The legacy of Paterno upon sports threatens to be “The Sandusky Effect” unless Penn State and college football get serious about accountability.
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.
In his debut as a hoopster, Austin Seferian-Jenkins fouled out without scoring, but that doesn’t tell the story of his contribution to Washington’s runaway win over Stanford.
I depart from sports commentary to call out the the Southlanders, Midwesterners and Easterners who have no idea what they’re talking about when it comes to Seattle drivers and snow.
Washington’s hire of Eric Kiesau of Cal completes Sarkisian’s staff, and raises the stakes all around the wealthy Pac-12 conference.
Backup QB, stuck behind standout sophomore Keith Price, was reported to be considering a junior college in Texas.
Loss of Pineda for what could well be “only” a rookie DH puts even more pressure on Mariners to overpay for Fielder, now being courted by AL West rival Rangers.
At season’s midpoint, a weak Pac-12 is ranked ninth among conferences; it may get only one team in the NCAA tourney.
Redhawks finally give Washington a rousing game, sending UW to the line 59 times before running out of players in 91-83 defeat.
Austin Sefarian-Jenkins, who caught 36 passes as a tight end for the football team, will be in uniform Tuesday when Washington plays Seattle U.
The 49ers had seven selections on the All-Pro team. None were QB Alex Smith, and they still won 13 games. The Seahawks can do the same with Jackson.