The Sacramento Kings fired head coach Paul Westphal after a 2-5 start. Westphal’s record was 51-120 over “2+” seasons.
In other news, I guess the pro basketball season has started.
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Firing watch.
Thursday, January 5th, 2012Random notes for January 4, 2012.
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012I’d been sort of vaguely following the LA arson case. I knew that they had arrested some German guy driving a van with Canadian license plates, and apparently he was somehow upset over his mother’s immigration issues or something. I didn’t realize how messed up things were until this morning: not only is Mom an illegal alien, but she’s wanted in Germany on 19 counts of fraud (and apparently Germany has requested extradition). It appears that she ripped off a bunch of renters and landlords (I think the NYT said something about her pocketing security deposits), and failed to pay for her breast augmentation surgery in 2004. And the LAT hints that she may have been in business as a “sensual Tantric masseuse”.
Obit watch: Ronald Searle.
Firing watch: Bears offensive coordinator Mike Martz and quarterbacks coach Shane Day. The Sun-Times seems to be spinning this as “resignations”, but I’ve seen reporting elsewhere that puts it more in the “you can’t fire me, I quit” category.
NYT headline: “Rangers Coach a Conspiracy Theorist“. Awesome. Does he believe the towers were brought down by the burning mind control agents on the airliners? Sadly, no. His conspiracy theory is much more boring: the officials made bad calls in order to make the game go into overtime.
TMQ watch: January 3, 2012.
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012The New Year has begun. Our grand vacation from daily cares is over. And once again, we go back to the TMQ well…
Da Bears!
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012Reports indicate that Jerry Angelo is out as general manager.
If Pro Football Talk is to be believed, Lovie Smith is next out the door.
ETA: Nope, looks like the Bears love Lovie.
The firings will continue until morale improves.
Monday, January 2nd, 2012I had a pretty good day. Bad news: I had to work. Good news: nobody else apparently did. Better news: since nobody else was working, they started letting people (including myself) leave for the day at 11 AM. Even better news: because I left at 11 AM, I was able to spend much of the rest of the day leading my nephews on my sister’s side of the family on a grand expedition. (Slightly bad news: guns were not involved in this expedition. But we had fun anyway.)
The only drawback was that, being on a grand expedition, I wasn’t able to blog the NFL firing news beyond the Rams. Most of these have made FARK, but just for the record:
- Tampa Bay fired everyone just as hard as they could go. They fired old Raheem and they fired Jimmy Lake. And they fired some people that they didn’t even know. (17-31 over three years.)
- Bill Polian out as vice chairman and his son, Chris Polian, out as general manager in Indianapolis. Apparently, according to that article and this one from ESPN, there’s at least a possibility (maybe a strong one) that Jim Caldwell will keep his job as head coach. It looks like Irsay was convinced the main problem with the Colts this year was not having any decent backup for Manning, and that he blames the Polians more than he does Caldwell for that. I’d have to say that seems to be a position that can be defended.
Gee, Officer Kroenke.
Monday, January 2nd, 2012We have our first sports firings of 2012: Steve Spagnuolo and Billy Devaney of the St. Louis Rams.
2-14 this season, and they didn’t even get the first pick in the draft. Spagnuolo was 10-38 over three years.
Brain buckets.
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011I mentioned this in passing in this week’s TMQ thread, but for all of those who don’t read it: my sister has a new post up at the Park City Snowmamas site.
Of course, that’s just my paraphrase of what she’s actually saying. My sister never uses the word “f–k” in conversation. Except for maybe when one of her boys tries to sneak a box of Pop-Tarts or a case of Monster energy drink into the house….
TMQ watch: December 27, 2011.
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011We might as well get down to it. This week: the 2011 TMQ All-Unwanted All-Pros. After the jump…
The OSU Sanction.
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011(I really liked The Eiger Sanction
(And I’m more than a little surprised that there’s been no FARK link yet.)
TMQ watch: December 20, 2011.
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011Oh, look! TMQ got us a Christmas present. To quote John Gruber (who is actually quoting Norm MacDonald): “Happy birthday, Jesus. Hope you like crap.”
After the jump, what we’ve been dreading all year…
Your loser update: week 15.
Sunday, December 18th, 2011What a sorry ass-day in the NFL.
The Colts won, so no chance of an 0-16 team this year.
The Packers lost, which means that we’ll have to suffer through Gregg Easterbrook knowingly and willfully running his false Microsoft Word Autotext item about the G–d—n 1972 Miami Dolphins again.
It is enough to drive a guy to drink. Fortunately, I have a Shiner Holiday Cheer in the fridge to drown my sorrows with.
The Pack is back, baby.
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011Apropos to the comment in this week’s TMQ Watch, “Huts Spencer”, one of our awesome readers, sent us a link to local news coverage of this year’s Packers shareholders meeting.
Thank you, sir!
TMQ watch: December 13, 2011.
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011Before we start in on this week’s TMQ, we wanted to throw up a link to this fine article on the University of Alaska Fairbanks rifle team. Shall Not Be Questioned linked this yesterday, but we didn’t get around to reading the article until we started prepping this week’s TMQ Watch. Now that we have, we commend it to your attention.
And now the jump…
The bloodbath continues.
Monday, December 12th, 2011Rough day for coaches.
Terry Murray out as coach of the Los Angeles Kings. This is a hockey team, by the way.
Also, for the benefit of the Texas Tech fans in my audience (both of them), Lawrence sent along this link to turnover in the coaching ranks.
7-10 split.
Monday, December 12th, 2011Miami Dolphins drop Tony Sparano, at least according to speculation. We should be about 30 minutes into that 4:15 press conference.