Jim Caldwell remains unemployed, while white candidates with far less successful resumes continue to land coaching jobs. There’s no explaining it away.
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Ben Verlander and Alex Curry rank MLB’s Shortstops and have Houston Astros’ Jeremy Pena & Chicago White Sox Tim Anderson in The Really Good Tier.
New Orleans will reportedly meet with the four-time Pro Bowler on Wednesday.
The Saints reportedly received permission to invite Raiders quarterback Derek Carr for a visit on Wednesday, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.
Carr’s visit to New Orleans comes as the Las Vegas reportedly gave the four-time Pro Bowler permission on Friday to speak with teams that agreed to meet the terms that the team is seeking in a trade, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
In making a trip to the Big Easy, there lies some commonality between Carr and the Saints.
The cornerback detailed why he and Patricia never connected.
Before Darius Slay became a key part of the Eagles’ defense, he spent years trying to prove himself with the Lions. Apparently, that also meant having to prove his talent to his head coach.
Slay’s relationship with former Lions head coach Matt Patricia is well documented, as the two rarely if ever saw eye to eye. That led Detroit to trade the cornerback to Philadelphia after Patricia’s second season with the team.
This week, Slay addressed why he was never able to connect with Patricia in Detroit.
The Rebels coach isn’t wasting any time getting his son noticed by college football programs.
When Lane Kiffin is not recruiting the next greatest athlete to come play for Ole Miss or trolling Alabama’s Nick Saban, he is advocating for his son’s college football future.
On Tuesday, Kiffin tweeted a video of Knox, his middle-school aged son, rolling out to his left and slinging a deep ball down the field to a receiver. But in sharing the video, Kiffin made sure the official Volunteers football account on Twitter did not miss the memo.
One of the cardinal sins of taking a photo with a celebrity or an athlete is not disturbing them while they’re eating dinner.
That one doesn’t apply in this instance, but one of the other cardinal sins is not knowing who you’re taking a photo with. That pitfall of celebrity photo-taking befell these fans who thought they were taking a photo with Boston Celtic Al Horford.
Spoiler alert: it was not Al Horford; it was Nicolas Batum of the Los Angeles Clippers.
Over the weekend, Batum’s Clippers were in the Big Apple to play the Knicks.
An MCL sprain will keep Kevin Durant out of the 2023 NBA All-Star Game on Feb. 19.
Ben Verlander and Alex Curry discuss recent comments from New York Mets owner Steve Cohen on how he is taking heat from other MLB owners for following the rules. Cohen talks about how other owners are taking heat from their fans and he says maybe they should be looking at themselves. Cohen is following the rules and he’s not responsible for how other teams run their clubs.
Kyrie Irving spoke with reporters after his first practice with the Mavericks on Tuesday and cited a lack of “transparency and honesty” from the Nets’ front office as a reason he did not feeling comfortable continuing his career in Brooklyn.
The former first-round pick has been waiting three years to take over as the starting quarterback, and Green Bay has to decide whether to pick up his fifth-year option.
We’re five days away from kickoff at State Farm Stadium in Glendale. There’s a lot of news happening around the league and not just at the Super Bowl. Let’s get right to it …
• Aaron Rodgers told The Pat McAfee Show Tuesday that he’s planning to go on an “isolation retreat,” and hopes he’ll come out of the experience ready to make a decision about his future. Or something like that.