Russell Wilson will get his record contract, as a Seahawk or elsewhere. The trick is for Pete Carroll to persuade him he can be the greatest winner ever in Seattle.
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.
UCLA gymnast Katelyn Ohashi, formerly of Newcastle, reached the acme of athleticism and enthusiasm. It took leaving the Olympics fast track to do it.
First 2 rounds of NFL playoffs showed defense and rushing still matter. Seahawks need upgrades on D-line to keep 10-6 from turning into 6-10.
The Seahawks signed free agent kicker Sam Ficken, 26, as a candidate to replace Sebastian Janikowski, who limped off the field Saturday with a hamstring injury.
Alabama’s No. 2 QB, Jalen Hurts, is contemplating free agency, the same idea that brought Minshew to Washington State. Whaddaya think, Chris Petersen?
Controversy has attended much of Gary Bettman’s term as NHL commissioner. In town to informally christen the latest NHL expansion franchise, he was not booed.
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll called criticisms of playcalling in loss at Dallas “garbage,” saying injuries to Fluker and Sweezy were larger in bringing on season’s end.
The Seahawks played with a diminished Shaquill Griffin, and waited too long to move to the passing game. The season-ending loss was mostly on the coaches.
Since January, the Seahawks have lost an entire starting secondary to the injured list. But Pete Carroll is quick to dismiss vulnerability for a road playoff game.
Seahawks’ Carroll and Cowboys’ Garrett began their NFL jobs in the same year. Carroll has nine playoff wins, Garrett one. Who needs this game more?