The Seahawks have come a long way in 2012, but they still have dropped four in a row to the 49ers and coach Jim Harbaugh, who left the Seahawks baffled in October.
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.
Even though fans’ hearts end up in their throats when Russell Wilson runs, he knows the risks, and goes out of his way to avoid them. Bills Sunday never tackled him on a run.
Only way the day would have been more complete was if the Seahawks left their prison-colored uniforms in their Toronto hotel rooms. But Canada is sensitive about American pollution coming across the border, so it may not be worth the controversy. The Seahawks can just toss the “wolf grey” duds atop the fire they’re setting
From his sideline-pacing area along KeyArena sideline with four minutes left Saturday night, Kansas State coach Bruce Weber yelled out to the court, “That’s terrible!” Twice. Presumably, once was for the officiating, and once was for his team. Any other accounting just wasn’t accurate.
No way Hamilton was coming to Seattle, nor should the Mariners have even bothered. Unfortunately for the club, they are in the entertainment biz, not the inertia biz.
Huskies run out to 46-19 lead and cruise, mostly, for an 87-74 win behind Scott Suggs’ 24 points. At least Seattle U. tried a strategy other than Hack-A-Husky.
The Seahawks will start only one player, DE Chris Clemons, over 30 when they play Buffalo Sunday in Toronto. Carroll says it’s his youngest pro team.
Seattle U. gave Washington a good game in the last meeting, and the Huskies Thursday at KeyArena will show up short-handed and unsettled. Time for the first SU win in 34 years?
Fueled by eight Arizona turnovers, the Seahawks delivered one of the greatest routs in NFL history Sunday to set themselves up well for a big finish.
The Mariners are said to be in the hunt for three free agent hitters. But a big-money, long-term commitment to one would make lopsided a payroll that has too many holes to fill.