Art Thiel is a longtime sports columnist in Seattle, for many years at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and now as founding editor at SportsPressNW.com.
Offensive-line failures in pass protection and the run game rippled through everything all season, compromising the skill-positions players' above-average talent.
For Fisch to follow a non-competitive conference loss with the suggestion that UW's financial position is somehow complicit is outlandish. Does that condition help explain how UW lost the Apple Cup to a Washington State program that was orphaned after the Pac-12's demise?
After the game, Geno Smith demonstrated a keener eye for the arched brows of reporters than the alignments of 49ers' defensive backs.
"How many games we lose today?" the Seahawks...
Let's reduce the mystery to an analogy many Seattle-area shoppers can understand: The Mariners are trying to make a tasty meal exclusively from the free-sample stations at Costco. Lingering around the chicken-mint ice cream wagon does not make a worthy dinner.
In terms of pressure on a leader to fix wayward local institutions such as Boeing, Seattle Police or the Mariners, Mike Macdonald was down the list a bit. Then...
The Seahawks under new coach Mike Macdonald open Sunday at home against the Denver Broncos, aka the Russell Wilson Survivors Bowl. Participants are expected to share stories and photos and show scars. The more dramatic story is over at Montlake, where the Huskies opened Saturday with a 35-3 thumping of Weber State of the Big Sky Conference.
If longtime readers sense a repetitive theme here, I wish I could offer otherwise. But the top of club ops is the through-point that explains the mortal embarrassment of being the only MLB team without a World Series appearance.