The Cougars are ranked 14th and the Huskies 15th, but the Pac-12’s handling of a controversy involving a replay non-call is just plain rank. Looking at you, Commissioner Larry Scott.
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 Huskies started out as if their hearts were left in Autzen Stadium, but rallied behind a stout defense to prevail over Colorado despite the absence of rushing leader Myles Gaskin.
Paul Allen was the ideal sports-team owner — smart enough to know he wasn’t smart enough. He hired the best and backed off. Carroll/Schneider have to wonder if good times are over.
Paul Allen, Pete Carroll and Marshawn Lynch seem vastly different, but all share the virtue of limitlessness. Here’s hoping Seattle sports fans appreciate their good fortune.
Paul Allen did many more important things than save the Seahawks, but his sports legacy of success has done much to enhance life in his hometown.
Embraced by the international sellout crowd at Wembley Stadium, the Seahawks responded with wall-to-wall dominance in a 27-3 win over the Raiders that wasn’t that close.
In giving up 468 yards to the Rams, the Seahawks gave too much cushion to LA receivers, then missed some tackles. Welcome to life without Earl Thomas.
The games in London are big, but the story Sunday is the first meet between Marshawn Lynch and his old team. Doug Baldwin explains the hold Lynch had on his teammates.
For $70 million in private funds, developers of the arena proposed a three-rink hockey practice facility for sagging Northgate Mall. And it’s not part of the $750 million arena budget.
A big underdog at home, the Seahawks did nearly everything well enough to upset the Los Angeles Rams. A final penalty dictated a loss, but the game was anything but a failure.