We used to hand out a weekly NFL bonehead coach of the week award. This week, college football’s bonehead coach is easy; And the NFL’s wasn’t much harder.
In a road game at Alabama Saturday, Tennessee were within 2 points with about 40 seconds left in the game (this just moments after a successful onsides kick), [...]
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Two bonehead coaches of the week
Sports Tweet: Clueless Coach
I am not the biggest fan of Philadelphia Flyers head coach John Stevens. When the Flyers fired Ken Hitchcock and replaced him with Stevens after a terrible start to the 2006-07 season, I thought it was a panic move. Although Stevens won a championship in the minors, and the Flyers had a fine 2007-08 playoff [...]
Is holding hands ‘hazing’ in football?
What do high school football parents, players and administrators think of gay people? Exhibit No. 692 comes to us from Gateway High School in Aurora, Colo. It seems two players got into a little shoving match at practice recently. As penance, the coach made them run a lap holding hands. Cute, right? They weren’t getting [...]
Hawaii coach suspended for faggot comment
The University of Hawaii handed down a multi-pronged action against football coach Greg McMackin for his “faggot” comment at a Thursday press conference. Among other things, the coach is suspended without pay for 30 days, will have his salary reduced, and will participate in various pro-gay-tolerance initiatives. You can see all the details here.
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Hawaii coach hurls the fag-bomb at Notre Dame
Hawaii head football coach Greg McMackin dropped the f-bomb during a WAC news conference today, referring back to his team’s embarrassing loss to Notre Dame last December.
“I know most of the coaches in the country are rooting for us to beat Notre Dame,” McMackin said. “Charlie gives this talk, ‘We do something special at Notre [...]
Quick hits: Safina, La Russa, Shaq, Sosa
World No. 1 Dinara Safina will play Svetlana Kuznetsova in the French Open final.
St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is suing Twitter over a fake page using his name that he claims damaged his reputation.
Meanwhile on Twitter, Shaquille O’Neal says that he wants Kobe Bryant to win his fourth NBA Championship…which is really just about [...]
Quick hits: Dungy/Vick, Howard Mudd
Colts offensive line coach Howard Mudd (right) is retiring due to a change in pension plans. Mudd has been a long-time friend of Dave Kopay and Jim got to meet him at the Colts’ lone playoff game in January.
Tony Dungy fights against gay rights but helps a dog murderer.
Eighth-seeded Ducks take 2-1 lead over defending [...]
Phil Hendrie: Coach molests Dooleys’ son
Jim and I are huge fans of the Phil Hendrie Show, which is a syndicated radio show. He has done some classic interviews over the years, and they are being replayed via podcast (available through iTunes) every week day. The latest was a classic from 2002 that featured Bobby and Steve Dooley (regulars on the [...]
Teacher fired after field trip to gay strip bar
A what-were-they-thinking? story from Ohio:
A Butler County teacher has resigned after she admitted to taking a group of four female students [who are also cheerleaders] to a gay bar in Dayton. Lori Epperson worked for Butler Tech and taught Marketing at Edgewood High School.
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Kiffin does not-so-full Monte
Since Lane Kiffin arrived at Tennessee, he has made recruiting a focal point of his tenure. Part of that has been accusing other SEC schools of committing violations; Some of it has been him committing violations. Now come stories of Kiffin violating rules of other sorts, but making some gay men salivate with a strip [...]
Please fire Jeff Van Gundy again
Jeff Van Gundy, please shut up.
The former NBA coach and current ESPN and ABC analyst has ruined a perfectly good Sunday of hard-hitting basketball. All I wanted to do during this snowstorm in Atlanta (that’s right, snowstorm in Atlanta!) was relax, stay warm and watch a trifecta of pro basketball.
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Mike Singletary, spelling genious
San Francisco 49ers head coach Mike Singltary, the guy who dropped his pants during a halftime locker room speech last season, is quickly becoming the most entertaining coach in the league. His latest gem will have English teachers everywhere cringing.
He was trying to answer a question from the audience about his commitment to smash-mouth football [...]
Panel discussion in Philadelphia
For those of you in the Philadelphia area, there will be a panel discussion on Feb. 16 about homophobia in athletics. The event is sponsored by Penn Athletes and Allies Tackling Homophobia at the University of Pennsylvania, and the panelists will included coaches and even a former athletic director. More info after the jump.
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Joe Torre hopes players will come out
While Los Angeles Dodgers manager Joe Torre is getting ripped to shreds by the New York media for some things he said in his new book, he gave gay people something to cheer about in an interview he did on Larry King Live last week:
Ventura, Calif., Viewer: Billy Bean, after he retired, he announced he [...]
Coaches wife sues, wants more scoring
Deadspin hit the nail on the head with this one: A headline writers’ dream. Mississippi head men’s basketball coach Andy Kennedy was arrested last month in Cincinnati for allegedly punching a cab driver and yelling racial slurs at him. Kennedy immediately sued the cab driver for defamation. Now his wife, Kimber, is also suing the [...]
