Another desperate last-play defensive stand, another pile of injuries, another Seahawks victory — and more testimony that Russell Wilson cures everything.
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.
Injuries abound in the NFL, including among Seahawks and Cowboys, meeting Sunday at the Clink. Two draftees, Jordyn Brooks and Alton Robinson, get their shots.
The Pac-12 reversed itself, saying football is OK now because of better COVID-19 testing. But that doesn’t stop students from infecting players. In one case, fatally.
Mariners won Wednesday to take a home series from the Astros for the first time since 2016. The larger news is that no one got sick, and the Mariners are getting well.
LB Bruce Irvin and CB Marquise Blair were lost for the season with the same knee injury — a torn ACL. So a bad defense gets worse, just in time for the loaded Cowboys.
As happens with Seahawks and Patriots, it came down to the final moments. Sunday, it was Belichick’s turn to flub. The Seattle defense, not Wilson, had the final word.
Russell Wilson finally says the quiet part out loud: “I’m the best quarterback in the NFL.” A well-timed brag to back up on national TV Sunday night against the Patriots.
In one spot, your semi-complete guide to just what the hell has happened, and is happening, in Seattle sports lately, thanks to random calamities, perfidies and ironies.
Pac-12 territory, loaded with twin disasters of fire and disease, gets OKs from two governors to resume football practice. Rule No. 1 was: Let science dictate. Still true?
According to Pete Carroll, credit for some of the smooth first-game execution in Atlanta was because of preseason talks that make the Seahawks “forever a close team.”