As always, after the jump, this week’s TMQ…
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TMQ Watch: January 12, 2016.
Wednesday, January 13th, 2016With a rebel yell, they cried “More! More! More!”
Monday, January 11th, 2016More firings, that is.
Some friends of ours who shall remain anonymous to protect their privacy (thank you, anonymous friends!) invited folks over on Saturday to watch the Texans playoff game. I was tied up with other events and arrived with only five minutes left in the game, but based on what I heard from my anonymous friends and Lawrence (and what I observed personally in that five minutes), it was a debacle.
Question: have the Texans gone far enough?
Firings watch (and unrelated note).
Monday, January 11th, 2016Lionel Hollins out as coach of the Nets. The team also “reassigned” General Manager Billy King.
I’ve known about David Bowie for a grand total of five minutes at this point. I want to wait a few hours for the smoke to clear before I post an obit roundup.
Firings and obits: January 7, 2016.
Thursday, January 7th, 2016Lovie Smith out as coach of hapless the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 8-24 in two seasons.
TMQ Watch: January 5, 2016.
Wednesday, January 6th, 2016Happy 2016. After the jump, this week’s TMQ…
More blood, more water.
Monday, January 4th, 2016Tom Coughlin out as head coach of the New York Football Giants. ESPN. It seems that this is being spun as a resignation, though I suspect it was more “mutual agreement”.
The Tennessee Titans are “not renewing the contract” of general manager Ruston Webster. You may recall that they fired head coach Ken Whisenhunt in November.
The Chargers have fired offensive coordinator Frank Reich, but apparently plan to keep Mike McCoy as head coach.
Blood in the water.
Monday, January 4th, 2016In the immortal words of Snoop, “Damn… you ain’t even wait to get the (expletive deleted) in the house!”
Jim Tomsula out after one season (5-11) with the San Francisco 49ers.
Head coach Mike Pettine and general manager Ray Farmer out in Cleveland.
A Chip off the block…
Tuesday, December 29th, 2015What was TMQ’s belated Christmas present?
Oh, nothing, really. Just Chip Kelly being fired as coach of the Eagles. ESPN. Philly.com.
As you may recall, TMQ has been banging the drum for months now, promoting his expectation that Kelly would go back to coaching college ball after this season. Well, he got the first part of his wish. Now let’s see if he gets the second part; we’re thinking there will be some job openings next Monday, and Kelly might be a good fit for another NFL gig.
TMQ Watch: December 29, 2015.
Tuesday, December 29th, 2015We hope all of our readers had a good Christmas, and that Santa or Krampus brought you everything you wanted. Sadly, Robot Santa Claus failed to bring us everything we wanted, as far too many of our enemies remain alive. Maybe in 2016. Or maybe we should submit our wish list to Morbo.
It looks like TMQ got what he wanted; a Panthers loss. Does this mean what we fear it means? After the jump, this week’s TMQ…
Obit watch: December 28, 2015.
Monday, December 28th, 2015TMQ Watch: December 22, 2015.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015Obit watch: December 23, 2015.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015Joe Jamail, noted Houston attorney.
He was also a major booster, contributor, and power behind the scenes in University of Texas football. Here’s an article from Texas Monthly in 2014 about the relationship between Jamail and UT.
And another TM article (by way of Popehat) profiling Jamail.
Now that’s a eulogy.
TMQ Watch: December 15, 2015.
Tuesday, December 15th, 2015After last week’s “slit your wrists” opening, we were hoping to find something light and funny for this week. We didn’t have much luck, alas.
We did briefly consider doing something with “All I want for Christmas is a goat”. But then we listened to “Holy Night”. Or at least we tried to; we had to shut it off 30 seconds in. With all due respect to ActionAid, they could use this to torture prisoners at Gitmo.
So the heck with trying to find something light and funny. Let’s just jump into this week’s TMQ…
TMQ Watch: December 8, 2015.
Thursday, December 10th, 2015Instead of snark, and before jumping into this week’s TMQ, we wanted to throw up a link to something we found by way of a retweet from Popehat:
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When I tell people the insane details of my childhood, they have the same two questions.
Why in the hell would anyone do this to their own son?
And then …
Why in the hell didn’t anyone put a stop to it?
Please go read this now, if you haven’t already. This week’s TMQ will be here when you return…
TMQ Watch: December 1, 2015.
Thursday, December 3rd, 2015Have you ever had one of those days when you don’t want to even look at the newspaper, or do much of anything except curl up in a ball and shut out the world?
Yeah. Us too. After the jump, this week’s TMQ…