Don’t expect the Huskies to rescue their woebegone passing attack by calling up the kid receivers. Coach Chris Petersen says they’re not ready.
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.
This wasn’t supposed to be the same caliber Stanford team of years past. Turns out, in a 23-13 loss, the Huskies weren’t even the same Huskies from last week.
Coach Pete Carroll’s conservative approach on a fourth-down call blew up on him, just as higher-risk calls did in the loss to the Saints. “Fatal optimism” is tricky.
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Early showdown in NFC West has Seahawks firing up Ring of Honor induction for Paul Allen, and rare public appearance by Jody Allen. All hands on deck for Rams.
Under a new law, athletes at California colleges can get income for use of their likenesses. But not until 2023, which allows UW’s Petersen time to pay attention.
Demons depart Chris Carson, defense downgrades Cardinals offense to Fair Raid, and Seahawks matters return to normal. Rams Thursday.
Once the Trojans eased up on the Air Raid and became Tailback U again, they scared Washington. But two big plays nearly back to back saved the Huskies.
It’s not true that things always go badly for the Seahawks in the desert. Just seems that way. And now comes Arizona’s Air Raid offense vs. a suspect pass rush.
The career of Felix Hernandez, spectacular and sad, closes out Thursday, both the Mariners and the man himself contributing to the melancholy.