Bad enough that their sixth loss in a row was to the Cougars, but the Huskies had to eat 34 points from Seattle kid C.J. Elleby. A shockingly bad season gets worse.
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.
New reporting by the Wall Street Journal shows the Astros signal-stealing was called “dark arts,” and was more pernicious than the MLB investigation described.
Marco Gonzales is not intimidating, flamboyant or a fluke. What he is to the Mariners is an easy risk worth taking with a contract extension. They have to start somewhere.
The 85th annual MTR Western Sports Star of the Year is Thursday at the Westin Seattle hotel. This year’s emcee is former U.S. Winter Olympics star Apolo Anton Ohno.
Kansas City’s Super Bowl MVP, Patrick Mahomes, blasted the 49ers with 21 points in five minutes. It looked familiar to Seattle fans, who saw Seahawks do nearly the same thing.
His exit from Seattle was unclean, but LG Steve Hutchinson will be welcome in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, where the Seahawks 1st-round pick in 2001 will be enshrined.
This time around, the Super Bowl has one commanding figure: Chiefs coach Andy Reid, perhaps the best coach who’s never done the ring thing. It’s his turn Sunday.
The trade of DE Frank Clark to KC looked good at the time. But as Clark trash-talks his way through Super Bowl week, Seahawks never came close to making up for him.
Innovations combined with his incandescence made Kobe Bryant a star of the world, not just Los Angeles and the NBA. He was just getting started.
The early injury absence of OF Mitch Haniger casts a shadow on the Mariners, who know something about shade. But Jerry’s Kids are about to spring some sunshine, he says.