After leading the NFL in rushing last season, the Seahawks plan to go to their running backs even more this seson — through the air.
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.
Tim Beckham was caught using a prohibited steroid and was suspended for 80 games, ending his disappointing season with the Mariners.
In the small picture, the Mariners were no-hit by a stiff. In the big picture, big data and technology have screwed up MLB. And the NFL starts Thursday.
After attending the funeral in Virginia of his grandfather Friday, Seahawks QB Russell Wilson jetted back to Bothell High School Saturday. Amazingly, he did well.
L.J. Collier has a rare foot sprain that will keep him out a while. And the Seahawks had their first training camp fight. Jarran Reed and Ethan Pocic were booted.
The Mariners traded Mike Leake, Roenis Elias and Hunter Strickland for not a lot in return. Too many tanking teams are drying up the market.
DE L.J. Collier was the first casualty of Seahawks’ camp with a sprained ankle. But since he was a first-round pick, the ghosts of past drafts lurked in the minds of longtimers.
After the sour exits of Marshawn Lynch, Richard Sherman and Earl Thomas, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll was magnum giddy upon the well-paid return of Bobby Wagner.
Representing himself in negotiations with the Seahawks, Bobby Wagner did well: A three-year extension worth up to $54 million, with $40.2 million guaranteed.
First-day Seahawks highlights: A holdout by Bobby Wagner, a rude break-up explainer on ESPN by Earl Thomas and a cluster regarding Jarran Reed’s suspension. Fun.