Jackson started 14 games in 2011 for the Seahawks, then came back for three seasons to back up Russell Wilson. He was killed Sunday in a one-car accident in his native Alabama.
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 XFL announced Friday it was quitting operations, with no inkling of a 2021 re-start, in the wake of the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus shutdown.
MLB is floating an idea about playing, starting in May, all in Arizona, to out-smart the coronavirus. But so much can go so wrong, and MLB isn’t Navy SEAL Team 6.
When Trump called sports commissioners, it wasn’t out of concern. He wants something. My guess: He wants them on his side when he says, “Go.” Don’t — listen to the pros.
A survey of NCAA athletics directors says they fear losing up to 20 percent of revenues because of COVID-19. How about using this downtime to re-think the enterprise?
Seahawks cut TE Ed Dickson and CB Tedric Thompson, saving $5.1 million under the salary cap. Maybe a big move is imminent. And the NFL approved a 7th playoff spot.
Player, assistant coach and head coach for 386 Washington Huskies football games, Jim Lambright, 77, died Sunday. He may have been the toughest guy in every one.
Lots of news in the world of shutdown sports, including a decision to put a hospital in the Clink’s event center, and a big gift to the ‘hood by Sounders owner Adrian Hanauer.
As expected, Germain Ifedi left the Seahawks in free agency, but received only a one-year deal from the Bears. Appropriately, they have left his long-term future on hold.
A redshirt senior and starting safety, Bryce Beekman was found dead in his apartment by police responding to a report of “breathing problems.” No details yet about cause.