A day after he said was leaving Huskies, QB Jacob Sirmon changed his mind. Doesn’t change the fact that UW mishandled QB recruiting, and NCAA transfer rules need reform.
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.
The Mariners brought back Ichiro to the clubhouse, giving him an instructor’s job. The club also sent down slumping CF Mallex Smith and called up Braden Bishop from Tacoma.
As if the Cardinals weren’t annoying enough to the Seahawks, Arizona drafted Byron Murphy, the third former Huskies player into their defensive backfield.
Of course he’s too small to play linebacker in the NFL. Just as D.K. Metcalf is too stiff to play WR. But Washington’s Ben Burr-Kirven figures to find a way with the Seahawks.
A whirlwind of trades increased the Seahawks’ draft harvest from four to 11. Here’s a look at each player’s video highlight reel.
Faced with a shirtless D.K. Metcalf at the combine, Pete Carroll responded in kind. The far better deed was drafting Metcalf to give the Seahawks a long-sought big receiver.
Shortly after the draft of WR D.K. Metcalf, WR Doug Baldwin was reported considering retirement due to injuries. Carroll and Schneider didn’t deny the report.
Seahawks used the pick acquired from trade of Frank Clark to replace him with L.J. Collier of TCU, then traded down twice to end up with eight picks for the draft’s final 2 rounds.
From Wilson’s contract to videos and gifts, then to scoring well in the Frank Clark trade, Seahawks are on a roll. Now they need to draft a massive WR who runs a 4.33.
What were the Chiefs thinking? They had to out-bid others for Frank Clark, after the Seahawks shrewdly set the table to harvest first-and second-round picks for their young star.