Art Thiel

Thirty years ago this month, Dan Wilson found himself in a squat. As a catcher, this was a professional obligation, not a punishment. What was different about this squat...

The Mariners are offering good baseball in a commanding, no-excuses way that has mostly eluded them for half a century.

Will the Huskies renew the deal, when they could gain more from a sexier non-conference game? If the financial disparity grows, will WSU, 20.5-point underdogs Saturday, want to be part of an inevitable mismatch? 

Centers rarely get love, or even like. It is time.

At the same time the Mariners catcher rides his aircraft carriere derriere to the far horizons of pop culture, he also has become the team anchor. No easy metaphorical feat. For him (or me).

Longtime Mariners fans may recall that Bob Stinson had the best nickname for a catcher in club history. "Scrap Iron" was the starter in the expansion franchise's inaugural game...

This long-awaited attempt to resolve multiple class-action violations of antitrust law by the NCAA and its member schools is considered by some to be the most consequential business development in the history of college sports.

In fairness, any NFL GM in the job 15 years likely has a knucklehead selection or two. And Schneider gets credit for the creation of the Seahawks' Super Bowl teams of 2013 and 2014

The preposterous distance between the Dodgers and the rest of baseball -- the only major North American spectator sport without a serious salary cap -- is like Lewis and Clark arriving at Astoria to discover the Pacific shore was many miles west.

Don't know that anyone has referred to Las Vegas as Baja Seattle. I choose to be the first. Its NFL team, the Raiders, which last won a playoff game in...