Ken Behring, who died last week, did some good works with philanthropy, but did some awful things as Seahawks owner. Ask the man, John Nordstrom, who sold him the team in 1988.
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.
A Mariner had to be picked for the All-Star Game, but Dan Vogelbach is more than a token. He may yet give GM Jerry Dipoto the last word against Cubs GM Theo Epstein.
In a win over home nation France, Reign FC star Megan Rapinoe scored both goals, as she did the previous game against Spain. She’s more than a match for Trump.
“I want the fans to believe this is going to be a championship team in the next few years,” said CEO John Stanton. It would help if there was something to back it up.
The California Assembly is moving on a bill that would compensate the state’s college athletes for use of their likenesses. NCAA prez Mark Emmert says whoa. Please?
Lots of bad baseball represented on Saturday: One legacy (Pilots) and two currents (Mariners, Orioles) make the case that ball is harder than it looks. The music, however, was good.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Seattle Pilots, the Mariners are on their way to replicating the 1969 season. Now that’s dedication to history.
Trade of Encarnacion gets Mariners another marginal prospect. It’s the way of the baseball world: Go Donner Party on the roster, and hope for spring.
Title tTriumphs this week by bedraggled franchises in St. Louis and Toronto reinforce the notion that decades of despair do not last unto infinity. There’s hope for the Mariners.
LT Duane Brown’s claim that the Seahawks have a chance to be NFL’s top offensive line was endorsed by RT Germain Ifedi. Since he’s the weak link, a lot is up to him.