Decoding the Astros’ Bo Porter Firing, and Figuring Out the Future in Houston
In an alternate timeline in which the stories we told about sports teams were shaped solely by how they fared on the field, the Astros’ 2014 season might be considered a modest success. Coming off...
View ArticleCharlie Weis, College Football’s Most Successful Failure
On Saturday, Kansas was shut out by Texas, 23-0, the Jayhawks’ 41st loss in their last 43 conference games. On Sunday morning, the school announced it had fired coach Charlie Weis, who had overseen a...
View ArticleCoach Boom Finally Goes Bust at UF
To no one’s surprise, Saturday’s 23-20 loss to South Carolina marked the official end of the Will Muschamp era at Florida, a four-year odyssey that will soon be remembered for nothing in particular....
View ArticleThe Pelini Paradox: Why Consistency Doomed the Embattled Nebraska Coach
Nebraska fired Bo Pelini on Sunday, bringing a supremely mismatched marriage to a sudden yet inevitable finish before the situation began to really deteriorate. By pulling the plug when he did,...
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Three’s Company: Florida, Michigan, and Nebraska Enter the Silly Season
For most college football teams, the regular season is over, and for a few of them that means the silly season has just begun. Among the schools searching for new head coaches are three traditional,...
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Lightning Round: Gary Andersen Just Left Stepping-Stone Wisconsin for Dream...
The 2014 college football coaching carousel has included the requisite weirdness, with fans and media tracking athletic directors’ flights, paparazzi taking pictures through living room windows, and a...
View ArticleIt’s Not Him, It’s Them: Manager Bud Black’s Dismissal and the Padres’ Itchy...
If you placed a preseason bet on Bud Black to be the first major league manager fired, the Brewers’ Ron Roenicke robbed you of what would have otherwise been a five-to-one payout on Monday, when the...
View ArticleSweating Off the Hangover in Philly
Conventional wisdom says that right now the best team in baseball is the St. Louis Cardinals, who are five games ahead of any other team and who own baseball’s best run differential. But that’s only...
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Ausmus Space: Inside the Mind of the Tigers’ (Probably) Lame Duck Manager
Last week, reports surfaced that the Detroit Tigers intend to fire manager Brad Ausmus and replace him with a different, presumably less handsome manager. Despite interim GM Al Avila’s reassurance that...
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