It is unfortunately evident that we must make a change. I thought it would be best to do it immediately after today’s result so Gus can step away, relax and regroup with his family during the Christmas and holiday season. | | | | | Who gets the final word? (Keith Allison/Flickr) | | | | | | “It is unfortunately evident that we must make a change. I thought it would be best to do it immediately after today’s result so Gus can step away, relax and regroup with his family during the Christmas and holiday season.”
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| | rantnrave:// If the NFL is relying on secret officials to help their referees make better calls on the field, is that so wrong? In a vacuum, if replay officials are giving refs real-time advice through their wireless headsets, as former officiating czar MIKE PEREIRA alleges but the NFL has not refuted or confirmed, then it should be hailed as a sign of progress. Finally, technology is helping erode human error. I can see how coaches and teams would be unhappy with that, however. They probably want to know who to hold accountable and how to adjust their gamesmanship for those people too. For fans, the question is simple: Do the ends justify the means? If the result is better officiating, even if surreptitiously, then yes they do. Still, transparency never hurt anybody. And the NFL shouldn’t be toying around with public impressions right now, considering the medley of PR problems they've had recently. With unaccounted for and unseen voices advising refs, how soon before the conspiracy theories start?… I never got why some players get more votes every year they are on the baseball HALL OF FAME ballot. To me, entry into that institution is an absolutism. You’re a Hall of Famer or you’re not. TIM RAINES is. It’s great he’s getting more votes now in his last year on the ballot but they should have come earlier… Does anyone find marginal advantages in college football better than NICK SABAN? He can hire STEVE SARKISIAN – who was fired at USC last year for alcohol abuse – when most programs would stay far away from him because Saban has the power and job certainty that no one else does. Saban surely knows the value of having overqualified coaches on his staff. Look how good a job LANE KIFFIN performed as the OC at ALABAMA. Now it’s Sarkisian’s turn in the job. While SEC and BIG TEN schools pay large sums for coordinators, Saban can afford to find them on the cheap… Another strike against football: It’s the reason we’re not living in a JETSONS world already, if you believe tweeting astrophysicists… This is a feel-good story. JERRY KILL, the former MINNESOTA coach whose career was thought to have ended abruptly last year because of epilepsy, is back. He’ll be the new offensive coordinator at RUTGERS. Let’s hope he can remain healthy… The term sheet of the NBA’s new CBA has leaked. Dig into the details or share with your favorite NBA nerd... How is your fantasy team doing? | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| The killings of Joe McKnight and Will Smith, two famous football players, cast light on New Orleans’ ghastly, rotten core. | | |
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| Collegiate gamers are not bound by the same rules as traditional student-athletes, suggesting there’s another way to approach amateurism. | | |
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| The Van Winkle family still struggles with the 2013 death of husband and father Kyle, who was killed outside Arrowhead Stadium and has become a symbol of an alarming problem. | | |
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| The sport of ice swimming, done in water about 41 degrees or less, is attracting interest in spite of its dangers, or perhaps because of them. | | |
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| No other signature sneaker captured the excitement and the whirlwind of a basketball player's arrival better than Allen Iverson's Questions. | | |
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| The Antarctic iteration of the prestigious 4 Deserts race series is called “The Last Desert.” For a company that specializes in putting on endurance challenges in extreme, arid climates all over the world, a race in the world’s largest, most distant desert feels like a necessary culmination. | | |
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| Parents who move around the world to advance their child’s future in sports are taking big risks in real estate. | | |
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| I am an OU alum. But with Joe Mixon on the roster, I have been unable to feel positively about the football team.Before he played a down of football in Norman, he assaulted a woman at a restaurant. There were witnesses, there’s a damning video that has finally surfaced. | | |
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| Miles, 35, is hard to track down these days. Attempts to contact him turn into dead ends. If he was to make a public appearance, this would not be the place, not with his personal belongings spread across an expo center in flea-market fashion. | | |
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| As of this morning, Ryan Thibodaux’s invaluable Hall of Fame election tracker has the results of 44 ballots up, representing about a tenth the total number of ballots expected to be cast by veteran baseball writers this year. | | |
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| Beneath the brotherhood and bonhomie, is surfing tinged with a race problem? Tetsuhiko Endo is ready to ask questions. | | |
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| After going public with allegations against her instructor, ballerina Lissa Curtis was unwittingly —and uncomfortably — thrust into the role of a spokesperson for sexual assault survivors. What her struggles offstage reveal about coming forward in 2016. | | |
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| Playing in China earns you many millions but aged 25 Oscar is leaving Chelsea for a league of lower standard than the MLS and surely some players will resist wasting their careers. | | |
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| The Orange County Register |
| At 36, Walton is actually the youngest head coach in the NBA. Among his peers, he is far from alone in trying to find ways to preserve his health. The coaching lifestyle tests endurance and mental toughness, just as it does for players. Although most coaches have access to the same science, equipment and training staffs as players, they are typically left to their own devices when it comes to taking care of themselves. | | |
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| DeMarcus Cousins, the top player for the Sacramento Kings basketball team, towered over Bee columnist Andy Furillo as he shouted profanities Dec. 12. It was just his most recent confrontation with a journalist. Cousins also has refused to talk to the media post-game if a reporter he doesn’t like is in the media scrum. | | |
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| Linebacker urges there is still much to do and a long way to go in the city of Flint | | |
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| The biggest question in New York sports media has to be answered in the next year: Who will replace Mike Francesa? “Mike is certainly an icon and, you can’t replace someone at that level." | | |
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| IPOs? Probably not this year, but growth is the obsession at CAA, which is exploring a China deal, and WME-IMG, whose leaders know that owning content means never getting fired, writes 'Powerhouse' author James Andrew Miller. | | |
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| The 43-year-old place-kicker, who has built a Hall of Fame career on both sides of the Patriots-Colts divide, has had to tackle a lot more than Herschel Walker on his march toward Canton. | | |
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| Brin-Jonathan Butler followed Ernest Hemingway’s path and even met the old man from “The Old Man and the Sea.” He now teaches boxing in Central Park. | | |
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