No one knows better than QB Keith Price that he is playing erratically and tentatively, something he admits is too much whining about what isn’t, rather than dealing with what is.
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.
A record crowd, a giant tifo and Portland’s own-goal embarrassment added to the merriment at the Clink Sunday in the Sounders’ 3-0 victory.
Injuries be damned, Sarkisian has ordered more tackling in practice, which paid off in stuffing Stanford. But now Huskies have to tackle the Jetsons instead of the Flintstones.
The Mariners finished 75-87, last in AL West. The Oakland A’s, with baseball’s smallest payroll, finished first, 94-68. At least the Rangers and Angels can share the shame.
Backup Matt Flynn is on a ‘pitch count,’ says Pete Carroll, meaning the QB’s elbow is too sore to be the starter. But what happens if Wilson can’t go? “Don’t know,” he said. What?
In 19-13 loss to one-time divisional doormat in St. Louis, Seahawks’ offensive failures start at top with playcalling and go all the way to tackle Breno Giacomini, the new Yosemite Sam.
Washington State had another painful lesson Saturday on the way to learning how to win — no celebrating at halftime. The 51-26 win by No. 2 Oregon pounded home the point hard.
Despite a rocky season of injuries and absences, the Storm is in the playoffs. But it drew defending champ Minnesota. Jackson will start, but how much or well she plays is a guess.
Rebounding from a dismal game against Stanford a year ago and a mediocre start this season, Washington shocked the No.8 Cardinal Thursday with a superlative defense. Honest.
The self-implosion by the NFL is over, but there was an important subplot worth noting: In a time of diminishing standards and trust, the refs won one for value and quality.