The name of Oracle founder Larry Ellison has surfaced in the attempt to make a counteroffer Kings. Ellison tried to buy the Sonics in 2006 to move them to San Jose.
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.
Part of the deal in bringing in Morales, Morse, Bay and Ibanez for 2013 was to give the Mariners veteran leadership sorely lacking in last season’s kid-dominated lineup.
Some things are different than the Sonics’ departure to Oklahoma, but the Kings’ pending acquisition by Chris Hansen evokes some painful memories of the summer of ’08.
Controlling interest in the Sacramento Kings NBA franchise has been purchased by Chris Hansen’s investor group, according to multiple media outlets Sunday night citing NBA sources. The sale reportedly is for $525 million, which includes the Maloof family’s 53 percent share and the share of one minority owner.
One Seattle way to look at the the arrival of the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl — other than plunging a finger down the nearest available throat — is that it sets up the 49ers-Seahawks twice-a-year meetings in the NFC West as happenings, not just games. Niners quarterback Colin Kaepernick did Sunday virtually
Three epic fails — Armstrong, Te’o, Leaf — made national news, but there is no connection except coincidence. Armstrong, however, has retired the trophy for sports sociopaths.
Certainly they are not the best team. But the Seattle Mariners may be the greenest team. Their passion for recycling outdoes the most neurotic Seattle tree huggers. This time, they brought back Mike Morse. A little earlier this off-season, they brought back Raul Ibanez. And even though he was never a Mariner, Jason Bay has
In the wake of a confounding defeat, GM John Schneider was consoled by his wife, who remembered the same drill from back in the day in Green Bay.
Lots of second-guessing followed the loss Sunday in Atlanta, but a game-long inability to pressure QB Matt Ryan was a big reason Seattle gave up a season-high 30 points.