GM Adrian Hanauer says he won’t chase the big-spending ways of the Galaxy for its DPs. But he admits that his own DPs aren’t top-caliber. What to do? Take some risk.
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.
Seahawks’ tainted CBs are caught publicly between an accusation and an appeal, meaning a distraction for a 6-5 team that doesn’t have room for a lot of mystery.
Carroll accepts blame for poor prep following bye in Dolphins’ 24-21 triumph over Seahawks Sunday, but there was plenty of responsibility for everyone except Wilson.
Blowing an 18-point lead in the final 11 minutes, the Huskies’ 31-28 defeat helped revive a Cougars’ program that couldn’t help itself. And 18 penalties?! What the . . .
The optimism of Russell Wilson is relentless, contagious and leading the Seahawks to a decent shot and winning the remaining six games, starting Sunday in Miami.
The Apple Cup on the day after Thanksgiving, when WSU is closed, is a slap to 104 years of tradition. Please feel free, Steve Sarkisian and many others, to tell Pac-12 Network to drop dead.
Notre Dame remains the lone undefeated team in the BCS. Only the Trojans stand in the way of denying the Irish and creating chaos. Fight on, USC.
Despite a furious attack, the Sounders couldn’t overcome the Galaxy’s big series lead, then spent the post-game complaining about officiating and debating whether they progressed.
After a terrible first half, the Huskies exploded on hapless Colorado in the second half for a 38-3 win, their fourth in a row heading into an Apple Cup against woeful Washington State.
Go ahead, make your jokes about the Mariners’ investment in a hood ornament. After that, here’s a question: Why not spend money on the “fan experience” of traffic and parking?