Former UW president, now NCAA chief, will announce Monday harsh punishments for Penn State without giving the school a hearing. When did NCAA become the KGB?
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.
The passionate split in the community was obvious at Thursday’s unusual joint public hearing. Not as obvious was the way to a compromise.
Hanging with Chelsea FC for a little while, the Sounders offered some thrills, then fans had a chance to salute the retiring Roger Levesque.
Seahawks bet a lot on RB Marshawn Lynch ($18 million) delivering big numbers, but they weren’t anticipating numbers above .08. Talk about a burn.
A Seattle attorney and advocate for liberal causes says the proposed SoDo basketball/hockey arena would violate environmental law if the city and county sign a memorandum of agreement with developer Chris Hansen ahead of a study of impacts by the $490 million project. In a letter sent to public officials Friday, Peter Goldman said it
Mariners finished 4-0 loss to Texas with four hitters below .200, the latest being Justin Smoak, who needs to get away from all the helpful advice with a trip to Tacoma.
Panel of seven experts told King County Council the deal from Chris Hansen bears no red flags; one said the arena “should be the least of the port’s concerns.”
Town hall meet illuminates how confused many are about Chris Hansen’s arena proposal, including the Seattle Times.
Chris Hansen attempted again Monday to make clear that his arena proposal guarantees the city and county will receive a rate of return that exceeds the requirement mandated by I-91. On his website, sonicsarena.com, Hansen explains that misunderstanding and miscalculation by the city have obscured the fact that the deal returns seven percent annually to
Since the Mariners were last in the postseason in 2001, nearly every team in baseball has been there. But Wedge and Zduriencik are in a bind to fix what ownership has wrought.