Perhaps the greatest soccer player in U.S. history, Sounders star Clint Dempsey, conceding to age and injuries, said he is retiring after 15 seasons.
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 Urban Meyer debacle reminds again how far away integrity is in the NCAA’s big time. Even “The Bishop,” UW’s Chris Petersen, talks about being busted by NCAA at Boise St.
An actual rushing touchdown by a Seahawks running back, plus some foot feats by Michael Dickson and Sebastian Janikowski, made tolerable a road loss to the Vikings.
The Vikings had the NFL’s top defense last year. The Seahawks are desperate to establish the run in the dress rehearsal game Friday. On the hot seat: RT Germain Ifedi.
Until Michael Dickson gets his nose broken on on a run, he won’t be Jon Ryan, no matter how many of his kicks are downed inside the 10. A reflection on a rare dude.
Robinson Cano had a three-run homer to win the game, but it was Felix Hernandez who kept the Mariners in the game, helping patch a fading rotation.
Some explosive plays set up the Seahawks well early, but red-zone maladies compromised the offense again in a 24-14 loss to the Chargers in Los Angeles.
D.J. Fluker is trying to go against the Seahawks’ recent tradition of whiffing on inexpensive free agents in the O-line. He brings a certain gravitas to the task.
Nearly at death’s door after two bad losses to Texas, Mariners beat Verlander, Cole, Morton and Keuchel to stun the world champs at their home. Palms to foreheads, all.
Much of the Colts’ 19-17 win over the Seahawks was devoted to young players doing foolish things, but Seattle’s opening drive was exactly how Pete Carroll had fantasized.