His big game against Arizona’s 7-footers was a breakthrough for Noah Dickerson, who was ready to transfer after Lorenzo Romar was fired. Guess who talked him into staying?
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.
You may recall a previous Super Bowl where a late turnover saved the game for the Patriots. This time, Pats were the victims, and Eagles are the champs. Go ahead — smile.
Dominic Green’s 27-foot shot at the buzzer stunned No. 9 Arizona and thrilled a sellout Hec Ed crowd, which embraced the return of Lorenzo Romar, then helped thwart him.
Retired Sen. Slade Gorton, ESPN 710’s John Clayton and Seattle Pacific University’s legendary distance runner Doris Brown Heritage will be honored at the Feb. 8 event.
The Legion of Boom is in tatters, and Earl Thomas floated the idea of a holdout. The money is so large in the Seahawks secondary, a trade may be the best way out.
The 80-62 rout over Washington State Sunday was a milestone in the Huskies’ progression — well played on both ends, and in front of a sold-out house.
GM Jerry Dipoto says there are three distinct competitive tiers in MLB, and the Mariners are in the middle, with a chance to be the Buffalo Bills. That should fire up ticket sales.
Newcomer CF Dee Gordon lit up the room, but GM Jerry Dipoto stridently defended his player development record after a magazine ranked the Mariners farm as worst in MLB.
For years, Edgar Martinez dealt with a vision problem that caused him to flinch at strikes. Yet he still dominated. And he’s cool with the Hall snub. A most remarkable dude.
The Patriots are back. Again. They face in the Super Bowl the Eagles, a nice little team but one that couldn’t beat the fading Seahawks in December. Ho. Hum.