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Help wanted: Bullpen catcher
Being a Major League catcher is tough. Not only do you have to squat in an uncomfortable position for over an hour everyday for six months while wearing big, heavy pads (the tools of ignorance) in the middle of summer, but you also need to be knowledgeable of your pitching staff and opponents so as ...

When has it EVER been about education, Dabo?
Dabo Swinney, Champion of All Things Amateur, went on a tirade against the current state of the NCAA transfer portal at Clemson’s signing day event earlier today. Swinney made his stance on paying student athletes clear several years ago, when he publicly declared that he would leave coaching if col...

Adam Sandler’s production company is inexplicably making a movie about Sean Payton, starring Kevin James
Hands up, everyone: who out there was asking for a Sean Payton biopic? ...

Capping NCAA coaches’ pay isn’t the answer
Brian Kelly just left a Notre Dame team in playoff contention for $95 million. Lincoln Riley said good-bye to his SEC future and reportedly took $110 millon to attempt to revive a mediocre USC program. Ed Orgeron can sit at home doing nothing but drinking beer and eating gumbo for the next four year...

Mel Tucker's potential $95 million deal is redemption for every Black coach who's ever blown a whistle
Jay-Z once asked, “Would you rather be underpaid or overrated?” For Black coaches, that option has rarely presented itself, as most times they’re both underpaid and underrated. Mel Tucker and Michigan State are about to change that....

Report: College teams pay $500 million in dead money to coaches to <em>not</em> coach anymore
Half a billion dollars....

Seahawks could legit finish last this season
As the NFL regular season approaches, the Seattle Seahawks look to bounce back from what you might call a turbulent offseason....

Don’t hate the Eagles or Pederson ... hate the draft & NFL's stupid, broken system
With the No. 6 pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, the Philadelphia Eagles select…...

One thing is clear: The Doug Pederson era is over in Philadelphia
Yes, he’s the only coach in Eagles history to win a Super Bowl. And the statue of him and Nick Foles calling the “Philly Special” will remain outside Lincoln Financial Field. But Foles is gone, and Doug Pederson must follow him out the door....

Ranking the NFL’s head coaches on the likelihood they’ll be immediately fired Monday
We’re a day away from Bloody Monday in the NFL. Which, side note, sounds a lot scarier than it is....

Jags eyeing Ohio State royalty in Meyer & Day for potential next coach, whether or not it makes any sense
Doug Marrone is still, as these words are being written, head coach of the Jaguars. But that doesn’t figure to be the case for long as Jacksonville wraps up either a 1-15 or 2-14 season, already assured of the No. 1 pick in this year’s NFL Draft....

Brian Kelly and Dabo Swinney should be fired if their jobs are truly about leading and protecting young men
College football coaches love to talk about how their job is to be leaders who earn their astronomical paychecks not only by winning football games, but by molding their players into something better, to guide their growth from high school boys to upstanding men who have learned how to handle the wo...

The 10 best head coaching candidates on the market
We’re rounding the corner to that time of year....

Yep... Bill Belichick's NFL coaching tree is still dead
It’s Trash Talking Tuesday, and today I’m trashing the Bill Belichick coaching tree....

Robert Saleh should be a head coach in the NFL tomorrow
The Rams folded a game against the 49ers at home that could have given them a significant lead in the NFC West. Jared Goff played like a Best Buy store clerk once again, throwing for just 198 yards and two interceptions. So nothing really out of the ordinary here....

Jim Harbaugh and the Detroit Lions need each other
The timing might be a little off, but don’t let that stop you from recognizing that this is a match made in heaven....

NBA players are overwhelming Black, yet the league only has seven Black head coaches
With only a few weeks before NBA training camps begin, and less than two months from a Dec. 22 start date, all of the league’s head coaching vacancies have been officially filled....

Only players, not league rules, can stop NFL owners from racist practices
The “F” in NFL stands for fraud....

Dan Mullen uses Star Wars character to show once again that he isn’t fit to run a college football program
Dan Mullen has been doing the most all of 2020. ...

Dan Mullen is right back to being an unbearable jerk
The big takeaway from No. 10 Florida’s 41-17 rout of Missouri on Saturday night was that Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy is a buffoon. ...