In his first interview since Tyler Hilinski took his own life, Washington State coach Mike Leach said nothing in the quarterback’s behavior indicated mental health issues.
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.
Time to talk ball: Manager Scott Servais joins Art Thiel at the World Trade Center Seattle at 5 p.m. Tuesday for a live Q&A about the 2018 Mariners, including happy hour eats.
In firing Bevell, Cable and Richard, his three key coaching confidants, Pete Carroll took a massive swing to get the Seahawks back where they were. Next come veteran players.
Steve Ballmer says he’s heard nothing about NBA expansion. But he’s also busy looking for a new arena for his Clippers. It won’t be Seattle. But his lease is up in 2024 and . . .
A bigger Stanford team prevailed 73-64 over Washington Saturday, but the Huskies are playing well above the forecasts. Now if coach Mike Hopkins doesn’t screw up . . .
National broadcast legend Keith Jackson, who died Friday at 89, was a Washington State grad who began his career in Seattle, from where he made his mark in Russia.
Doug Baldwin saluted Darrell Bevell and Tom Cable as men and mentors. But Pete Carroll knows the only way to stay ahead of being ordinary is to start with pain and loss.
It’s not about the playcalling. When an offensive coordinator is fired, something isn’t working between the coach and the quarterback.
The nominees have been chosen for honors at the 83rd annual Sports Star of the Year celebration Feb. 8 at the Seattle Sheraton hotel. Public voting is under way.
From international shoplifting to federal felony indictments to bad bowl play, the Pac-12 has taken a pounding. Now a hoops coach is being unkind to his lodge brother.