Former Seahawks DE Michael Bennett, traded to the Eagles last week, has been charged with injuring an elderly paraplegic security guard after the Super Bowl in Houston.
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.
Richard Sherman was criticized for taking the first offer, but since he had no offer from Seattle and two surgeries, he couldn’t risk losing the 49ers.
A changed lineup at sports radio KJR includes Mike Gastineau, returning for a three-month stint as the station rallies after the departure of Mitch Levy.
No first-year coach in Washington’s men’s hoops history has pulled off a quicker turnaround than Mike Hopkins, who almost can’t believe it himself.
Randomness abounds in the NCAA tournament, and ineptness prevails in the West — except for Gonzaga, which suddenly looks coherent while the field indulges in madness.
If you’re going to play fast and loose with the rules, at least win. But Pac-12 hoops went 0-3 in the NCAA tourney’s first round. Disorganized crime.
Biggest Seattle news on the second day of free agency was a tweet saying Seahawks are talking about trading Earl Thomas for a first- and a third-round pick.
Departures outstripped arrivals in the first day of NFL free agency, but the Seahawks’ long-term strategy pivots on keeping Earl Thomas signed and happy.
The report that GM John Schneider declined to match 49ers’ offer to Sherman tells all about how urgently the Seahawks had to move on from their broken D.
Richard Sherman played as well as he talked, which is saying much. Besides the salary cap and injuries, he probably talked his way out of town too.