Some things we couldn’t get enough of in 2012, and some things we heard way too much. Sorting it out 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.
Wilson could have been chosen by every team in the NFL, and the fact that he wasn’t may be playing a role in the high casualty rate on Black Monday.
It’s Seahawks vs. Redskins in the wild-card round after Seattle pulled past St. Louis 20-13 Sunday behind a game-winning, 90-yard drive led by QB Russell Wilson.
In a Seattle sports rarity, a coach and a general manager seem to be getting along. There’s no award for best tandem, but if there ever were, here is my nomination.
Seahawks and fans are delighted that Sherman will play, but the fact that the drug-test failure was a story prior to resolution is another mark against a sloppily run NFL in 2012.
Lost in the fireworks Sunday was the contribution of two more from the Seahawks’ stellar rookie class, OG J.R. Sweezy and CB Jeremy Lane, both of whom started.
Winning the NFC West was the seasonal goal, Pete Carroll said, not merely making the playoffs. Being the wild-card means playing away from the Clink.
Dope-slapping the rival 49ers 42-13 Sunday night, the Seahawks clinched a playoff berth by outscoring their most recent three opponents by a combined 150-30.
Failures on third down, as was the case in the Apple Cup, did in Washington Saturday in the Las Vegas Bowl aginst Boise State, which came up clutch in a 28-26 triumph.
QB Keith Price can’t go back and sweeten sour apples from the Washington State loss, but stout play in Las Vegas Bowl Saturday will take some pressure off him and his coach.