Florida State Fired Bobby Bowden: He Was Graceful Enough to Accept

Published on: 1st December, 2009

Let's cut out all the wish-wash and euphemisms and get straight to the point. Florida State fired Bobby Bowden Monday morning, sacked him, canned him, showed him the door. Pick your phrase. But please don't say Bobby Bowden retired. Because Bobby Bowden did not retire, did not step down.. At ...

Charlie Weis Asked To Clean Office, Stop Using Notre Dame Stationary

Published on: 29th November, 2009

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Following the school's 45-38 loss to Stanford Saturday night, Notre Dame president Father John I. Jenkins has asked head coach Charlie Weis to clean up his office immediately.“While Weis had originally planned a recruiting trip of the West Coast for this week, we have decided it ...

Price Mike Locksley Paid Too Small for His Crime

Published on: 26th October, 2009

I would have written this a few weeks ago if I anticipated its outcome correctly. Obviously, I did not. I thought the University of New Mexico was suspending head coach Mike Locksley as a pretense to fully relieving him of his duties, the standard “We’re suspending you without pay until our ...

I’m Writing about Brett Favre Because I Want To?

Published on: 18th August, 2009

I promised myself last summer that I was not going to write about Brett Favre. I did.It's not that I thought I'd want to write about Brett Favre. The only other time I even sort of wrote about him wasn't really about him—it was about ESPN's media stalk-gala into his every ...

Derrick Thomas a Hall Of Famer Off the Field, Too

Published on: 8th August, 2009

Let me level with you: I don't know how to start this article. I don't. I've thought about it all week, and you know, I just could not figure it out. Maybe I'm just not good enough at what I do, or maybe I'm just not good enough yet, either ...