In all of college football, there’s no place quite like Nebraska, where fans kill you with kindness, and the players, well . . .
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 the regular-season opener, the Seahawks wound up on the wrong of the score — and on the wrong end of history — as they failed to recover fast enough from a sloppy, inept first half Sunday in San Francisco.
Steve Rudman and Art Thiel of SPNW discuss, debate and mull over Washington’s 40-32 victory over the University of Hawaii on Saturday at Husky Stadium.
The 49ers have a new staff, the Seahawks have a new near-everything else, so the new NFL season starts with a cringe at Candlestick.
Head coaches for Seahawks, 49ers bring their personal dismay with one another to spice up the tepid NFC West.
No team that recently was 0-12 should take any foe lightly, but Sarkisian is counting on a near upset by Eastern to be a “teaching moment,” as in, ‘You’re not that good.”
Poor results so far from the offensive line looks bad, but was part of the plan that has more to do with 2012 than 2011.
Yes, the GM has made mistakes, but considering the franchise’s obstacles, he deserved the contract extension he received Wednesday.
After years of big-boy pummelings in the non-conference schedule, Sarkisian defends the home opener against Eastern Washington.
Talk grows that Mariners may have a surplus at some positions. But before they make another trading mistake, they need to give Ichiro’s time to youngsters.