As expected, the Huskies walked over Portland State 52-13, but Sarkisian’s halftime sideline rant raises the question: Where do his players get their cues?
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.
Revelers gathered at McRory’s in Pioneer Square to celebrate an arena milestone, as Chris Hansen details some of the push-pull with the city council that made for a breakthrough.
Not a surprise, but rookie guard J.R. Sweezy was mauled Sunday by Arizona. Fortunately for the Seahawks, John Moffitt is ready to replace him Sunday against Dallas.
City council’s willingness to stand firm, and Chris Hansen’s willingness to move, helped create a milestone day in progress toward an arena deal that might be a national template.
Russell Okung may play Sunday, but WR Doug Baldwin had his front teeth klcked in and WR Charly Martin is in a hospital with a collapsed lung. Then there’s beat-up Russell Wilson.
Seahawks misfire on four shots for game-winning TD in final minute in 20-16 loss to Arizona, but defense and special teams were as advertised. So was QB Russell Wilson.
Too big. Too fast. Too hot. Too loud. Too bad for the Washington Huskies. The top of the Southeastern Conference, the residence of Louisiana State University of Football, is no place for an average Pac-12 Conference team.
Can the Huskies make it any harder on themselves by playing a night game at LSU in early September? The pressure has Steve Sarkisian turning into ex-Cougars coach Mike Price.
Everywhere he has played, Russell Wilson has been a lightning study and an apt student. Now comes the Ph.D presentation starting Sunday.
Tarvaris Jackson’s struggles on third down were what cashiered him here. Now a rookie, Russell Wilson, must solve the puzzle starting Sunday. Pete Carroll is asking a lot.