The Raptors lost a howler of a game Monday to the Warriors, but still have two chances to win Canada’s first NBA title. If so, expect Oak View Group’s Tim Leiweke to take a bow.
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.
Besides Larry Scott and a few sports bars, who likes 7:30 p.m. starts for college football? Nobody. Here’s a novel plan that helps players and fans: 9 a.m. kickoffs.
As if being bad wasn’t enough, the Mariners get bad injury news: OF Mitch Haniger hit a foul ball into his groin Thursday and is out indefinitely with a ruptured testicle.
Tyler Lockett and Russell Wilson combined on an astonishing statistical feat in 2018 that is akin to NFL perfection. So the retirement of Doug Baldwin as No. 1 is being well-managed.
The Sonics had themselves a day at the ballpark, celebrating a championship from 40 years ago. The absence of a place and and a franchise made it all the more poignant.
The Mariners off-loaded Jay Bruce and his big contract for a modest prospect, then had the daily horror, a 13-3 loss to the Angels. Bruce is a lucky dude.
The Seahawks have shed a lot of top-end talent, but they chose to keep LB K.J. Wright despite his age and his knee. He tries to explain why.
Hired 11 months ago by NHL Seattle to advise on hockey operations, longtime coach Dave Tippett jumped at the chance to return to the bench by fillng the vacancy in Edmonton.
Who to root for in the championships of the NBA and NHL? The underdog story of the St. Louis Blues beats the same for the Toronto Raptors. Besides, Blue Jays fans suck.
Landing a pair of national top-10 recruits shows that Washington coach Mike Hopkins took seriously the season-ending tourney loss to North Carolina.