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Deadspin Awards: Most Insane Coach
The Deadspin Awards are this month, and we need our readers to decide the winners of these prestigious honors. Today, we ask you to help us determine the answer to an important question: Who is the most insane coach of them all?...

Orlando Magic Head Coach Scott Skiles Unexpectedly Resigns
Orlando Magic head coach Scott Skiles has suddenly resigned, according to the team: ...

What The Hell Is Dwane Casey Doing?
Raptors head coach Dwane Casey has been put in an extremely unenviable position as he tries to guide his team to the Eastern Conference Finals. Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan have had their abilities banished to the Negative Zone, Jonas Valanciunas is out with a knee injury, and his most reliable scor...

Taurean Green's Own Coach Tried To Fight Him
AEK assistants hustled Taurean Green to the locker room after an irate Jure Zdovc came after the former Florida Gators star as he sat on the bench, nearly striking Green....

George Karl Says The Kings Were As Toxic As They Seemed
This might be counterintuitive, but I wish the Kings had been a little better or a lot worse. They won just few enough games to not matter, and did so boringly, and that’s a shame: This was one of the most dysfunctional seasons in recent memory, and even though everyone knew it, I’m not sure it gets...

Los Angeles Lakers Hire Luke Walton As Head Coach
The Los Angeles Lakers have hired former Lakers player and current top Golden State Warriors assistant Luke Walton as their next head coach, the team announced tonight....

Tom Thibodeau Is The Perfect Coach For The Young Timberwolves
The Minnesota Timberwolves have been flirting with mere mediocrity since Kevin Garnett left town nearly a decade ago. Their highest finish in the Western Conference in the past ten years was a tenth place in 2014, after which they traded Kevin Love and won 16 games the next season....

Are Music Festivals Really All The Same Now?
When Coachella opens its gates at the Empire Polo Club today, it sounds the bugle for Festival Season, now a live-music summer staple from coast to coast. At the time of the first Coachella in 1999, its multi-day, multi-stage format was a novelty to anyone who hadn’t trekked out to a Woodstock anniv...


Princeton Lacrosse Coach Elbows Brown Player During Game
Princeton men’s lacrosse head coach Chris Bates was placed on administrative leave after he bumped an opposing player with his shoulder during Saturday’s game against Brown....

Ladies And Gentlemen, Your 2016 NFL Coaches' Class Photo
The NFL is in Boca Raton this week for its annual meetings, and that means it’s time for the head coaches to get together for their group photo. (Click here for full resolution.) I don’t recognize a lot of these guys! But that’s always how it is with new coaches: you can’t truly get to know their fa...

Referee Gets Fed Up, Walks Off In Middle Of Bayer Leverkusen-Borussia Dortmund Match
Referee Felix Zwayer took his officiating crew off the pitch after Bayer Leverkusen manager Roger Schmidt earned an ejection but refused to leave during today’s match against Dortmund....

OHL Suspends Team Owner After He Fires Coaching Staff For The Second Time This Season
Normally the owners of OHL teams wouldn’t be of note, but Flint Firebirds owner Rolf Nilsen’s handling of his team has been so poor that the league stepped in and took control away from him....

Former Wild Player And His Bunny Call For Mike Yeo's Firing
Former NHL enforcer Zenon Konopka played parts of two seasons in Minnesota under coach Mike Yeo, and by all accounts they weren’t pleasant ones for either man. So take that into account when Konopka, with an assist from Hoppy Konopka, goes public with a call for Yeo’s ouster....

J.B. Bickerstaff Tells Terrence Jones How To Handle "Them Little Motherfuckers"
Here’s a fun, unedited moment from inside the Houston Rockets huddle:...

Junior Hockey Referee Punches Player, Gets Tackled By Coach
A Canadian junior hockey game got a little out of hand when a hit on the goalie led to a line brawl. Things got even further out of hand when one of the referees decided to do some punchin’ of his own. In an unforeseen twist, things calmed down considerably after one of the coaches rushed onto the i...

Titans Hire Ah Who Gives A Shit As Head Coach
Mike Mularkey, who served as the Titans’ interim head coach after the team fired Ken Whisenhunt, will be the new head coach. The team announced the hiring today....

How's Jim Tomsula Doing?
NFL teams are in the process of filling out their coaching staffs, and barring a catastrophe, it appears that Jim Tomsula won’t be a head coach next season. So, uh, where’s he going?...

New Browns Coach Hue Jackson Reportedly Doesn’t Want Johnny Manziel
The Browns will make Hue Jackson their new head coach. The former Bengals offensive coordinator will be Cleveland’s fifth head coach since 2009. According to Mike Silver, the team lured Jackson like a Venus flytrap attracting an insect....

Beware Jeff Jones's Post-Game Handshakes
Old Dominion came away from Ruston tonight with a shocking upset win over Louisiana Tech—the Monarchs’ first road win of the season, and the Bulldogs’ first home loss since 2013. ODU coach Jeff Jones clearly saw someone after the game who needed a celebratory crotchpalm....