Chris Hansen has done a good job with transparency about his arena plan. But he can do a better job answering the rich-guy question. Vote here on how you feel about the financial proposal.
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.
Following King County Tuesday, Chris Hansen was quizzed by City Council Wednesday. One thing needs to be dropped from the agenda: KeyArena, for anything other than temp home.
Former city council member Peter Steinbrueck claims arena site in SoDo violates land-use laws, which the mayor refuted; two King County council members hinted at wanting a public vote
City land-use law would be violated by the plan to put a basketball/hockey arena on the SoDo site where developer Chris Hansen has purchased land, according to a former Seattle city councilman who helped draft the legislation. Holding up a 68-page document created by the city council on June 12, 2000, to a meet of
A return to form by Felix Hernandez, a stout ninth by Tom Wilhelmsen, and an easy single by Justin Smoak gave the Mariners and implausible game and series over the Giants.
The street party in support of the arena project was a well-orchestrated success that sent an emotional message to council members who have to use heads as well as hearts.
Brian Banks, the exonerated one, had his first practice in a pro football helmet and jersey. Never has there been a greater appreciation.
Can’t cheer for the Thunder or the Heat in NBA Finals? Well, Sonics fans, let your imaginations run a little with this guide.
Dodgers star Ethier’s game-deciding grand slam is a reminder of what the Mariners still lack — a scary dude in the middle of the lineup.
Every Sonics fan is fully entitled to rage against OKC’s success in the NBA Finals, but keep in mind the deed we are prepared to do to another town.