Stunning the college football world, Chris Petersen, 55, stepped down as University of Washington football coach. Defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake was appointed his successor.
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.
Since their senior years in college, Russell Wilson and Kirk Cousinis traveled a similar path, but the Vikings QB always has been in Wilson’s shadow. Now come the Monday night lights.
Huskies needed a change of game plan. Cougars stuck to theirs. The result: A 7th consecutive Apple Cup loss for WSU, whose coach, Mike Leach, lashed out at a columnist.
Huskies coach Chris Petersen admits he “has to walk away” shortly after Cougars coach Mike Leach takes to the podium. Imagine if Leach ever beat him. Not happening at this Apple Cup.
A year ago on Monday night at he Clink, the Vikings were nearly shut out. They’re a lot better now. But the Seahawks discovered Sunday in Philly they are a Penny richer.
Coach Chris Petersen said that “a little bit of panic” helped doom the Huskies against Colorado. That speaks to a leadership void among coaches and players.
Big moments from Malik Turner and Rashaad Penny, and a second stout effort by the defense, suggests in win over Eagles that the Seahawks may be more than Russell Wilson.
Skunked in the first half by a bad Colorado defense, the Huskies lost lamely, 20-14, while Oregon fell and the Cougars won despite giving up 29 4th-quarter points.
Win out and the Huskies would be Pac-12’s third-best team. The modest feat would be a whole lot easier if QB Jason Eason knew better how to deal with pass-rush pressure.
Once NFL darlings for beating the Patriots, the Eagles are now stale. Meanwhile, the 8-2 Seahawks continue to make over the secondary. Ugo Amadi, come on up.