struggles in the Phoenix marketplace. The latest development revived
Baltimore’s Ray Lewis is a tremendous football player, but let’s hear it for San Francisco 49ers in their attempt to shut him up at the Super Bowl Sunday.
Austin Seferian-Jenkins, the University of Washington’s All-America tight end, stopped by the SportspressNW.com booth at the Star of the Year last week to talk with Art Thiel. Seferian-Jenkins talked about the Huskies’ season, his decision to skip basketball, the post-Apple Cup sucker punch and why collegians are having such a quick impact in the NFL.
The Huskies finally came to play from the start Thursday night against Arizona. This time, it was the end that fell apart in the Wildcats’ 57-53 triumph.
In town for a speech at the annual Hutch Award luncheon, former Mariners manager Lou Piniella was a captivating figure for fans who remember days of contention and excitement.
Now that the Huskies have lost three conference games in a row — two to winless teams — the fire-Lorenzo-Romar crowd should be emerging from under the mud and leaves of winter. This is, after all, major college basketball, where you’re only as good as your previous half of hoops. Before that happens, there might
Adding Kings’ price to arena drives project cost to more than $1 billion. Seattle’s ardor for NBA hoops was waning before Bennett; will owners buy Hansen — and busy Seattle?
Felix Hernandez’s perfect game was voted Story of the Year at the 78th annual Star of the Year event; Marshawn Lynch, Mary Whipple and Nathan Adrian were also honored.
[ustream 10245181] Art Thiel is LIVE from the red carpet at the 78th Annual Sports Star of the Year Awards at Benaroya Hall.