Head in the Game, Lions Logo, Alex-Rod: A Link List!
Hey, where’s the AIG facade? They’re changing the company name… The Onion on the Morning After Burrito, the contraceptimelt… Open up borders to skilled immigrants – opinion pieces in the Wall Street...
View ArticleCollege Basketball Hot Seat: Billy Clyde, from this distance
Man, he must have really acted like a jackass to get the Kentucky fans to throw him off the lawn in the Bluegrass State. Billy Clyde Gillispie says his fate is out of his hands, ridiculous rumors are...
View ArticleWhy Wouldn’t Calipari Go to Kentucky
When I wrote the profiles of hot coaching candidates, there is one thing I didn’t think of – the dislike of Coach Billy Clyde Gillispie in Kentucky. So once he was fired, if any school was going to...
View ArticleArizona’s Plan D, E, F…
The University of Arizona is having a hard time filling that coaching job in the Pac-10, and I have no idea why. The Wildcats have a solid name, solid tradition… though following a coaching legend –...
View ArticleNot with bang but a with a mewl + Sports Links
The U.S. Men’s National Soccer team has taken their second loss in the Confederations Cup in South Africa, a 0-3 stomping that featured another red card (this time Sascha Klejstan was sent off; Ricardo...
View ArticleA Few Thoughts on John Calipari
(Pico’s note: this is by Raycroft, the head and Reverend of the Church of Bracketology.) What a strange couple of weeks in College Hoops have just passed. I am not even going to touch the Pitino story....
View ArticleLinks: College Football’s Opening Day
Levi Johnston dishes on life with Sarah Palin and speaks ill of her marriage to Todd in a Vanity fair article – wow, kid, milk that gossip… The US Senate, with less nepotism… Brazil’s racial problems...
View Article2010 Coaching Hot Seat: Hawai’i's Bob Nash fired
Bob Nash, longtime player and assistant coach for the Rainbows (or Warriors, as they call themselves now), was 34-56 in his 3 seasons as head coach. Links Pomeroy Page Honolulu Advertiser: Nash fired...
View Article2010 Coaching Carousel: More teams hand out pinkslips
An update on the coaches on the hot seat: Auburn‘s Jeff Lebo, after a 15-17 season, is gone. Oregon‘s Ernie Kent has told his players that he is not returning. Iowa‘s Todd Lickliter might “resign.”...
View ArticleErnie Kent let go at Oregon: link to press conference
He may have lost a bunch of games in the last few years, but he’s not a bad gamble for a school who might like to pick up some Chicago-area talent… youth and lax defensive principles did his team in....
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