With two second-half goals in five minutes, the Sounders looked ready to overcome Real Salt Lake’s series advantage. But the dramatic win wasn’t big enough to continue the season and Keller’s career.
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.
Carroll wanted to keep Jackson out against Bengals, but put him in away, and still lost. Now the QB gets to go fulltime against the premier defense of the Dallas Cowboys.
Ducks have won seven in row over Washington and become a national power, thanks to a heavy investment in facilities, a race the Huskies will join after Saturday.
In 42-31 triumph over Arizona, Polk scores five TDs and makes Huskies bowl-eligible, something that didn’t look plausible after a crushing defeat at Stanford.
It’s playoff time, which hasn’t been a good time for the Sounders the past two seasons. The chance to change things begins Saturday in Utah.
No one knows when Jackson is healthy, and no one knows where Whitehurst’s confidence is. Not to worry — Seahawks are only playing the NFL’s No. 2 defense Sunday.
The Stanford beating was so bad that Steve Sarkisian may have the challenge of his Washington coaching career to avoid an upset to 2-5 Arizona Saturday.
As sports reunions go, Sunday’s match between Mike Holmgren’s old team and his new one in Cleveland isn’t such a much. The Seahawks barely recognize themselves.
Stanford’s senior QB is the best in the land, but not so much better than the UW soph QB. An upset of the 7th-ranked Cardinal rests largely with him and an increasingly creative playbook.
San Jose nearly spoiled the celebration, but Montero’s 87th-minute goal kept the party going for 64,160 on a big football day in Seattle.