At the arraignment Monday of ex-Seahawk Chad Wheeler, his victim described her ordeal at his hands. It would be good the hear from the team, league and union.
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.
Poaching two coaches from the Rams is the highest compliment Carroll can pay LA coach Sean McVay. Modified prime directive: #KeepRussSafe to #LetRussCook again.
OL Chad Wheeler admitted gruesome crimes against his girlfriend, was arrested and charged by King County and fired by the Seahawks. Is there a way to prevent repeats?
Pete Carroll finally settles on Shane Waldron, an understudy with coach Sean McVay in LA, to succeed Brian Schottenheimer. Now we await word from Russell Wilson.
After nearly a year of meandering, the Sounders bosses finally gave coach Brian Schmetzer the contract extension that was overdue.
Thanks in part to Tom Brady, Tampa becomes the first Super Bowl host city to have its own team. And it’s only the latest success for the once-moribund sports market.
Given the pending tumult in big-time college sports, coupled with his history of dubious decisions, Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott has taken the hints.
At the heart of the Capitol insurrection was racism. Pete Carroll in August had some strong words about who’s accountable for that in our culture. Time for a re-visit.
The Packers’ domination of the Rams showed what a Super Bowl offense looks like. Perhaps Pete Carroll will hire an offensive coordinator who saw that game, and took notes.
Russell Wilson wants to be the greatest of all-time. Pete Carroll is good with winning games 17-14. In the middle will be the Seahawks’ new offensive coordinator. Fun.