Jaden McDaniels, a 6-9 star forward from Federal Way, spurned Kentucky for Washington, where he will team with another top-shelf recruit, 6-9 Isaiah Stewart, in the fall.
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.
Bobby Wagner wants to be the NFL’s highest-paid linebacker, a cost that recently went up. He’s trying an unusual tactic to persuade the Seahawks he’s about more than cash.
Mariners fans seem split on their tolerance for the 2019 plan of voluntary enfeeblement. Is there a way to be something more entertaining than dreary losers? Yes.
Firing of Jets’ general manager AFTER he built the team is a worthy reflection on how well off Seahawks are with Schneider and Carroll. As the club’s own history attests.
Once a two-season starter with the Jets, QB Geno Smith is expected to sign with the Seahawks Wednesday to compete with Paxton Lynch to back up Russell Wilson.
You’ve seen the Mariners go 13-2, then 7-21, including Sunday’s ghastly episode in Boston. Now it’s your turn: Explain here your level of tolerance for deliberately bad ball.
Doug Baldwin failed his physical exam, as did Kam Chancellor. So the Seahawks released Thursday two of the greatest figures in their run to consecutive Super Bowls.
Reports say Seahawks have signed free agent pass rusher Ziggy Ansah, who had shoulder surgery after starring with Lions. A risky, but solid move to replace Frank Clark.
Knowing the post-Maria problems of his native Puerto Rico, manager Alex Cora will skip the White House party for the Red Sox, who now have planes going in different directions.
All eyes at Seahawks’ rookie camp were on D.K. Metcalf, and he didn’t disappoint. He has a long way to go, but he’s already closer to the sun than the rest of us.