Since Jim Harbaugh didn’t clarify what he said when accused of yelling “faggot” during a game two weeks ago, and since the Stanford athletic department would not return my phone calls or emails, I wanted a professional opinion on what the coach uttered. I contacted lipreading translator Consuelo Gonzalez for his professional opinion, and here’s [...]
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Did Stanford’s Jim Harbaugh yell ‘faggot’?
Got an email this morning claiming that Stanford head football coach Jim Harbaugh yelled “faggot” at an official during the Stanford-Notre Dame game on Saturday (which Stanford won). While you can’t hear the audio, it certainly looks like that’s what he’s yelling. Check out the video after the jump at about the 26-second mark. We’re [...]
Oops! Josh McDaniels utters ‘m-fer’ on live TV
Denver Broncos coach Josh McDaniels was not happy that his offense committed three false start penalties on one series in their 26-6 win Thanksgiving night against the New York Giants. So he let them have it and the NFL Network ran it for some reason, since it appeared to be a segment recorded during a [...]
College coaches channel their inner Belichick
Did New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick start a trend with questionable decisions to go for it on fourth down instead of punt? Not in the NFL, but maybe in college football if two calls from Saturday are an indication. And like Belichick’s call, these two also flopped and helped their teams lose. First up [...]
Two bonehead coaches of the week
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 [...]
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. I [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. Share on Facebook
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. Share on Facebook