Neither do panthers. In what I expect to be the last sports firing of 2010, John Fox is officially out as head coach of the Carolina Panthers.
(Hattip: FARK.)
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Cheetahs never win.
Friday, December 31st, 2010Kubiak watch: December 29, 2010.
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010John McClain takes a break from defeating Hans Gruber and his minions to let us know:
That post is timestamped at 12:10 AM this morning. This is the kind of brilliant analysis that passes for sportswriting at a major daily newspaper.
At 12:31 PM, McClain (having finished with Gruber and his minions) tells us:
Meanwhile, Pro Football Talk is repeating speculation that Kubiak will stay, but the Texans will hire…Wade Phillips?! as a defensive coordinator.
A picture is worth a thousand words, so let me just put one here:
And the owner of FireGaryKubiak.com is taking the site down “due to unrelenting hate mail and threats”. I didn’t think Gary Kubiak had that big a family.
TMQ Watch: December 28, 2010.
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010TMQ has his party bus, WCD has our party van. Let’s get this party started, shall we?
Kubiak watch (and other stupid norts spews).
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010One HouChron writer says “Fire him now; don’t let him coach the final game.”
Another HouChron writer says “Firing him now is pointless.”
Meanwhile, the fans are restless and organizing a “Fire Kubiak” rally for Sunday.
And in today’s bulletin from a failing chain of restaurants desperately crying out for relevance, T.G.I. Friday’s is apparently lobbying to have their particular style of bartending (which has a name that I will not dignify by giving it here) made an Olympic sport.
Singularity watch.
Monday, December 27th, 2010Wait, did I say “singularity”? I meant “Singletary”. As in Mike Singletary, out as 49ers coach.
In other firing related news, Gary Kubiak has lost Richard Justice. Not just “fire him”, but “fire him now, before next week’s game”.
TMQ watch: December 21, 2010.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010Instead of a clever introduction to this week’s TMQ, I’m going to give you, my loyal readers, a fitting present for the holiday season. After the jump…
Turtles all the way down.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010I had heard that Mike Leach was being considered for another coaching job. What I didn’t realize was that he was being considered because Maryland fired Ralph Friedgen on Monday (effective after the Terrapins play in the “Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman“).
Friedgen had a 74-50 record, and went 8-4 this year (better than UT did: at least Maryland is going to a bowl), though he also went 2-10 last year. I haven’t checked, but I wonder if the 2-10 record was caused by circumstances beyond Friedgen’s control.
Random notes: December 17, 2010.
Friday, December 17th, 2010I’ve already sent this to Jay G. so he can up the Dead Goblin Count (Edited to add: yeah, me and about 11 other people), but I think it is worth noting here: bad guys try to hold up a jewelry store.
Adding to yesterday’s discussion of Bob Feller, Daring Fireball had a couple of good tributes: here, and here. (Edited to add: even more from Gruber.)
There was a story I wanted to link yesterday, but forgot about: I previously mentioned the case of General John D. Lavelle, and the presidential decision to grant him a posthumous restoration of the star he lost. Unfortunately, that decision seems to have become bogged down in politics. Worse yet, Kissinger seems to be behind this.
Might not hurt to give your Senator a call.
Random notes: December 16, 2010.
Thursday, December 16th, 2010I was tempted to make some play on Bob Feller’s name in the headline, but I figure everyone’s going to be doing that. So here’s your NYT obit link, sans pun.
As I was in the process of composing this post, I found out about the death of Blake Edwards. I expect fuller obits in tomorrow’s papers.
Speaking of the NYT, there’s quite a bit of interesting stuff in today’s paper. Here’s a quick set of links:
Today is the 50th anniversary of the “Park Slope” plane crash: a United Airlines DC-8 and a Lockheed Constellation collided and fell to the ground in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn, killing 134 people. The “City Room” blog has been doing retrospectives on this story for most of the week: the best place to start is probably here, with the “How It Happened” post, and then browse the list of related posts below. It would be nice if the NYT bloggers could tag all the posts on the subject for easy linking…
(Edited to add: for some reason, the tags were not showing up for me earlier in Firefox 3.6, but they are now: this link will show all the posts tagged “Park Slope Plane Crash”.)
There’s also a retrospective on the murder of Ken Rex McElroy in Skidmore, Missouri “nearly” 30 years ago. The hook here is that the county prosecutor, who was just starting the job at the time of the murder, is now leaving office, and there still haven’t been any prosecutions.
There’s also a pretty shallow article on the rise of home science labs. I say “shallow” because the article is basically “Oh, look at all this cool stuff computerization has made affordable” and doesn’t cover any of the issues around home labs and amateur science experimentation; the CPSIA and science kits for kids, laws in some states (like Texas) restricting the purchase of “chemical glassware”, BATFE and the war on high-power rocketry, or the CPSC’s attempt to shut down sales of chemicals for home experimentation, among other issues.
How bad is the California Institute of Technology basketball team?
In local news, I would have liked to be a fly on the wall for this conversation at the Hays County sheriff’s office: “So let me get this straight: you lost the interview with the victim.”
Jack Shafer on the nutmeg scare. I think many of the commenters are missing a key point: shouldn’t we be happy that kids these days are still reading the classics
TMQ watch: December 14, 2010.
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010Jingle Bells!
Haynesworth smells!
Texans laid an egg!
Bears-mobile lost a wheel
and the Giants got away! Hey!
Let’s open the TMQ Tupperware and see what’s inside.
TMQ watch: December 7, 2010.
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010What’s in store for us in this week’s exciting TMQ column? Let’s take the shiny wrapping paper off and see, shall we? (As a side note, at least TMQ doesn’t have a giant bow on the top. Speaking of which, has Lexus stopped doing the “December to Remember” commercials? I haven’t seen one this year. Kia, yes; Lexus, no. Wonder what that says about the economy. But I digress.)
Gone…gone…he ducked back down the alley…
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010Josh McDaniels. No longer a Bronco, perhaps still a gentleman.
Is it just me?
Monday, December 6th, 2010
Or does Tony Dungy look like NBC Sports should be paying him in gold-pressed latinum?
UT firing watch.
Monday, December 6th, 2010The Statesman is reporting that two UT football coaches (offensive line coach Mac McWhorter and defensive line coach Mike Tolleson) are retiring, and offensive coordinator Greg Davis has resigned.
The Statesman is also reporting that Greg Davis states he has not resigned, that he says he’s still in discussions with Mack Brown, and that he expects those discussions to resume on Wednesday.
Obit watch.
Monday, December 6th, 2010Don “Dandy Don” Meredith, former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and one of my all time favorite members of the Monday Night Football broadcast team, has passed away.
As Don himself would say, “Turn out the lights, the party’s over…”