In place of injured Noah Dickerson, junior center Sam Timmins filled in ably to help beat UCLA, aided by a flop that would have made Vlade Divac weep.
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.
His “stewardship” of Sonics tells all that anyone needs to know about what kind of political leader Howard Schultz would make. So does his lousy apology.
Edgar Martinez is to stoic what Robin Williams was to manic. So it look far longer for baseball’s college of cardinals to see what great truths rested in ‘Gar.
Analysis by Associated Press shows NFL’s middle class of players continues to shrink. Not good news for a Seahawks team needing to extend Wilson, Wagner.
A baseball teardown and a litigious throwdown keep general manager Jerry Dipoto the object of Mariners controversy. Then again, the pressure is off until 2021.
In honor of the election of Edgar Martinez to the Hall of Fame, here’s an excerpt from “Out of Left Field” that recounts the most famous play in Seattle sports history.
With 85.4 percent of the vote, Edgar Martinez had one of the great rallies in history to make the Baseball Hall of Fame. Writers, where have you been?
Fate’s cruelties denied the Super Bowl to the more cuddly Chiefs and Saints. We are stuck with the loathsome Patriots and the slightly less odious Rams.
After Kaleb McGary and Greg Gaines each took home a Morris Trophy, the Huskies’ linemen talked about how hard it is financially to stay in school all four years.
Cut by Denver at the end of 2018’s preseason despite being a first-round pick, Paxton Lynch signed with Seahawks to compete for the job of holding Wilson’s tablet.