Sportspress Northwest will accompany the Mariners on their season-opening trip to Japan to learn more about the influence the Japanese have on Seattle’s major league franchise.
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.
Former Sonics GM, Volchok died at 95, leaving behind a splendid hoops legacy that was inherited in part by Chris Hansen, the would-be arena-builder. The message: Don’t screw it up.
A free-to-the-public friendly at the Clink Wednesday against Mexican club Jaguares de Chiapas wraps up the exhibition season, and provides a first local look at the many newbies.
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The NBA invested too much in Sacramento and the new union agreement to let the Kings move to Seattle or Los Angeles, markets with their own sets of complications.
Washington’s next victory will make four seasons in a row with 20 wins, a school record. What’s impressive is that they have come in the one-and-done era of freshmen turning pro.
N’Diaye’s breakaway slam ignites Washington and infuriates Arizona’s coaches, but their laments did them little good in the face of complete hoops craftsmanship by the Huskies.
If the key to the arena project is poaching an NBA team, then Chris Hansen needs help. Who better than Microsoft strongman Steve Ballmer?
Everyone thought raising private capital would be the hardest part of creating a new arena, but even after Chris’s Hansen’s contribution, the NBA and NHL are still on the far horizon.
Fifth-year senior didn’t have the career of his dreams, but he could become unique in UW hoops annals — the only Husky in history to have played in four NCAA tournaments.