The Marquess Wilson saga points to a need to have an entity beside his school and conference invited into the discussion. No one is on the side of any aggrieved athlete.
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.
By playing two road games in different cities with only two days between, the Sounders were set up to fail by a goofy MLS playoff system that does not reward higher seeds.
A personnel emergency pushed Austin Seferian-Jenkiins to defense Saturday against Utah. You will see him there again in the next two weeks — before he puts on a hoops uni.
Seahawks WR Golden Tate fooled the Jets with a touchdown pass (take that, Tim Tebow), and the Seahawks will take two home wins into the bye week at 6-4.
By arm and leg, QB Keith Price flashed to last season in a 34-15 domination of Utah, which also saw the Huskies become bowl eligible and TE Austin-Seferian Jenkins become a pass rusher.
The Jets Sunday bring their big top to town, complete with a QB controversy between Sanchez and Tebow. Seems like just yesterday when the Seahawks did same. What a quaint throwback.
Be prepared for the Sounders and Real Salt Lake to make their series deadlock so unbreakable that the coaches will have to settle it in the Thunderdome.
Mike Leach will never have the leverage of his first year again, so he’s running off WSU players now. But can he replace them with top-tier talents in Pullman as he did in Lubbock?
Yes, Lynch and Peterson were splendid, but without Wilson’s passing game, the Seahawks would have been . . . bad as the Vikings, who lost 30-20 to Seattle Sunday.
Scoreless for a fourth game in a row against Real Salt Lake, the Sounders draw Friday means they have to win Thursday in Utah to advance in the playoffs for the first time in club history.