A month ago, Richard Sherman was confident he would return to the Seahawks. Apparently, he didn’t hear the emergency alarms going off around the team.
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 fact that the Mariners didn’t have a prospect capable of filling in for a while, forcing them to go back to the future with Ichiro, 44, is a sad state of affairs.
Ending weeks of speculation, the Seahawks traded DE Michael Bennett and a 7th round pick to Philly for an obscure receiver and a 5th round pick.
Ben Gamel is hurting, Mitch Haniger is hurting, Guillermo Heredia is recovering and the Mariners have no outfield prospects who are ready. So . . . Ichiro?!
The Sounders’ MLS opener was caught between international matches, so a half-varsity lineup was not enough to prevail against even an expansion team.
In the regular-season finale against Oregon, Huskies came out flat and never recovered, losing 72-64. They meet Oregon State in Pac-12 tourney Wednesday.
GM John Schneider talks about the “fun” challenge of remaking the Seahawks with limited resources, perhaps including a trade of Michael Bennett.
The marketplace shocked even bombastic Tim Leiweke when 30,000 responded in one day to requests for deposits for the potential 2020 arrival of hockey.
Nate Robinson said no to a booster’s offer of $100,000 to play UW football. Years earlier, Hugh McElhenny took the cash. NCAA tradition continues.
Normally, an Olympic trouncing of Canadian curlers would light up America, but the odd win in an odd sport can’t compete with sports oddness elsewhere.