The potential for a sudden return of the NBA should send chills before thrills; the lessons of a relationship gone sour should never be forgotten.
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.
Besides the private money, the proposed arena would be nearly across from Schultz’s Starbucks HQ. Besides that laugher, there’s a serious question: Which sports ticket is sixth in town?
With a trip to the Willamette Valley pending, the Huskies are hanging on to the lead of a shaky Pac-12 Conference. They could use a little reign, man.
Coughlin said loss to Seahawks was “as miserable a feeling as we’ve had.” It would appear the New York Giants coach is over it.
Now that Indianapolis ends the small-city excuse, and New York ends the northern outdoor-game excuse, there’s no logistical reason for Seattle NOT to host a Super Bowl. Your move, Paul Allen.
With a bruised Tony Wroten on the bench for the final seven minutes, Washington pulled it together behind Ross’s 22 points to hold off UCLA 71-69.
Players rapidly came and went off the Huskies’ football commit list, which Sarkisian partly blamed on the influence of Twitter and Facebook. Grumpy old man?
After 21 games of preaching patience, Romar is seeing the payoff — the Huskies are arguably the best team in the Pac-12. Faint praise, yes, but still . . .
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The pitcher in the Montero deal might be a good one, but in recent years that has meant trading such a talent for more bats that fail to produce anything but the worst offense in baseball.