Golden Tate suddenly becomes the focus of national controversy and owns up to “hurt feelings” over the blistering he’s taking from critics of his decisive play against Green Bay.
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 owner Paul Allen isn’t going rogue on his NFL brethren about the referee labor dispute. Doesn’t he know if there’s no settlement, the terrorists win?
By a 6-2 vote, the Seattle City Council Monday afternoon approved as expected the amended memorandum of understanding with Chris Hansen that advances his proposal to build a $500 million basketball/hockey area in SoDo. Council members Richard Conlin and Nick Lacata voted no, and Tom Rasmussen was in Copenhagen on business.
The NFL’s showcase is a good time for the Seahawks coach to let QB Russell Wilson and the offense clear its throat for a little and singing.
The Sounders let the last, best chance to catch San Jose slip away with a curiously lame first half that led to a 2-1 defeat and an MLS season sweep by the Quakes.
A moment rare for Seattle sports fans Saturday: Nearly simultaneous sports events in the adjacent facilities in SoDo. No injuries have been reported.
The Seahawks and Packers have cross-pollinated sufficiently to be nearly the same sort of team, except the Packers are better. But nobody is better on Monday night than Seattle.
How does the NFL get away with disrespecting its own game while demanding the rest of the sports word offer fealty? Because it’s the NFL, where hubris is now an art form.
Washington’s Steve Sarkisian joins with other college coaches trying to keep injury news quiet. How does that work when every student/fan/gambler can be a media publisher?
Uncommonly fierce play by the Seahawks, including WR Golden Tate, crushed the Cowboys and erased many of the question marks from the opening loss in Arizona.