The California State University system Tuesday said it is going online in fall. Without students, there’s no football. One affected school is Huskies’ week 2 foe.
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.
The speculations about Jadeveon Clowney’s fate are seemingly endless. One thing seems more certain: The Seahawks have loaded up and are moving on.
Assuming there’s a 2020 season, the Seahawks get five big road trips, four games in the bright lights and three of the lamest December opponents, all in a row.
Nina Thomas, wife of Earl Thomas, was arrested April 13 in Austin, TX., after threatening the former Seahawks star with a gun after catching him with other women.
The fans beheld roaring spectacle, the Seahawks made a little history, the officials made a lot of mess and the Packers don’t have the words to explain a preposterous 14-12 defeat.
An MLB game with no fans? Ex-manager Buck Showalter managed one once, and doesn’t recommend it. But plans are moving ahead if the virus moves on.
Why would Seahawks throw away 60% of an O-line that helped make an 11-win season? Because Russell Wilson was sacked 99 times the past two seasons.
Ahead of the posse, NCAA gives up its death grip on amateurism. Players can be paid for use of their names. College sports leaps from 19th century to the 21st.
Before football returns, Pac-12 presidents have said students have to be on campus and safe. On all campuses. But there is no Pac-12 of state governments.
Golf, fishing, boating, hunting and day use of state parks can be resumed May 5, Gov. Jay Inslee announced Monday in an easing of his stay-home proclamation.